Thomas Jefferson's Music

The Music Section of Jefferson's Catalogue of 1783 and An Inventory of the Collections of Jefferson Family Music, Appendices I and II of Thomas Jefferson and Music by Helen Cripe (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974), pp. 97-128. Electronic version made with the permission of the University Press of Virginia and the Jefferson Memorial Foundation by Perry Roland, January 1996.

Jefferson's manuscript catalog of the library he collected after he lost his first to fire was dated March 6, 1783. Chapters 35-37 enumerate music he owned (indicated by check-marks in the original and by the equal sign in this transcription), but do not indicate the music from the collection that survives today.

The Monticello Music Collection is the music of the Jefferson family that survives, and represents not only a few items from Jefferson's 1783 catalog, but also the music collected by his daughter and grandchildren. It is on deposit from the Jefferson Memorial Foundation in the Special Collections Department of Alderman Library.

Annotations in Special Collections' copy of Cripe's work are included and marked like so [Spec. Coll.: <annotation text> ].

In the future, hypertext links will be provided for the items listed in Cripe's appendices that also appear in the Alexander Mackay-Smith Collection of instrumental music published before before ca. 1800.

CONTENTS

Catalogue of 1783	Jefferson Family Music
Chap. 35 Chap. 36 Chap. 37	Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5