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- 2000-2002 (Creation)
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Kathleen McMorrow (A2024-02)
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File consists of John Beckwith's research notes and related correspondence on the Colonial Harmonist by Mark Burnham (1832, rev. 1836), which is held in the University of Toronto Music Library. Beckwith's article was published in The Halcyon (newsletter of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) and a revised version, entitled "Mark Burnham and Upper Canada's First Tunebook, Colonial Harmonist," appeared in the University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2 (2002).
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The Halcyon [Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library newsletter] (2001); University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2 (2002): 623-650. Republished in Music Annals: Research and Critical Writings by a Canadian Composer 1973-2014 (Toronto: Institute of Canadian Music, 2022).