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Revolutionary Music, Clothes, and Lifestyle
MUSIC
Music was such an integral day-to-day part of 18th century life—particularly for socializing, courting, and political commentary. One of the things Patriots reveled in was taking well-known British melodies and songs and giving them new words that defied and ridiculed the king and his army.
Patriot songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6OfBrbRYuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd-eMYBw_hg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVaCof8UN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVO9svt6hs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPvweB_EPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd-eMYBw_hg&list=PLOTO2mHhrLaXbUBffaqCfC0UTaamTd1TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KcJTP8nW8
Williamsburg Street Musicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7LKBssu4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSfey_6reA
Camp Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-OQc9_Sbw
Fiddle and Tavern Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1PTPVkogU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0H3YRtOm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNOPDVgjYw
Williamsburg Music Master (Harpsichord):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0b9gqDmlEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZA4hlobVvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbZcV58TSPo
Williamsburg Concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31muuJSGp0
DANCING
One of the most delighting facts I discovered when researching PEGGY was the fact George Washington LOVED, I mean LOVED, to dance. A masterful, impressive partner, it was on the dance floor that GW often shed the overwhelming seriousness of his duties and filled with unabashed joy, moving with “great spirit and satisfaction, grace and ease” as his contemporaries noted. Especially in the minuet. I also didn’t realize before that the minuet was a SOLO performance by a couple in front of the entire assembled ball. Learning what a balletic metaphor it was for courtship and what bravery it took to perform the three-minute-plus dance, I made a minuet the centerpiece of Chapter Ten, depicting the Morristown Ball of February 23rd, 1780, and my interpretation of Hamilton and Eliza’s romance.
http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/colonial-life-today/dancing/#g-1009_m-150832641
http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/colonial-life-today/dancing/#g-136_m-150732448
http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/colonial-life-today/dancing/#g-136_m-150837787
The Minuet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPYCuzcJioU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcIfHXKJF4
FASHION
https://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/2017/03/elbows-ankles-and-decolletage-myths-of.html
https://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/2017/06/discomfort-and-discourse-myths-of-18th.html
Getting Dressed in the 18th Century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnwWP3fOSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmO7rBMdoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggvvr_l-U2Q&index=34&list=RD4BDGGlRo3OI
Lady Dunmore’s Ball Gown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucpBsJM-lJo&index=20&list=RD4BDGGlRo3OI
https://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/2017/01/dressing-part-schuyler-family-receipts.html
MARTIAL ARTS IN THE 18TH CENTURY
https://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/2017/01/mansion-mythbusters-never-bring-sword.html
Muskets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=569ItSV64FM
Rifles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONot7ujoxfc
FOOD
Dining at Schuyler Mansion:
http://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/search?q=food
http://www.mountvernon.org/inn/recipes/
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/05/family-dinner-soup-molasses-bread-jeffersons-meringues/
For the Soldiers:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-food-that-fueled-the-american-revolution-25701053/
http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/05/what-did-soldiers-eat-during-the-revolutionary-war.html
https://pafoodways.omeka.net/exhibits/show/table/articles/feeding-revolutionary-war-sold