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Revolutionary Music, Clothes, and Lifestyle

MUSIC

Music was such an integral day-to-day part of 18^th 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 18^th Century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnwWP3fOSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmO7rBMdoU