PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AMERICANA GERMANICA NEW SERIES MONOGRAPHS DEVOTED TO THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE Literary, Linguistic and Other Cultural Relations OF Germany and America OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INSTITUTION OF GERMAN AMERICAN RESEARCH MARION DEXTER LEARNED, DIRECTOR University of Pennsylvania AMERICANA GERMANICA NEW SERIES 1. _Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810._ By Edward Ziegler Davis, Ph. D. 5 p. l., 229 pp. Price $1.65 2. _The Harmony Society._ A Chapter in German American Culture History. By John Archibald Bole, Ph. D. 3 p. p., 176 pp. 30 Illustrations. Price $1.50 3. _Friedrich Schiller in America._ A Contribution to the Literature of the Poet’s Centenary, 1905. By Ellwood Comly Parry, Ph. D. 1 p. p., 116 pp. Price $1.25 4. _The Influence of Salomon Gessner Upon English Literature._ By Bertha Reed. 1 p. p., 118 pp. Price $1.25 5. _The German Settlement Society of Philadelphia and its Colony, Hermann, Missouri._ By William G. Bek. P.p. xi, 182 pp. Price $1.50 6. _Philipp Waldeck’s Diary of the American Revolution._ With Introduction and Photographic Reproductions. By M. D. Learned. 168 pp. Price $1.50 7. _Schwenkfelder Hymnology and the Sources of the First Schwenkfelder Hymn-Book Printed in America._ With Photographic Reproductions. By Allen Anders Seipt, Ph. D. 112 pp. Price $2.00 8. _The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent._ By J. Hanno Deiler. 135 pp. Price $1.25 9. _Early German Music in Philadelphia._ By R. R. Drummond. 88 pp. Price $1.00 Early German Music in Philadelphia Robert Rutherford Drummond, Ph. D. _Sometime Harrison Fellow in Germanics at the University of Pennsylvania; Instructor in German at the University of Maine_ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA D. APPLETON & COMPANY PUBLISHING AGENTS NEW YORK 1910 COPYRIGHTED BY ROBERT R. DRUMMOND 1910 BANGOR, MAINE BANGOR CO-OPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY 1910 TO MY PARENTS FOREWORD In this book I have sought to give a glimpse of the musical life of Philadelphia during the 18th Century, laying especial stress on the secular music, and considering principally the German music produced and performed, and emphasizing the high standard of musical taste at this time.