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Jefferson and Music
"The favorite passion of my soul."
--Thomas Jefferson
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For further reading
For the music that Jefferson is known to have heard, see
Jefferson’s Memorandum Books
, Volume 2: index under Music: concerts attended.
Helen Cripe,
Thomas Jefferson and Music
(Charlottesville, 1974)
Books by Ronald R. Kidd
, the leading expert on Jefferson and Music
Thomas Jefferson: Musician and Violinist
by Sandor Salgo