Recordings
Listen to audio recordings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music made by the Colonial Music Institute
Mount Vernon is privately owned and will remain open in the case of a government shutdown.
The Colonial Music Institute (CMI) conducts and promotes research and educational outreach in the fields of early American music and dance.
The CMI is grounded in primary research enlightened by interdisciplinary scholarship, disseminated through scholarly writing, authentic performances, and sound recordings. David Hildebrand, Ginger Hildebrand, the late Kate Van Winkle Keller, and the late Robert M. Keller founded the CMI in 1999. In 2020, the research resources, publications, and additional educational materials were generously donated to the Washington Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.