This collection presents solo violin/fiddle arrangements from the Maggie's Music CD Early American Roots by the Hesperus Early Music Ensemble. It includes a cross-section of popular American instrumental music from before, and just after, the American Revolution, including country dance tunes, improvisations, and shape note hymns. The dance music in this collection represents two basic genres of dance: country dances and cotillions. All the tunes in this book are playable on the standard-tuned fiddle (violin). The tunes have been arranged in the order found on the album as much as possible. Chords are provided to identify the harmonic structure of each piece as well as to give the opportunity for the use of an accompanying instrument, such as the guitar.

 Ça ira       French traditional
 A Sett of Hornpipes       Apollo's Banquet 
 A Sett of Jiggs       Apollo's Banquet, Henry Playford
 Argeers       The Dancing Master 
 Bobbing Joe       The Dancing Master 
 Butter'd Peas       The Fashionable Lady 
 Captain Kidd       Southern Harmony 
 Chelsea Reach       The Dancing Master 
 Childgrove       The Dancing Master 
 Cuckolds All in a Row       The Dancing Masters 
 Daniel Purcell's Ground       The Division Violin 
 Daphne       The Dancing Master 
 Garden Hymn       Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music 
 Johnny Cock the Beaver       The Division Violin
 La Poulle       First Book of Cotillions 
 Lusty Gallant       The Dancing Master 
 Madison's Whim       First Book of Cotillions 
 Nashville       Southern Harmony 
 New Jersey       First Book of Cotillions 
 Parson's Farewell       The Dancing Master 
 Portsmouth       The Dancing Master 
 Rockbridge       Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music
 Rufty Tufty       The Dancing Master 
 Scotch Cap       The Dancing Master
 Staines Morris       The Dancing Master 
 The Ball       First Book of Cotillions 
 The Colly Flower       First Book of Cotillions
 The Killerman       First Book of Cotillions 
 The Merry Milkmaids       The Dancing Master
 The Merry Strollers       First Book of Cotillions 
 The President's March       Philip Phile
 The Spirit of Gambo       Poeticall Musick/Tobias Hume 
 The Swallow       First Book of Cotillions