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Library of Congress Music for the
Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
More than 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the
years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular
choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials
and music for band and orchestra.
African-American
Sheet Music
This collection, selected from the collections of the Brown University Library,
consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through
1920.
Historic
American Sheet Music: 1850-1920
The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet
music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
at Duke University.
The Lester S. Levy Collection
of Sheet Music
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections
at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains
more than 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American Music spanning
the period 1780 to 1960. An image of the cover and each page of music will
be retrievable if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public
domain.
Inventions
of Note: Sheet Music Collection at the MIT Lewis Music Library
Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection was established in 1977
by the Lewis Music Library at MIT. This sheet music collection consists
of popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies as
revealed through song texts and/or cover art. Most items dates from ~1890
to 1920.
This collection includes "... audio samples of music and stories, digital images of rare letters and photographs, and video clips." Access photos, audio , artworks and more from the Folklife Center as well as LC's American Memory Project
Rolling Stone Magazine is an excellent resource for locating contemporary news articles, concert reviews, interviews, advertisements and other porimary documents.