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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: A.M. Collection: Sheet Music from Duke
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Here's a description from an internal announcement:
The Historic American Sheet Music collection from Duke University's Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library is now a part of
American Memory. This is the fourth collection from
the LC/Ameritech competition to come online.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/
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, which holds an important, representative, and
comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American
sheet music. This selection presents a significant perspective on American
history and culture through a variety of music types including bel canto,
minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political
songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and
musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection
is particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints,
and Civil War songs and music. Also included are piano music of marches,
variations, opera excerpts, and dance music, including waltzes, quadrilles,
polkas, etc. Cover illustrations represent an important, and in some cases
almost unique, source of information for popular contemporary ideas on
politics, patriotism, race, religion, love, and sentiment.
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Elizabeth L. Brown, Reference Librarian, etc.
National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/VC(1330)
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1330
ebro@loc.gov telephone: 202/707-2235
Library of Congress American Memory Home Page:
http://memory.loc.gov/
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