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Events 2007-2008 Season
We meet the second Saturday of each month from October through June. The meetings take place at OUR NEW LOCATION Local 802 – Musicians’ Hall Flea market 12:30-1:45 – Great place to find music sheets, tapes, CD’s etc. Program: 1:45 – 3:30PM. Non-member guest fee $10. Membership only $50 per year/single 2007-2008 SEASON
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIETYThe New York Sheet Music Society was established in 1980. It began with a small but dedicated group of collectors, who, through the courtesy of the late Sammy Cahn, president of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, met at One Times Square to exchange sheet music and stories about songwriters, singers, and songs. Now a thriving non-profit corporation, the Society has over 400 members spread across the nation. From the start, NYSMS meetings were lively affairs, and they continue to be. Celebrity drop-ins quickly became one of the Society's attractions.. Many of America's great songwriters have discussed their careers, their collaborators, and their work methods. To hear them perform their hits and tell the stories behind the songs is spellbinding. We also invite the cream of today's biographers and historians to share their insights. These exciting programs are preserved on videotape in our archives. Meetings are usually held on the second Saturday of the month, October through June. Members socialize and buy, sell, and trade sheet music from 12:30 - 1:45p.m. and then the guest program begins. At the end of each season we hold a fund raising luncheon at which the guests of the past year and other celebrities are honored. The songwriters perform their hits and keep us laughing with their anecdotes. A raffle drawing is held and dozens of prizes awarded. A fitting climax to the year! For members who live too far away to attend meetings, our newsletter is the next best thing to being there. Each month there is a detailed account of the last meeting and information about the guest for the coming month. When songwriters are expected, a list of their hit songs is included so that members may bring in music sheets to be autographed. The newsletter also reports on interesting publications, events, exhibits, and the activities of members who perform professionally in the metropolitan area. Collectors are welcome to post announcements of what they are seeking or selling. United in a commitment to American popular song, our members represent every aspect of the music business: writing songs, publishing, promoting, and performing them and preserving both the song sheets and the history that goes with them. We are proud to count among our members authorities on film and show music, ragtime, ethnic songs, nineteenth century and World War I songs; and just about any category you can name. From a mere handful of collectors at the start, the New York Sheet Music Society has swelled its ranks to an enthusiastic and ever-growing membership from all over the continent.
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Music Resource LinksSheet Music American Women in Uniform : http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/index.html -A wonderful site dedicated to Women veterans - illustrations of a well researched collection of Women in the Armed Services in sheet music. Historic American Sheet Music : http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. You can search the huge sheet music data base by subject, title, date, illustrations, even advertisements run on the sheet music! Hula Pages Sheet Music site - a delightful site dedicated to sheet music of Hawaii, great artwork and history.
Lester S. Levy collection at
Eisenhower Library - (at Johns Hopkins
University) http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/index.html - contains over
29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period
1780 to 1960. Images of the cover and each page of music can be retrieved
if the music is in the public domain. Noel Coward website (the Noel Coward Society) - a fascinating site, membership of the Society gives access to a comprehensive onsite archive of information and opinion relating to 'the Master' and back copies of HOME CHAT the Society's printed newsletter, sent regularly to members. The Vincent Motto Music Collection is a remarkably diverse compilation of 35,000 sheets of popular American tunes from the last 150 years. It also includes 500 reference books and assorted materials in different formats. The Collection was donated to the Library by the late Lucy Motto in memory of her husband, Vincent, who died in 1995. "Vince" was an amateur collector who compiled the collection over a 30-year time span following his singing career with Utica and Syracuse bands. http://www.fayettevillefreelibrary.org/motto.htm Parlor Songs MIDI Collection: http://www.parlorsongs.com- musical reminiscences of years gone by. A fascinating site - popular sheet music (& midi files) from the 1800's to the 1920's.
Songdex.net
- NYSMS member Walter
Windsor has established a website that will prove a fountain of information for
anyone devoted to standard popular music - it lists 55,000 songs, offering
titles, alternate titles, years, writers and production sources on each song.
Principally included are the songs of 1900-1960, with some older and newer
titles if they fit the "standard" definition. Plus, a thousand titles have been
designated "Spotlight Songs" for which, at a click of the mouse, you can
see the sheet music cover and hear an excerpt of the music. AND a section
providing biographies on 500 songwriters.
Magazines
Other Music Related Resources Edward A. Berlin's Website of Ragtime and Scholarship - a great resource for Ragtime research. International Movie Database - Filmography search tool : http://us.imdb.com
Johnny Mercer
Educational Archives : http://www.johnnymercer.com
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - Search engine : http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/online.html
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