Music Resource Links
Sheet Music
American Women in Uniform: 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: 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) 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.
Parlor Songs MIDI Collection: 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.
Vocal Chord Sheet Music Sheet music of your favorite songs creatively arranged to allow singers vocal freedom and flexibility through the support of appealing piano accompaniments.
Magazines
Piano Today is filled with intriguing things to play: great pieces from all eras and styles, jazz arrangements by today's top artists, inside stories, lessons and playing tips, and a whole section just for beginning level. It's a masterpiece of a magazine!
Sheet Music Magazine Imagine, the world's most popular songs with the music and lyrics presented in carefully crafted arrangements with authoritative, concise introductions. That's what you get in every issue of Sheet Music Magazine. Songs of your childhood, of your romances, of your reveries... songs from a golden age by the likes of Cole Porter and the Gershwins, Irving Berlin or Rodgers and Hammerstein... and the latest, most lyrical songs of today... those destined to be the new classics... from superstars like Celine Dion, Garth Brooks and Andrea Bocelli.
Other Music Related Resources
ASCAP www.ascap.com
BMI www.bmi.com
Edward A. Berlin's Website of Ragtime and Scholarship A great resource for Ragtime research. www.edwardaberlin.com
International Movie Database
- Filmography search tool. http://us.imdb.com
Johnny Mercer
Educational Archives Has new pages added. See one HERE. And a different one HERE.
Kohn on Music Licensing A unique website discussing all aspects of Music law
information including the Legal aspects of Webcasting and Music delivery. A NOT TO BE MISSED SITE!
Library Of Congress - Search engine.
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