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Sheet Music - Library of Congress

12 Nov 98 - 04:26 PM (#45140)
Subject: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Alice

I just got this link emailed to me by my friend Norris. Looks promising.
alice in montana

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html

Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
The Library of Congress provides another fine online resource with a new American Sheet Music site. Thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Search by author, title or subject.

12 Nov 98 - 05:02 PM (#45147)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Bruce O.

Thanks Alice, that's a good one.
I found that Henry Clay Work had even written a sequel to "Grandfather's Clock", that I'd never heard of before.
I wish they were all readable, however. Many aren't, even on my reasonably high resolution monitor.

12 Nov 98 - 05:58 PM (#45151)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Chet W.

Alice, I can't get this URL to work. Is it exactly right above? I tried every logical variation I could think of, but no luck.

Chet W.

12 Nov 98 - 06:34 PM (#45158)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Joe Offer

Try it again, Chet. I made it clickable, and it seems to work.
-Joe Offer-

12 Nov 98 - 06:43 PM (#45160)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Bill D

well, I can report that the images in the .tiff format are easy enough to read!..(big, though)..but you need to save them.. and read them with one of the graphics viewers that will handle them..( they give some suggestions on a 'how to' page) I used Thumbs Plus, and CompuPic..I have only just begun to look thru the site...(lots of pics of lots of stuff...!!)

12 Nov 98 - 10:30 PM (#45180)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Snookums

Oh boy!!! Now I know how to entertain myself if mudcat goes down again. Thanks for the tip! Snookums

14 Nov 98 - 07:20 PM (#45415)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Rincon Roy

here's a link giving the scopp on 3 other tiff viewers which plug into browser. (spent the extra $10 to upgrade free CPCview so prints the individual parts direct from the Net without any "downloading, saving, importing to graphic program, etc")

http://www.dot.co.pima.az.us/gis/webdev/tiff.htm

[thanks Alice for the link. besides the vocals, found 53 brass band charts, many of which are arranged for the instrumentation of our local "period" band; and we are playing them! It's just so hard to find (& then decipher)old band arrangements from that time. Again, thanks.]

21 Nov 98 - 11:55 AM (#46365)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: bogus

alos check out their California Folk song collection

28 Nov 98 - 11:25 AM (#47075)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: reposter

repost

07 Jun 04 - 01:05 PM (#1202106)
Subject: RE: Sheet Music - Library of Congress
From: Joe Offer

I've always had trouble making links to sheet music and other information in the American Memory Collection. If you go to a page at American Memory and copy-paste the URL from your browser's address bar, you'll come up with a string of characters eleventy-seven inches long. Jim Dixon heard my cries of anguish, and sent me this: