Review: Historic American Sheet Music

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Book Review| August 01 2017 Review: Historic American Sheet Music Historic American Sheet Music. Molly Bragg, Digital Collections Program Manager, Duke University Libraries. URL: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/ Kristen M. Turner Kristen M. Turner KRISTEN M. TURNER teaches at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on American operatic culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music and the Journal of Musicological Research. Her current project is a monograph on the use of opera in vaudeville and pre–World War I American musical comedies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2017) 70 (2): 565–575. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2017.70.2.565 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kristen M. Turner; Review: Historic American Sheet Music. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2017; 70 (2): 565–575. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2017.70.2.565 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search From medieval manuscripts to parlor songs, musical scores are a popular item for digitization in the United States and Europe. In the United States even libraries with relatively small special collections often hold sheet music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and many institutions have invested in digitizing this music and posting it online, as few of these documents are under copyright. The larger digital repositories for sheet music include African American Sheet Music hosted by Brown University and the Historic Sheet Music Collection on the Library of Congress's website, as well as the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at Johns Hopkins/ Peabody and the Digital Collections Archive of Popular American Music at the University of California, Los Angeles.1 Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music Digital Collection (hereafter HASM) is an archive of 3,042 digitized pieces of sheet music (both popular and classical genres) published in the... You do not currently have access to this content.