[PW] ? Lyrics From Post-Revolutionary War to Pre-Civil War Military Music, Songs etc.

[Elizabeth L. Brown]

Hello,

Try these from American Memory ( http://memory.loc.gov/ ) on the 
Library of Congress Web site ( http://www.loc.gov ):

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sm2html/sm2home.html
from the Music Division at the Library of Congress
"...consists of over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for 
copyright during the years 1820 to 1860. This collection complements 
an earlier American Memory project, Music for the Nation: American 
Sheet Music 1870-1885 as well as the Band Music from the Civil War 
Era and Sheet Music from the Civil War Era."

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amsshtml/amsshome.html
from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
"The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth 
century to the 1880s, although a majority of the song sheets were 
published during the height of the craze, from the 1850s to the 1870s."

A list of all of the sheet music (and song sheet) collections in 
American Memory is here:
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Sheet+Music .

The list also includes a couple more collections that include some 
items from your time period, prepared and put online in cooperation 
with Brown University, "African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920" ( 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/ ) and Duke 
University, "Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920" ( 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html ).

Elsewhere on the Library's Web site, be sure to check out "The 
Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance ( 
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/index.html ).  While there, be 
sure to check out "Volcano of Delight: Historic Sheet Music, 
1800-1922" ( 
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/volcano/volcano-home.html ) , 
a collection of approximately 9,000 items published from 1800 to 
1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920.

Elizabeth L. Brown
Digital Reference Team
The Library of Congress


At 10:59 AM 1/2/2008, you wrote:
>Hello -
>This is my second attempt to post this question as the first one
>apparently never went through.
>Does anyone know of Pre-Civil War collections of military music or
>songs, ca. 1810s to the 1850s. The patron is interested in any lyrics or
>sheet music for the post Revolutionary War up to the 1850s. The patron
>is not interested in the Civil War period.  Thank you in advance.
>Bruce
>thornlowb at ndu.edu
>
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