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

[Nina Gilbert]

Just a quick second to Donna's message.  The Lester Levy collection is fantastic in several areas, and much of it can be viewed online.  I made a pilgrimage to that library to look at songs about the Marquis de Lafayette (and to have lunch with Donna!).  Definitely worthwhile.

Nina Gilbert
Education and Community Programs Manager, Boston Lyric Opera
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: dhesson1 <dhesson1 at jhmi.edu>
To: list at project-wombat.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 11:22:32 AM
Subject: Re: [PW] ? Lyrics From Post-Revolutionary War to Pre-Civil War MilitaryMusic, Songs etc.


Hello,
    The one place that I would look into is the Lester S. Levy
 Collection
housed within the the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins
University.  The URL is:
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

According their website:
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000
 pieces
of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980,
 but
its strength is its throrough documentation of nineteenth-century
 American
through popular music. The collection is especially strong in music
 spawned
by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I, and
 minstrel
music is also well-represented. Etc.....

Try this out.

Donna Hesson BA, MLS
Public Health Librarian/Manager, Lilienfeld Library
624 N. Broadway, 9th floor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
(410) 955-3028  office
(410) 955-0200  FAX
dhesson at jhmi.edu


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thornlow, Bruce" <Thornlowb at ndu.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:59 AM
Subject: [PW] ? Lyrics From Post-Revolutionary War to Pre-Civil War
MilitaryMusic, Songs etc.


> 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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