\u00bb Sheet Music Home<\/a> Digital Collections<\/a> | Online Exhibitions<\/a> | Essential References<\/a> | Brown University Library Resources<\/a> | Internet Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>Digital Collections:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>Online Exhibitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>Essential References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n American music before 1865 in print and on records : a biblio-discography \/ pref. by H. Wiley Hitchcock<\/a> Amtmann, Willy Bloom, Ken Bloom, Ken Canadian Music Centre, Toronto Cass-Beggs, Barbara Damon, S. Foster De Charms, Desiree Dennison, Sam. Devine, George J. Dichter, Harry Ellinwood, Leonard Webster Encyclopedia of music in Canada<\/a> \/ edited by Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters Epstein, Dena J. Fuld, James J. Ganzl, Kurt The encyclopedia of the musical theatre<\/a> Gillespie, John Goodfellow, William D. Goodfellow, William D. Harwell, Richard Barksdale Havlice, Patricia Pate Havlice, Patricia Pate Havlice, Patricia Pate Havlice, Patricia Pate Heard, Priscilla S. Heskes, Irene Heskes, Irene Hixon, Donald L. Hoogerwerf, Frank W. Hovland, Michael A. Jackson, Rick Johnston, Richard Jones, Frangcon L. Kallman, Helmut Keller, Kate Van Winkle Klamkin, Marian Krummel, Donald William Krummel, Donald William Laforte, Conrad Lax, Roger Levy, Lester S. Levy, Lester S. Library Company of Philadelphia Lissauer, Robert Lowens, Irving. Metcalf, Frank J. Miles, William. Morey, Carl Music printing and publishing \/ edited by D.W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie<\/a> The New Grove dictionary of American music \/ edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie ; editorial coordinator Susan Feder<\/a> The New York Times great songs of the Yiddish theater \/ arr. for voice, piano, and guitar; lyrics transliterated [and music editing by Zalmen Mlotek] ; selected by Norman H. Warembud ; foreword by Molly Picon<\/a> Nulman, Macy Peters, Diane E. Peters, Harry Twyford Peterson, Bernard L., Jr. Popular music, 1900-1919 : an annotated guide to American popular songs, including introductory essay, lyricists and composers index, important performances index, chronological index, and list of publishers\/ Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, editor<\/a> Popular music, 1920-1979 : a revised cumulation<\/a> \/ Nat Shapiro and Bruce Pollock, editors Popular music, 1980-1989 : an annotated guide to American popular songs, including introductory essay, lyricists and composers index, important performances index, chronological index, awards index, and list of publishers<\/a> \/ Bruce Pollock, editor Rabson, Carolyn Riis, Thomas Laurence. Riis, Thomas Laurence. Rosenfeld, Alvin H. Sampson, Henry T., 1934- Sampson, Henry T., 1934- Sandrow, Nahma Sears, Minnie Earl Sears, Minnie Earl Shapiro, Nat Slobin, Mark Slobin, Mark Recording to accompany the book Tenement Songs [sound recording] \/ Mark Slobin. 1 sound cassette<\/a> Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore Southern, Eileen Southern, Eileen Taft, Michael Thorpe, Alice Louise Toll, Robert C Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth century America<\/a> Traubner, Richard Wilmeth, Don B Wilmeth, Don B Wolfe, Richard J. Woll, Allen L. Woll, Allen L. <\/a>Related Resources at Brown University Library:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>Internet Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Aaron Copland Collection<\/a> All Music Guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets<\/a> American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals ca. 1490-1920<\/a> An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera<\/a> Archives of African American Music and Culture<\/a> Band Music from the Civil War Era<\/a> California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties<\/a> Center for Popular Music Research Special Collection Databases <\/a> Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry<\/a> Freedman Jewish Music Archive<\/a> Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande<\/a> Historic American Sheet Music<\/a> Leonard Bernstein Collection<\/a> The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music<\/a> Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885<\/a> 19th Century California Sheet Music<\/a> Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals<\/a>
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Brooklyn : Institute for Studies in American Music, Dept. of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, [c1976]\n\n\n\n
Music in Canada, 1600-1800<\/a>
[s.n.] : Habitex Books ; [Cambridge, Ont. : Distributed by Collier-Macmillan Canada, c1975]\n\n\n\n
American song : the complete musical theater companion<\/a>
New York, N.Y. : Facts on File, c1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hollywood song : the complete film & musical companion<\/a>
New York : Facts on File, c1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Canadian vocal music, available for perusal from the library of the Canadian Music Centre.<\/a>
Toronto [1967]\n\n\n\n
A reference list on Canadian folk music<\/a> \/ prepared for the Canadian Folk Music Society by Barbara Cass-Beggs and Edith Fowke
Revised and updated.
[Montreal?] : Canadian Folk Music Society, 1973<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The negro in early American songsters<\/a>
[n.p.] 1934<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Songs in collections; an index [by] Desiree de Charms & Paul F. Breed<\/a>
[Detroit] Information Service [c1966]\n\n\n\n
Scandalize my name: Black imagery in American popular music<\/a>
New York : Garland Publishing, 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American songsters 1806-1815<\/a>
(M.A. Thesis)
Providence: Brown University, 1940<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early American sheet music : its lure and its lore, 1768-1889 \/ by Harry Dichter and Elliott Shapiro ; including a directory of early American music publishers ; illustrated<\/a>
New York : R.R. Bowker Co., 1941<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bibliography of American hymnals [microform] : compiled from the files of the Dictionary of American hymnology : a project of the Hymn Society of America, Inc.<\/a>\/ by Leonard Ellinwood, project director and editor, and Elizabeth Lockwood, associate editor
Microfiche ed
New York : University Music Editions, 1983<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2nd ed.
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sinful tunes and spirituals : Black folk music to the Civil War<\/a>
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [c1977]\n\n\n\n
American popular music : (reference book) 1875-1950<\/a>.
Philadelphia : Musical Americana, c1955, (1956)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2nd ed
New York : Schirmer Books, 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A bibliography of nineteenth-century American piano music, with location sources and composer biography-index \/ John Gillespie and Anna Gillespie<\/a>
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SongCite : an index to popular songs<\/a>
New York : Garland, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SongCite : an index to popular songs. Supplement 1<\/a>
New York : Garland Pub., 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confederate music<\/a>
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1950]\n\n\n\n
Popular song index<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1975<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Popular song index : first supplement<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1978<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Popular song index. Second supplement<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Popular song index. Third supplement<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American music, 1698-1800 : an annotated bibliography<\/a>
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, Markham Press Fund, c1975<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The resource book of Jewish music : a bibliographical and topical guide to the book and journal literature and program materials <\/a>
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yiddish American popular songs, 1895 to 1950 : a catalog based on the Lawrence Marwick roster of copyright entries<\/a>
Washington : Library of Congress, 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Music in early America: a bibliography of music in Evans<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1970<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confederate sheet-music imprints<\/a>
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, c1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musical settings of American poetry : a bibliography<\/a>
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Encyclopedia of Canadian rock, pop & folk music<\/a>
Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press, c1994<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Folk songs of Canada;<\/a> Edith Fulton Fowke, literary editor, Richard Johnston, music editor. Illus. by Elizabeth Wilkes Hoey
Waterloo, Ont., Waterloo Music Co. [1955]\n\n\n\n
A study of American “Forget-me-not” songsters of the 1840’s and 1850’s<\/a>
1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A history of music in Canada, 1534-1914<\/a>
[Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1960]\n\n\n\n
The national tune index [microform] \/ compiled by Kate Van Winkle Keller and Carolyn Rabson<\/a>
Microfiche ed
New York : University Music Editions, c1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Old sheet music : a pictorial history. Photos. by Charles Klamkin<\/a>
New York : Hawthorn Books, [c1975]\n\n\n\n
Bibliographical handbook of American music<\/a>
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guide for dating early published music: a manual of bibliographical practice.<\/a>
Hackensack, N. J. J. Boonin, 1974<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le Catalogue de la chanson folklorique francaise \/ par Conrad Laforte ; preface de Luc Lacourciere<\/a>
Quebec : Presses universitaires Laval, 1958<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The great song thesaurus \/ Roger Lax, Frederick Smith<\/a>
2nd ed., updated and expanded
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grace notes in American history; popular sheet music from 1820-1900<\/a>
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1967]\n\n\n\n
Picture the songs : lithographs from the sheet music of nineteenth-century America<\/a>
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1976<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides, 1850-1870; a catalogue of the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia by Edwin Wolf 2nd.<\/a>
New York, Kraus Reprint Corp., 1963<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lissauer’s encyclopedia of popular music in America : 1888 to the present<\/a>
New York : Paragon House, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A bibliography of songsters printed in America before 1821<\/a>
(Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1976)
Cites 40 songsters held only by Brown University Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American psalmody; or, Titles of books containing tunes printed in America from 1721 to 1820. Compiled by Frank J. Metcalf. New introd. by Harry Eskew<\/a>
New York, Da Capo Press, 1968<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Songs, odes, glees and ballads. A bibliography of American presidential campaign songsters<\/a>
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Music in Canada : a research and information guide<\/a>
New York : Garland Pub., 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York : W.W. Norton, 1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n
London : Macmillan Press Ltd. ; New York : Grove’s Dictionaries of Music Inc., distributor, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[New York] : Quadrangle\/New York Times Book Co., [c1975]\n\n\n\n
Concise encyclopedia of Jewish music<\/a>
New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co. [1975]\n\n\n\n
Music in Canada : a bibliography of resources in W.L.U. Library<\/a>
Waterloo, Ont., Canada : The Library, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America on stone; the other printmakers to the American people; a chronicle of American lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph disappear ed from the American scene. <\/a>
[Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran and Company, inc., c1931]\n\n\n\n
A Century of Musicals in Black and White. An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans<\/a>
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Inc., c1988<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Revised cumulation
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Inc., c1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The national tune index user’s guide : 18th-century secular music \/ Carolyn Rabson, Kate Van Winkle Keller ; [foreword by Irving Lowens ; introduction by Arthur F. Schrader]<\/a>
New York: University Music Editions, 1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than just minstrel shows : the rise of Black musical theatre at the turn of the century<\/a>
New York : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, c1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just before jazz : Black musical theater in New York, 1890-1915<\/a>
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yiddish poets and playwrights of America; a preliminary report on a recent addition to the Harris Collection<\/a>
Providence, R.I., Brown University, 1968<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blacks in blackface : a source book on early Black musical shows<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ghost walks : a chronological history of Blacks in show business, 1865-1910<\/a>
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vagabond stars : a world history of Yiddish theater<\/a>
New York : Harper & Row, [c1977]\n\n\n\n
Song index; an index to more than 12,000 songs in 177 song collections comprising 262 volumes, edited by Minnie Earl Sears, assisted by Phyllis Crawford<\/a>
New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1926<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Song index. Supplement; an index to more than 7000 songs in 104 song collections, comprising 124 volumes, edited by Minnie Earl Sears, assisted by Phyliss Crawford. Preface by Isadore Gilbert Mudge<\/a>
New York, The H. W. Wilson company, 1934<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Popular music (Detroit, Mich.)<\/a>
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1974-
Note: An annotated index of American popular songs. Edited by Nat Shapiro, v. 1-6 (covering 1920-1969); Bruce Pollock, v. 7- (covering 1970- ). A revised cumulation, 1980-1989, supersedes v. 9 (1980)-14 (1989)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The music of the Yiddish theater : manuscript sources at YIVO<\/a>
[New York : Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1983]\n\n\n\n
Tenement songs : the popular music of the Jewish immigrants<\/a>
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Urbana : University of Illinois Press], 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A bibliography of early secular American music (18th century). Rev. and enl. by William Treat Upton. With a pref. to the Da Capo ed. by Irving Lowens.<\/a>
New York, Da Capo Press, 1964<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians<\/a>
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The music of black Americans : a history<\/a>
3rd ed
New York : W.W. Norton, c1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blues lyric poetry : a concordance<\/a>
New York : Garland Pub., 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American songsters of the eighteenth century<\/a>
1935<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York : Oxford University Press, 1974<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Operetta : a theatrical history<\/a>
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American and English popular entertainment : a guide to information sources \/ Don B. Wilmeth ; foreword by Brooks McNamara<\/a>
Detroit : Gale Research Co., c1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Variety entertainment and outdoor amusements : a reference guide \/ Don B. Wilmeth<\/a>
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secular music in America, 1801-1825 : a bibliography \/ intro. by Carleton Sprague Smith<\/a>
New York : The New York Public Library, 1964<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Black musical theatre : from coontown to dreamgirls<\/a>
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Songs from Hollywood musical comedies, 1927 to the present : a dictionary<\/a>
New York : Garland Pub., 1976<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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