Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Library of Congress: Historic American Sheet Music: 1850–1920: American: 3,042 19th and early 20th-century American sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. The Library of Congress: The Library of Congress: Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870–1885: 19th-century ...
This article relating to library science or information science is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), also known as the ChoralWiki, is an online database for choral and vocal music. Its contents primarily include sheet music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder).
From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. [5] [non-primary source needed]
The Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Sheet Music is a collection of over 30,000 titles of American popular music spanning from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. It includes many first editions such as Jingle Bells and Battle Hymn of the Republic , as well as first editions of prominent American composers of the time such ...
G. Schirmer, Inc. is an American classical music publishing company based in New York City, founded in 1861.The oldest active music publisher in the United States, [1] Schirmer publishes sheet music for sale and rental, and represents some well-known European music publishers in North America, such as the Music Sales Affiliates ChesterNovello, Breitkopf & Härtel, Sikorski and many Russian and ...
American musicologist Barry Kernfeld, said that in the 1950s, "a million-selling sheet-music title was entirely a thing of the past". [ 9 ] From the album era , " Stairway to Heaven " (1971) by Led Zeppelin is the biggest selling piece of sheet music in rock history, with over one million copies sold, selling 15,000 units per year at some point ...
Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7 Obituary index : 1988 obituary index , Notes (Music Library Association), 1989, p. 723