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19th Century American History Music
19th Century American History Music
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Editor's Picks:
 - The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University: Major collection of sheet music; digital images of 3042 pieces published in the US, 1850-1920.
- Article about the preservation of the music and dances of 19th Century California.
- Article about his tour collecting Appalachian folk music.
- This Civil War-era band plays period arrangements on antique instruments.
- Analysis of songs featuring the folk hero, including lyrics, sound files, and background.
- Recordings and banjo instruction books in the modern-day clawhammer banjo or frailing style and the old-time minstrel banjo stroke style.
- Information on this vocal quartet who sings songs popular in the American South during the Civil War.
- (from Colonial Times to 1900) Lyrics, Historical Information, MIDIs, Tune-Related Links.
- An extensive annotated link list. Includes both 19th and 18th century popular music.
- re-creation of an actual small town band (Lynchburg, Tenn. Pop. 361) at the turn of the century: includes performer biographies, history, discography.
- Midis of public domain favorites.
- Article by Debby McClatchy .
- Historical musician Bob Kilham recreates the sights and sounds of ante-bellum America using original or reproduction instuments and primary source music.
- A reference library of classic western and cowboy songs.
- Biographies and portraits of members of this popular vocal group.
- Brief illustrated history of late-19th-century "rock band" (playing on stone xylophones).
- Midi music collection of early American music of the 19th Century and early 20th Century, complete with scans of sheet music covers and lyrics.
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