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Sheet Music
Collectors' & Reference Sites
- Collecting Sheet Music
- The Parlor Songs dot Com Guide to Collecting Sheet Music. Where do I get sheet music? How much does it cost? What makes some more valuable than others? This guide has been written to help answer those questions and others that you may have about collecting sheet music.
- Dreams of the Past
- An exhibition of 19th century color lithographic sheet music covers.
- Historic American Sheet Music
- The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
- Hulapages.com - Images of Hawaii on Sheet Music
- A collection of over 1000 pieces of Hawaiian and Tropical themed sheet music, from 1872 to 1939. Includes images from each piece, artist biographies, musicians, and useful links.
- Sheet Music from Canada's Past
- This website currently features sheet music published before Confederation (1867) and during the era of the First World War (1914-1920), selected from the historical collection of the National Library of Canada. Future phases will include digitized sheet music published between 1867 and 1913.
- The Center for Popular Music
- The Center for Popular Music is an archive and research center for the study of American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present.The Center's collection of sheet music includes items from the late-18th century to the present. Approximately 50,000 items have been cataloged, and may be searched online.
- The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.