Music

• Sheet music collections from American Memory of the Library of Congress
  • African Americans ~ Sheet Music ~ 1850-1920
  • Folk Fiddle Music, Southern Appalachian ~ Henry Reed ~ Multiformat ~ 1966-1967
  • "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
  • Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
  • Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
  • America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets (Song Sheets ~ ca. 1800-1880)
• Aaron Copland Collection ca. 1900-1990 ~ Multiformat ~ includes access to Copland's sketches, actual music (scores), writings, letters, photographs, and more.
• JAZZ Online(tm) Jazz Radio
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A history of Jazz before 1930
• Marian Anderson: A Life in Song. Exhibit of life of African-American opera singer. Includes Audio and Video excerpts.
• America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets 4,291 song sheets from the Civil War and other military movements. Some honor individual regiments and military and political leaders. Includes some of America's most beloved songs such as the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the "Star Spangled Banner."
• Opera Base: site dedicated to opera in performance. Available in English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Includes links to reviews, summaries, synopses, artists, recordings.
• Leonard Bernstein ca. 1920-1989 collection from American Memory of the Library of Congress.
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 Recordings from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress
• Omaha Indian Music from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress.
• Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress
• Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine This site allows you to can listen to the recordings of the early 20th Century. Hear the wonderful sounds of Caruso, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald and many more in this truly wonderful collection of online music. Images of old phonograph records enhance the experience.

Blues and Jazz

• Red Hot Jazz Archive Includes bands, films, musicians, singers (such as Bessie Smith, "Ma" Rainey), and essays

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Last update 27 January 2007.