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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.
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Historic American Sheet Music 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....This Civil War-era band plays period arrangements on antique instruments.
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Southern Horizon An Authentic Civil War Era Band Horizon has been performing 19th century period music since 1987 for reenactments, museums, conventions, schools and private engagements. The group presents music popular of the period from 1816-1865. The music and arrangements are researched to present an accurate portrayal of...Midis of public domain favorites.
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Public Domain Music Sequenced by Benjamin Robert Tubb Tubbbased on original sheet music sources in the public domain AMERICAN COMPOSERS Philip Paul Bliss (1838-1876) Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946) Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) William Shakespeare Hays (1837-1907) Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861) Victor August Herbert (1859-1924) John Hill Hewitt (1801-1890) Frederic...(from Colonial Times to 1900) Lyrics, Historical Information, MIDIs, Tune-Related Links.
http://www.contemplator.com/america.html
An extensive annotated link list. Includes both 19th and 18th century popular music.
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/music-1.html
Historical musician Bob Kilham recreates the sights and sounds of ante-bellum America using original or reproduction instuments and primary source music.
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Amoskeag Music Kilham has played a variety of instruments from childhood, and since 1986 has made a study of the styles and music of the mid 19th century. Playing banjo, fiddle, accordion, flute, piano guitar he presents a variety of programs which...Recordings and banjo instruction books in the modern-day clawhammer banjo or frailing style and the old-time minstrel banjo stroke style.
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A reference library of classic western and cowboy songs.
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Cowboy Songs Western songs no matter how hard we try. Here are the words for some of the classic songs as well as the words for the songs you may not hear anymore. New songs will be added on a regular basis....Biographies and portraits of members of this popular vocal group.
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Hutchinson Family Singers Home Page Hutchinson newly annotated (under construction) Songster Discography Genealogy (Links) Milford Homestead Bibliography Links (general) Memorabilia Nathaniel P. Rogers Dr. Taylor's Movement Cure The celebrated and honored Hutchinson Family wrote P. T. Barnum always give a most excellent entertainment, which pleases...Analysis of songs featuring the folk hero, including lyrics, sound files, and background.
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John Henry The Steel Driving Man Henrys the man and legend surrounding him. Pinning down the legend is not easy; it's as varied as the thousands of people who have studied, sung and recorded it over the years. John Garst, from the University of Georgia, believes...Information on this vocal quartet who sings songs popular in the American South during the Civil War.
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sonsofdixie Confederate soldier in the Wilderness, 1864 News! Latest photos!...re-creation of an actual small town band (Lynchburg, Tenn. Pop. 361) at the turn of the century: includes performer biographies, history, discography.
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Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band Bandis a registered trademark of Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Proprietor, Lynchburg, Tenn Pop. 361)...Article by Debby McClatchy .
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A Short History of Appalachian Traditional Music Appalachians to be mountains of the southeastern region of the United States, but in truth they encompass eighteen states, reaching from Maine to Georgia, and include, among others, the Berkshires of Connecticut, the Green Mountains of New Hampshire, the Catskills...Article about his tour collecting Appalachian folk music.
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America collecting in the Appalachians Foreword: I first visited the Appalachian Mountains in the summer of 1979. The following year I wrote a short article about the singer/banjo-player Dan Tate, which was published in the Folk Music Journal. In the...Brief illustrated history of late-19th-century "rock band" (playing on stone xylophones).
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Till Family Rock Band I am only an indirect distant relative of this Concert Group but my interest was first stimulated some 20 years ago when an aunt passed on to me an original Till Family Rock Band concert programme, dated 1885 (see right,...Article about the preservation of the music and dances of 19th Century California.
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Spanish Language Social Music of 19th Century Southern California Hernando was himself a musician and singer, there are no Lummis recordings of him. A number of pieces from Francisco Amate’s repertoire are preserved on Lummis’ wax cylinders. Once upon a time, in a land not so far away and...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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Early American Music from the 1900s through the 1920s Come inside and listen to songs of Yesteryear! Halcyon Days Music contains an ever expanding collection of Early American music in MIDI format. Each musical piece is accompanied with a scan of its sheet music front cover, and lyrics of...