ABOUT

Manuscript music documenting American musical culture from the Colonial period until the early 20th century, from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society and the Center for Popular Music. The digital collection contains about 350 music manuscripts (with 10,000+ pieces of music), including song and tunebooks, sheet music, and commonplace books.  

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Repository

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<10000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Symbolic

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Genre

,

Geographical

,

Temporal

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

,

Lyrics

,

Structure of a song

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

,

Data Dump

,

Human Consumption

,

Interoperable format

,

Query Interface