American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910 (AVMM)

title

American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910 (AVMM)

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description

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.  

creator or project

ca. 1730-1910 (AVMM)

American Vernacular Music Manuscripts

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Repository

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

task or research field

music history

technical features

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Provides user-friendly search interfaces

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type of collected resources

Score

scope of the collection

Genre

Temporal

Geographical

category of data collected

Symbolic

music data features

Lyrics

Music structure

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<10000

data formats

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xml

data license

Open Access

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1635268063-586406