World War I Sheet Music

title

World War I Sheet Music

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description

Thousands of pieces of digitized sheet music acquired by the Library of Congress between 1914 and 1920, documenting World War I in American popular culture. The collection includes commercial publications, vanity press editions of amateur compositions, and unpublished manuscripts.  

creator or project

World War I Sheet Music

type

Repository

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

task or research field

music history

musicology

Archival studies

history

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

Shares data in open data formats

Offers a Web API

Offers data export or dump

reused resources

LCSH Classification

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here

type of collected resources

Score

scope of the collection

Temporal

Geographical

category of data collected

Symbolic

music data features

Descriptive Metadata

Music structure

collection size

<100000

data formats

tiff

pdf

jpg

data license

Open Access

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1635268063-59058