The literature of American music in books and folk music collections: a fully annotated bibliography. Brainard's biographies of American musicians / edited by E. Douglas Bomberger. Peterson, Bernard L. A century of musicals in black and white: an encyclopedia of musical stage works by, about, or involving African Americans. Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians. Choral music by African American composers: a selected, annotated bibliography. American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides, 1850-1870. The main call number section for books on the history of American music is ML200, although some will be found in other sections as well.

Opus Technologies is pleased to announce that it has signed a braille music publishing agreement with Hal Leonard Corp. of Milwaukee, WI, the world's largest print music publishing company. For the piano vocal guitar and easy piano versions of songs with lyrics, the braille music consists of three parts: (1) preliminary matter: title page and transcriber notes, (2) a vocal-guitar part using the line-by-line method, with three lines for lyrics, chord symbols, and melody, and (3) a piano part using the bar-over-bar method, with three lines for melody, right hand, and left hand. Each part starts on a separate sheet, so that a blind vocalist/guitarist can use the vocal-guitar part while a blind pianist uses the piano part. For piano solo versions, the braille music consists of two parts: (1) preliminary matter, and (2) a piano part using the bar-over-bar method, with two parallel lines for right hand and left hand.

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The Art and Music Collection contains several CD-ROMs that allow the patron to download and print out sheet music. The Art and Music Collection houses a computer reserved specifically for use with the sheet music CD-ROMS and for scanning images. The contents of any single sheet music CD-ROM converts to hundreds of pages of printed material; therefore, downloading and printing of the entire contents of a CD during a single visit is not allowed. Because the computers in the Art and Music Collection are networked to a single printer and there are times when several patrons are sending print jobs to the networked printer, patrons accessing the sheet music CD-ROMs may be asked by library staff members to limit their printing to only ONE performance part or score.

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Definition of musical terms including notation by Peter Fitz. The Odradek Institute has an excellent collection of resources: music technology and cultures. RISM - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales own format. Music and Computers is collecting a database of old music - with its Harmony Central provides an overview of Computer Music Resources. Bookmarks for Han-Wen Nienhuys, author of LilyPond. Telematics for Libraries Music resources, projects and Services Music resources on indiana.edu. Bibliography: Books about Music Engraving and Notation The Varieties and Uses of Music Bibliography by Donald W. Krummel. Ducks Deluxe a web site for guitar and general music.

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In this information sheet, we give a brief overview of copyright collecting societies. The licence fees collected are distributed to members. Some collecting societies also collect and distribute fees under "statutory licences" in the Copyright Act, which allow use of copyright material for certain special purposes---such as copying by educational institutions or government. This means that an Australian collecting society is generally able to license the works of Australian copyright owners as well as the works of copyright owners who are members of, or affiliated with, overseas collecting societies with which it has agreements. Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) licenses the reproduction of works owned by its members (generally authors, journalists and publishers) and members of overseas affiliated reproduction rights organisations.

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Philadelphia: Printed and sold by G. Willig, No. 185 Market St. <between 1798 and 1804> Sonneck p.269. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by G. Willig, No. 185 Market St. <1801> Wolfe 6. New York: Published by T. Birch at his Piano Forte & Music Saloon, 233 Broadway. Philadelphia: Published by G.E. Blake, No 13 South 5th Street. Philadelphia: Pub. and engrav'd by John Aitken, and sold at his Musical Repository, North 2d St. Hull's victory: a new patriotic song sung with great applause by Mr. Hardinge, at the Philadelphia Theatre. Philadelphia: Published by G.E. Blake, No. 13 South 5th Street. Boston: Published and sold at G. Graupners, No. 6 Franklin Street.

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Per Gessle (musician and artist, member of Roxette, www.roxette.se). NoteHeads offers publishers and artists technology which will enable them to sell their music in sheet music format over the Internet from their own sites. NoteHeads offers to transfer the songs into the digital sheet music format developed by NoteHeads. The artist loads a file called 'NoteHeads Reader' onto their own website, together with the locked digital sheet music files. NoteHeads regularly reports sales figures and distributes the agreed percentage of takings to each copyright owner. NoteHeads Commerce allows publishers and artists to sell sheet music via the Internet from their own web-site. The Network Commerce solution can handle storage, distribution, sales, administration and statistics.

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Project is a consortium of institutions building OAI-compliant data providers, a metadata harvester, and a web-based service provider for digital sheet music collections. Advanced services in addition to basic searching and browsing have been developed, including the ability to save and share subsets across participating collections. Most significantly, digital sheet music collections have been mounted by the Library of Congress, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. Sheet music collections have become the focus of digitization projects for a number of reasons relating to the publication format, its component parts, and the resulting problems in providing access, either through traditional cataloging systems, or by other means.

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--- Charles Edison, son of Thomas A. Edison From the music collection amassed by Thomas Edison, Primary Source Microfilm is publishing the pre-Civil War scores, which includes everything from rare first and early editions by Stephen Collins Foster to campaign songs. · Wars and depressions With roughly 15,000 antebellum items, The Thomas A. Edison Collection of American Sheet Music is one of the largest single collections of pre-1861 sheet music in the United States. The titles and lyrics are of natural interest to musicologists, but interest also extends into the scholarship of American history and American studies. Piano compositions performed with sheet music were a main form of entertainment for the middle and working classes.

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Its primary focus is on both the need for such a standard and the subsequent development of a new, standard music notation markup language using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) called Extensible Music Notation Markup Language or EMNML. PARC scientists created numerous innovations from the Graphical User Interface/What You See Is What You Get (GUI/WYSIWYG) computer, flat panel displays, and the rolling trackball to the color teal (actually caused by a failed experiment in chromatographic dye diffusion printing) and the little three-legged plastic disc that sits in the center of a pizza and to prevent the box from collapsing onto the cheese (the PARC scientists ate a lot of pizza).

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FileOpen Systems (www.fileopen.com) today announced at the Seybold Seminars San Francisco that Net4Music (www.net4music.com), the Web-based vendor of digitized sheet music, has selected FileOpen PDF technology to protect the copyright of music publishers. Net4Music intends to revolutionize the way sheet music is distributed by leveraging proven technology for selling, displaying, and securing the documents in digital form. "In the past, printed sheet music could be difficult for musicians to find, and publishers' copyright and revenues were denigrated by illicit copying and redistribution," said François Dulliège, CEO of Net4Music. Through the use of Net4Music's proprietary SMDE (sheet music distribution engine), the rights of the artists and publishers will be properly protected.