Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music Project (HASM) presents digital images of 3,042 pieces of sheet music from Duke's collections, published between 1850 and 1920. Highlights of the collection include "antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil war songs." The search capabilities at the site are sophisticated, allowing users to look for music by publisher name, composer, title, performer, and many other terms. There is online help for searching and a glossary of subject headings. Much of the sheet music is illustrated, and it is possible to search for pictures by "illustration type" (theme), allowing access to the subjects of the illustrations as well as the music itself. It is also possible to browse all the cover illustrations. HASM was originally funded by Ameritech as part of the ongoing Library of Congress/Ameritech Digital Library Competition; it will soon be part of the American Memory Collections at the Library of Congress (described in the
November 6, 1998 Scout Report).
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