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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Resource of the Week
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
Our loyal ResourceShelf readers know that we are big fans of digitization projects. Well, one that crossed our radar screen recently happens to be of personal interest to me, and it's my pleasure to share it with you this week.
Sheet Music--Collection
Source: UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University
Sheet Music Consortium
We have, within our extended family, a lyricist whose name graced many a colorful sheet music cover in the early 20th century. My cousin, who is the niece of this man, has a large framed collection of this sheet music hanging on the walls of her house. While exploring this website, it was amazing to see some of these same pieces of sheet music in digital format here, thanks to the Sheet Music Consortium -- "a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH)."
You can do a simple keyword search, or browse the collections using dropdown menus to choose criteria. An advanced search form offers more options. When I used the dropdown menu to search on my cousin's uncle's name, I was able to retrieve 97 entries for James Kendis.
Each brief entry contains the title of the music, the composer(s) and lyricist(s), the publisher, date of publication, and the collection in which it is found. Click on the "more info" link, and you get an expanded entry that also provides subject terms. If you've created an account here (free), you can add a notation of your own in the box provided and save the entry to your "virtual collection."
Not every item in the database has been digitized. A checkbox allows you to search only for digitized materials. An "access online" link towards the end of the entry takes you directly to the entry and/or image, at the hosting library. You can explore an image by zooming in and out; different collections have different ways of doing this. Every image I looked at was very sharp (although some of the links to the images were not working). If you've ever seen old sheet music like this, you know how charming the covers can be. It is only fitting and proper that the sheet music for My Little Kangaroo is housed at the National Library of Australia. My cousin, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has this geographically appropriate one on her wall.
If you click on the "Sheet Music on the Web" link at the bottom of the gray navigation frame on the left side of the home page, you'll find three very interesting links (in order):
+ About Sheet Music ("Musical taste is, like art and fashion, subject to extreme changes and subtle nuances. On this basis then, sheet music is best described as single sheets printed on one or both sides, folios (one sheet folded in half to form four pages), folios with a loose half-sheet inserted to yield six pages, double-folios (an inner folio inserted within the fold of an outer folio to make eight pages) and double-folios with a loose half-sheet inserted within the fold of an inner folio to produce ten pages.")
+ Other Sheet Music Sites and Projects
+ Sheet Music Links
If you click on the "Sheet Music on the Web" link on the left side of the main home page frame (below "About the Consortium"), you'll be taken to a large page of annotated links to Sheet Music Collections from the Music Library Association.
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