Popular music -- United States -- Archival resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
American literature sheet music collection
Collection
Identifier: 6154
Abstract
This small collection of sheet music consists of music published between 1872 and 1940 (with the bulk published 1900s-1930s). The bulk of the music consists of lyrics written by significant American writers, including Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bill Nye, O. Henry, and Owen Wister, to name a few. The musical compositions were written by equally well known composers, including Jerome Kern, Efrem Zimbalist, Carrie Jacobs-Bond,and Doc White, among...
Dates:
1872 - 1940; Majority of material found in 1900s-1930s
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library
Play-Rite Music Rolls collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275040379530]
Identifier: 1010
Abstract
Piano rolls are spools of perforated paper (or thin film) programmed with music and designed to be played on a mechanically-operated piano, more commonly called a player piano. Player pianos as popular entertainment reached their heyday in the 1920s, although both player pianos and piano rolls can be found today-- and at least one company, QRS Music, continues to manufacture music rolls. The two music rolls in this small collection were both manufactured by Play-Rite Music Rolls, Inc. in...
Dates:
1979, 1982
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library
Thompson and Berri sheet music collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275056490429]
Identifier: 6206
Abstract
The collection consists of American sheet music, 1901-1930s.
Dates:
1901-1930
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library