American Antiquarian Society

COLLECTION: American Antiquarian Society sheet music duplicates

LOCATION AS OF 2001: Music Library Special Collections

PROVENANCE: American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

WHEN ACQUIRED: August 1976

DESCRIPTION: Purchase of 254 imprints of the period from the late 18th century through 1870 (largely prior to 1860)

includes:

• 215 items listed in Wolfe

• 3 Sonneck-Upton items

• 8 Stephen Foster imprints

• 14 "special interest" items

• 14 publications with lithographed covers.

ARRANGEMENT: Dispersed among vocal and piano sheet music collections in the Special Collections area of the Music Library.  Arranged under year of publication or (most frequently) alphabetically by title in undated sections.

ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: See online catalog of sheet music holdings.  Lists of items purchased from the American Antiquarian Society are filed in the Collections File ("American Antiquarian Society").  See also bibliographic descriptions in:

Wolfe, R.J.
Secular music in America, 1801-1825 (New York, 1964; ML120.U5W64)

Sonneck,O.G.T.
A bibliography of early secular American music, 18th century (New
York: Da Capo, 1964; ML120.U5S66 1964)

INDEX TERMS: Sheet music, American
 

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