Digital Spotlight: Historic American Sheet Music

HISTORIC AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC is a digital collection featuring sheet music of the 19th and early 20th century.

Contents: A Duke University Libraries collection, this resource includes digital images of over 3,000 pieces of music. Users can locate sheet music by composer, date, subject, instrumentation, illustrator, lyricist, publisher, and title.

Classroom Connections: Connect the music and social studies teachers for an engaging interdisciplinary project. Ask students to connect a piece of music to the time period when it was published. Use the subject search option to identify songs related to women, landscapes, entertainment, fashion, animals, society, transportation, and other interesting topics.

Featured Digital Objects:
Indiana http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm_a0093/
That Railroad Rag http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm_a0013/
My Pony Boy http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm_a1110/

To visit the collection, go to http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/.