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Ragtime

Presentation on ragtime, "a genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass." Features digitized images of sheet music, audio and video clip ...

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/ragtime/

The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930

Devoted to the early years of jazz music, from its origins "sometime around 1895 in New Orleans" through 1930. Contains brief profiles of musicians, and audio of original recordings. Includes photographs, discographies, filmographies, and e ...

http://www.redhotjazz.com/

Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection

A searchable collection of sheet music from late 19th century to early 20th century America, divided into the categories of blues, rags, movie and show tunes, foxtrots, popular songs, war songs, minstrel songs, songs of Irving Berlin, and specialty s ...

http://digital.library.msstate.edu/collections/sheetmusic/index.html

"Perfessor" Bill Edwards

This "Professional Purveyor of Pleasingly Pianistic Pyrotechnics" offers a complex site of ragtime history, audio files, sheet music covers, an essay on player and other mechanical pianos (in Resources ), gospel tunes, military anthems ( Re ...

http://www.perfessorbill.com/

Fats Waller Forever

"Jazz pianist and organist of extraordinary facile technique and seemingly limitless invention," Fats Waller "perfected and expanded the style known as stride." This site includes essays on Waller's life and music, a discography, ...

http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/fw/fatsmain.htm

The MoMI.org: The Museum of Musical Instruments

This site focuses on virtual collections of guitars, mandolins, and musicians of the last two centuries, with photographs, audio files, and beautiful exhibits. Some of the topics are Mark Twain's musicianship, Rita Hayworth's guitar playing in the mo ...

http://www.themomi.org/museum/

American Music Resource

AMR contains 800+ bibliographies, lists and text files about all styles of American music and related issues. The collection is indexed by subject-name (i.e. the last names of composers) or topic-name (e.g. Electro-acoustic music). Site is under deve ...

http://www.amrhome.net/

American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

A collection of "materials relating to ballroom (also called social) dance," including over two hundred social dance manuals. Features antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, a bibliography, and the essay "How to Read a D ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/

Let It Resound: Sheet Music in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

Exhibit of sheet music from the genres of minstrelsy (1830s to 1900s), concert spirituals (1890s to 1940s), ragtime and black musical theater (1890s to 1920s), blues and jazz (1910s to 1950s), and R&B and soul (1950s to 1970s). Includes annotated ...

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/LetItResound/

Historic House Architecture: Guide to Historic Houses with Emphasis on Late-Victorian and Craftsman Style Bungalows

A written guide only to these American architectural styles, with no pictures or drawings. A fun element is the "architectural police tips" on things to avoid, or beware of, when deciding on the renovation of a historic home.

http://www.ragtime.org/arch/

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