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Sheet music

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Archival resources (16)
Pictorial works (2)
United States (12)

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Ragtime

Ragtime is a uniquely American musical idiom and it is generally distinguished by its three or four contrasting sections or strains, each one being 16 or 32 measures in length. Played by itinerant pianists who made their way across the South and Midwest, the music first began to be formally published in the mid-1890s, and it soon made its way to Europe and other parts of the world. The Library of...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/ragtime/about-this-collectio...
The Maine Music Box

Created through a collaboration between the University of Maine's Fogler Library and other Maine libraries, The Maine Music Box contains hundreds of digitized sheet music scores from five major collections. First-time visitors to the site will want to click on the "About Maine Music Box" project as a way of getting started. Here they can check out the "User Information" area, which contains...

https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb/