The song index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
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The song index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
（Garland reference library of social science, vol. 1394）
Garland Publishing, 1998
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- v. 2
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A finding aid to the collection of song books in the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.; dating from the early 20th century, with various librarians taking responsibility for the indexing
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Acknowledgements, How to Use This Book, The Bibliography, The Song Index, The Composers, The Sources (Operas, Musicals, Movies and Other Sources of Songs)
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