Illustrated Covers from the Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection

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Collection Description

The Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection consists of 102 pieces of sheet music from 1869 to 1987, primarily for voice and piano, all celebrating or emanating from the borough of Brooklyn. Contents include marches written in honor of a local person or business, pieces celebrating the whole or a part of the borough, songs from shows and movies set in or about Brooklyn, and pieces from Brooklyn's early 20th-century Yiddish-language theater.

Collection URL

Click URL to view — http://sheetmusic.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/

Materials

Sheet music

Language

eng

Site Created

2006

Institution Type

Public library

Geographic Place(s)

Brooklyn (borough)

Inclusive Dates

1869 1987

Metro Funded Project

Yes

Metro Funding Year

2006

Full Project Title

Illustrated Covers from the Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection

Part of Collection

digitalMETRO

Citation

Brooklyn Public Library, "Illustrated Covers from the Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection," in digitalMETRO, Item #17, http://www.nycdigital.org/items/show/17 (accessed February 8, 2012).

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