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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

It's Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen (Library of Congress)

It's Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen (Library of Congress)"The Library of Congress has vast holdings of dramatic music of all kinds, including operas, musicals and musical revues, and film music. Sheet music excerpts from these works have been published for over 300 years. We present here a database of over 18,000 shows and productions dating from the 1690s to the present, containing more than 67,000 songs. These pieces come from all over the world and cover every conceivable topic, portraying the culture and history of their time and place in unique and valuable ways"

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