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| American Popular Music Before 1900 | ||
| This site offers a well-organized outline of trends in popular music in America from colonial times until the turn of the twentieth century, with easy links to more detailed information on each trend. ( http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-1.html ) | ||
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| The Yankee Tunesmiths | ||
| This site offers a history of early American songwriters, with many MIDI files of the melodies and excerpts from their writings. ( http://www.nationwide.net/~amaranth/billings.htm ) | ||
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| Center for American Music: Stephen Foster | ||
| This site offers a good biography of Stephen Foster, with specific details provided about some of his more famous songs. ( http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/foster.htm ) | ||
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| PBS, The American Experience: Stephen Foster | ||
| This attractive site offer the chance to listen to early recording of Foster songs as you view the lyrics along with detailed information on his life and times. ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/ ) | ||
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| Stephen Foster: American Dreams | ||
| This is another fine site on Stephen Foster's life, times, and songs, with lots of photos and images and MIDI files . ( http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de/ ) | ||
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| Louis Moreau Gottschalk | ||
| This site offers a biography and discography of this composer, who many consider to be the first great American classical composer. ( http://www.louismoreaugottschalk.com/ ) | ||
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| Amy Cheney Beach | ||
| This PBS site offers a biography of this famous American woman composer along with a sound file and text of "Ah, Love, but a Day" sung by Frederica von Stade. ( http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/beach.html ) | ||
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| Edward MacDowell | ||
| This site offers a biography of the American composer Edward MacDowell with a special sound file and text of "In the Woods" aptly sung by Dawn Upshaw. ( http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/macdowell.html ) | ||
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| Shape Notes in America | ||
| This site describes and gives examples of a unique system of music notation that blossomed in early American singing and is a departure from traditional European notation. ( http://www.paperlesshymnal.com/shapnote/shaped.htm ) | ||
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