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Best of the Web: Performing Arts » Recorded Sound » Other Sites of Interest
- 78rpm Home Page
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ARChive of Contemporary Music
Non-profit pop music library and research center. Specializes in pop music created since 1950.
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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project-University of California, Santa Barbara
Digitized collection of over 6,000 cylinder recordings from the turn of the 20th century, available to be sampled online or downloaded.
- Early Recorded Sound & Wax Cylinders
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Edison National Historic Site
Site of Thomas Edison's home and laboratories.
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Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings
Index to master recordings (matrixes) and published discs, made by the Victor Talking Machine Company beginning with 1900. Includes recordings made in U.S., Central & South America releases from masters recorded in Europe by Gramophone Company test recordings.Eventually database will extend to the early 1950s.
- Library of Congress: Sound Recordings from the American Memory Project
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Marian Anderson
Includes selected audio-video excerpts from Marian Anderson's performances and interviews, as well as a sampling of photos, scores and papers from her Archives, which is housed in the University of Pennsylvania Library.
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Matrix and Catalog Numbers in Gilbert and Sullivan Discography
Discusses origin and evolution of matrix numbers, early recording and playback equipment and early history of the Gramophone Company.
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Music of Puerto Rico
Bi-lingual site(English and Spanish) featuring history of Puerto Rican music, including its instruments, genres, artists with bios, essays, lyrics(Spanish only), audio clips.
- Nipperhead
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Raices Latin Music Museum Collection
Comprehensive multi-media collection describing the history and evolution of Latin Music in New York City. Includes audio/visual recordings, original manuscripts, photos, periodicals, oral histories, artifacts, instruments.
- Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound: Digital Finding Aids for Archival Collections
- The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
- Wolverine Antique Music Society
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Picture of the Day
A chart of the White Sea with the River Dwina (ca. 1702-1707). The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery