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Music for the Nation contains scanned page images for “more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright” from 1820‐1860 and from 1870‐1885. The collection is indexed by author, title, and subject; it is also searchable by keyword.
The image reproductions are quite good, and most would be suitable for immediate use by musicians. The usefulness of the sheet music, however, is limited only by the image format. The image files are usually only available in TIFF, with a separate file for each page image, which makes for a tediously long printing process. Many of the files are...
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