19th Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project, and: 19th-Century California Sheet Music, and: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collection of Brown University, and: Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection, and: Florida Sheet Music Collection, and: Historic American Sheet Music, and: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Duke University, and: Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection, and: Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895, and: Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885, and: Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, and: [Music portion of] Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923, and: Popular American Music Digital Archive, and: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1980, and: "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (review)

19th Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project [UNC]. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 7 September 2000. http://www.lib.unc.edu/music/eam.html

19th-Century California Sheet Music [UCB]. Designed and managed by Mary Kay Duggan. University of California, Berkeley, 2000. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html

African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University [LC-Brown]. Library of Congress, 10 September 1999. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/

Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection [MSU]. Mississippi State University, 2 January 2001. http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/

Florida Sheet Music Collection [USF]. University of South Florida, 2001. http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/index2.html?f=guide-11327

Historic American Sheet Music [Duke]. Duke University, 1999. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Duke University [LC-Duke]. Library of Congress, 3 May 1999. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/

Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection [MIT]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 24 June 2001. http://libraries.mit.edu/music/sheetmusic/

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 [Penn]. "Focus on Philadelphia." Content and design by John Bewley. University of Pennsylvania, 13 May 1998. http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/keffer/

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 [LC-Nation]. Library of Congress, 13 September 1999. http://memory.loc.gov/ ammem/smhtml/

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music [JHU]. Johns Hopkins
University, June 2001. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

[Music portion of] Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 [NYPL]. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2001. http://dlc.nypl. org/lpa/nypl/home.html

Popular American Music Digital Archive [UCLA]. University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/

Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, ca. 1790- 1980 [SI]. Smithsonian Institution, 5 January 2000. http://americanhistory. si.edu/archives/d5300.htm

"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana [LC-Lincoln]. Library of Congress, 25 August, 1999. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/

This review attempts to assimilate the content and style of fifteen Web sites that contain databases of American sheet music. A discussion of the methodology, selection of sites, and definitions of categories used in the tables below precedes a narrative comparison of Web site features. Web sites are cited using the abbreviations given in brackets in the citations above. All sites were last accessed on 10 January 2002.

In this review I originally intended to discuss popular music databases more generally, but a number of reasons led me to concentrate on American sheet music. Many sheet music collections in both public and private libraries focus on popular music, and their title pages and covers are often graced by images relating to popular culture. Sheet music has a popular appeal to researchers in art, dance, theater, music, history, sociology, fashion, and other disciplines. Despite the interdisciplinary nature and potential usefulness of these resources, however, much sheet music in American libraries remains uncataloged. Savvy librarians across the country have taken...