- Halcyon Days Music - http://www.halcyondaysmusic.com
Midi music collection of early American music of the 19th Century and early 20th Century, complete with scans of sheet music covers and lyrics.
- Historic American Sheet Music - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University: Major collection of sheet music; digital images of 3042 pieces published in the US, 1850-1920.
- Southern Horizon - http://www.southern-horizon.com/
This Civil War-era band plays period arrangements on antique instruments.
- Popular Songs in American History - http://www.contemplator.com/america.html
(from Colonial Times to 1900) Lyrics, Historical Information, MIDIs, Tune-Related Links.
- American Popular Music before 1900 - http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/music-1.html
An extensive annotated link list. Includes both 19th and 18th century popular music.
- Amoskeag Music - http://hometown.aol.com/rkilham/Amoskeag.html
Historical musician Bob Kilham recreates the sights and sounds of ante-bellum America using original or reproduction instuments and primary source music.
- Dr. Horsehair - http://www.drhorsehair.com
Recordings and banjo instruction books in the modern-day clawhammer banjo or frailing style and the old-time minstrel banjo stroke style.
- Cowboy Songs - http://lonehand.com/cowboy_songs.htm
A reference library of classic western and cowboy songs.
- Hutchinson Family Singers - http://www.geocities.com/unclesamsfarm/hutchinsons.htm
Biographies and portraits of members of this popular vocal group.
- John Henry - The Steel Driving Man - http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/henry.html
Analysis of songs featuring the folk hero, including lyrics, sound files, and background.
- Sons of Dixie - http://www.sonsofdixie.homestead.com/
Information on this vocal quartet who sings songs popular in the American South during the Civil War.
- Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band - http://www.silvercornet.com
re-creation of an actual small town band (Lynchburg, Tenn. Pop. 361) at the turn of the century: includes performer biographies, history, discography.
- Cecil Sharp in America - http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/sharp.htm
Article about his tour collecting Appalachian folk music.
- Till Family Rock Band - http://www.michaeltill.com
Brief illustrated history of late-19th-century "rock band" (playing on stone xylophones).
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