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Lincoln museum puts sheet music, songbooks online

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
‘President Lincoln’s Grand March,’ 1862, first edition, four pages, ‘Dedicated to the Union Army,’ F.B. Helmsmuller, New York. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com archive and Early American History Auctions
‘President Lincoln’s Grand March,’ 1862, first edition, four pages, ‘Dedicated to the Union Army,’ F.B. Helmsmuller, New York. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com archive and Early American History Auctions

 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is exploring history through music. The museum has placed songbooks, sheet music and other resources online.

There are more than 740 song sheets, songbooks and pieces of sheet music on the www.ChroniclingIllinois.org website. The music is divided into three collections: Civil War Song Sheets, Lincoln Sheet Music and Illinois Sheet Music and Songbooks.

Songs and their titles can say a lot about history. For example, there’s this title: I Love You Like Lincoln Loved the Old Red, White, and Blue.

Civil War music historian Christian McWhirter works for the Lincoln Presidential Library’s Paper of Abraham Lincoln project.

McWhirter says sheet music is “an often forgotten but extremely effective window into America’s cultural past.”

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