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New England Music
Read about the 2006 anniversaries of Benjamin Franklin and Wolfgang Mozart here:
You can read about music by these New England composers:
See the list of Top 40 titles from New England's distant past at
What is the oldest choral organization in the United States?
To find out, click on this link:
Classical Composers
See the list of recordings available at:
American Music Recordings Collection [AMRC]
Read the composer tributes at:
See the list of American composers who have been selected for
Favorite American Composers Web Poll
Read about the activities and recordings of the
Society for Earlier American Music [SEAM]
Popular Songs
To see the survey lists from this annual event, click on these links:National Carry A Tune Week 2008
National Carry A Tune Week 2007
National Carry A Tune Week 2006
National Carry A Tune Week 2005
1956 was an important year in American popular songs, with the shift away from adult pop music and the emergence of Elvis Presley as a superstar. To read about his early career, see
How many songs from the 1950s do you know? See the lists of 50 songs as you are
Remembering 1956
Remembering 1957
Remembering 1958A list of vintage songwriters plus a short video featuring a lively song played by George Gershwin at the piano can be found at this link:
See also these links about cowboy music:
"The Last Round-Up": A Tribute to Bill Hill
Shaker Music
Read about the history of America's oldest communal society at this link:
Did you know that the most famous Shaker song, "Simple Gifts," was not a hymn ?
Find out more atJoseph Brackett's 'Simple Gifts'
For a list of recordings of original and arranged Shaker tunes, go here:
See a photo of the historic meeting when
Aaron Copland Meets the Shakers
Film Music
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Film Composers and Soundtracks
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