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California sheet music composer William J. McCoy (1854-1926) is described in a new finding aid of the San Francisco Public Library which describes his life and compositions. A search on McCoy's name (click on SEARCH 1 above) turns up 5 of his pieces in digital image.

A final LSTA grant from the California State Library (FY 2000) has allowed completion of cataloging of the 2000 items. With 1997-1999 grants 1400 items were cataloged in MARC/SGMLformat and made available through "Search 1". All images are now available through RLIN and its web version Eureka. All records will soon be loaded on this site (Search 1), Pathfinder (UC Berkeley web resource), and MELVYL, the University of California web catalogue.

Concert, October 1998. Music Sources, Berkeley, CA.

Performances, Gold Rush Cornet Band; Mother Lode Musical Theatre

A summer 1998 grant from HUD's Joint Community Development program, administered through UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development brought the collection of early California music of the Paramount Theatre Music Library (Oakland, Calif.), into the project.

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Selected examples of the repertoire.
• Champagne Charlie. Written by G. C. H. Music by Alfred Lee. San Francisco, Matthias Gray. Engraved plate number: M.G. 120. Personal copy.
• The Mission Band Coon Song. Words and music by H. Y. Leavitt. Supplement to The San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, July 10, 1898. Orginally published New York: Willis Woodward & Co., 842/844 Broadway, c1898. Personal copy.

• Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries Covers only; 5-field description.
• Music for a Nation--American Sheet Music, 1870-1885. American Memory Project, Library of Congress. 22,000 items of sheet music from copyright deposit.
• African American Sheet Music--1850-1920, Brown University Library.
  19th Century Color Lithographic Sheet Music Covers. An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, Brown University, September - October 1996. Covers only, 7-field description with annotation.
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University Covers and music; 13-field description.
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. The 30,000 ballads from the 16th- to the 20th-Century include some California imprints and many ballads about traveling to California, the gold rush, and the immigrant experience.
• University of North Texas, Lully Web Project. Cover images plus MIDI incipit sound files. Detailed fact sheet on work, description of volume in collection, performance history, further bibliography.
• University of South Florida, Tampa Campus, Library, Special Collections. Florida Sheet Music Collection. Cover images. Title or name search; display of place, publisher, date.
• Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132. Sheet music (50,000), song broadsides (4900), posters, playbills, strong on minstrel music. No images.