Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

10/1/1977 - 9/30/1979

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$60,576.40 (approved)
$60,501.40 (awarded)


National Tune Index

FAIN: RT-*0039-78

Sonneck Society (Baltimore, MD 21210-2004)
Carolyn Rabson (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)

To compile computerized index of 18th century Anglo-American secular tunes. The bibliography of approximately 60,000 items will include dances, song collections, instrumental music, theatre music and military music. This project is the first phase of a National Tune Index, a data bank of American music that will provide a new multi-disciplinary research tool.