by Robert M. Keller, Raoul F. Camus,
Kate Van Winkle Keller and Sue Cifaldi
Annapolis, MD: The Colonial Music Institute, 2002
*EASM-cdr:  $25.00

System requirements: Windows 95® (browse & search), or Mac OS 7.6® (browse only), CD-ROM drive, Netscape 4™ or Internet Explorer™
 

This CD-ROM is a series of electronic indexes derived from a database of text and music information compiled from primary sources covering the 250 years of the initial exploration and settlement of the United States. Over 75,000 entries are sorted by text (titles, first lines, recitatives, chorus and burden), and by music incipits (represented in scale degrees, stressed notes and interval sequences), with additional indexes of names and theater works. Most of the entries include a representation of the music in a numerical code so that you can tell how the tune begins.

The original project, The National Tune Index, of which this is an expansion, was initially sponsored by The Sonneck Society, now the Society for American Music, and funded by two major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and several additional grants from the City University of New York Research Award Program. It was published on microfiche by University Music Editions in two parts. The database can be accessed on the Internet at: http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/ as well as on this CD-ROM.