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American Sacred Music
American Sacred Music provides fulltext access to sacred music published in the United States, with a focus on publications from the Midwest. Dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, these are primarily collections of hymns and anthems, with other types of sacred music, such as cantatas and revival songs, also represented.
This digital collection is intended to illustrate the variety of religious and sacred music found within the musical life of Wisconsin. The publications make clear that hymns, anthems and sacred songs were by no means restricted to congregational singing during church services. At revival meetings, at home, at singing schools and in the classroom, sacred music was an important community activity.
Many of these volumes were gifts, for which the Mills Music Library is grateful. A few bear markings of congregations in Wisconsin or of individuals. Additional items will added throughout the next few years.
Please note that full-text searching is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text. Indexes, introductory and instructional material usually return accurate results. However, words within the music notation are more likely to have errors.
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To consult the source material in the American Sacred Music Collection, please visit the Mills Music Library. For further information, contact the reference desk at (608) 263-1884 or askmusic@library.wisc.edu.
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This compilation (including design, introductory text, organization, and descriptive material) is copyrighted by University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.
Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes, or any other use falling within the purview of "Fair Use".
In all other cases, please consult the terms provided with the item, or contact the Libraries.
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