ERIC Number: EJ1397754
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Publication Date: 2023
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Link to the Library of Congress: Transcribing Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
Miller, Cait
Music Educators Journal, v110 n1 p17-19 2023
As a music reference librarian at the Library of Congress, Cait Miller gets obscure songs questions that pose greater issues for music librarians because music libraries are generally searchable by format, genre, instrumentation, composer, and/or title but not often by lyrical quotation. New crowdsourcing transcription programs, however, give hope that more detailed keyword searching across historical materials will come to the rescue of researchers seeking to locate previously unsearchable content. In this article she highlights the Library of Congress By the People project, first launched in 2018, which invites everyone and anyone to transcribe, review, and tab digitized pages from the Library's manuscript collections.
Descriptors: Library Services, Transcripts (Written Records), Theater Arts, Music, Singing, Library Materials, Electronic Libraries
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