Music education history, catalogued.
Tapes, sheet music, photographs, and documents from school bands, drum corps, college programs, and publisher archives, rooted in Louisiana and growing wherever contributors take it.
New Ways Into the Archive, and a Long List of Repairs
Organizations, collections and purposes are now real ways to browse. There is a public list of music nobody has identified, recordings can be pointed at a moment, publishers can finally be credited properly, and you can catalogue material you do not physically hold.
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Archive items
234
Sheet music works
10
Contributors
130+
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Other ways in
Format is one way to look at an archive. These are the others.
Organizations
Everything from one school, corps or college program.
Collections
Material as it arrived, with the original folder labels kept as written.
Purposes
Drill designs, method books, clinic material: what something was for.
Unidentified music
Titles named on programs and recordings that nobody has placed yet. You might.
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View all →The Best of '78 Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble
New Music for Jazz Ensemble Volume XII
Excellent condition
1978 New Music Clinic Program (Louisiana Bandmaster's Accociation)
Official program booklet for the Louisiana Bandmasters Association Annual New Music Clinic and Marching Band Clinic. ~22 pages including schedule of sessions, clinician bios, new-music reading lists, advertisements, exhibitor/sustaining-member listings, and handwritten annotations.
The Music Of Claude T. Smith - Jenson Publications LP (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3JdI6k2mjk&t=93s
Frank Marinaro Scrapbook (1967-1982) — Photos 9
Frank Marinaro Scrapbook (1967-1982) — Photos 10
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