Scope and Contents note From the Series: While some of the other sections represent attempts to fill out a series on some particular topic, this is a special grouping designed to show the evolution and development of American music as a whole and so it contains early pieces and late, instrumental music and vocal, rarities and commonalities, engraved, stereotyped, lithographed, colored, black and white and non-illustrated covers, minstrel and theatrical pieces, music from the presses of many different publishers from the pens of...