1860 to 1879

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1860-1879 titles include selections from notable opera and operetta composers such as W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Jacques Offenbach, William Vincent Wallace, Michael William Balfe, and more.

Instructions: The primary goal of transcribing sheet music text is to facilitate page-level discovery of lyrics, subjects, and the creators and publishers of the work through the Library's website. Musical notation, performance instructions, and other markings are currently beyond the scope of this program. See our illustrated and downloadable Transcribing Sheet Music PDF for more help and examples

Transcribe titles, lyrics, tempo markings (Moderato, allegro, allegretto, etc.), publication information, and ads.
Transcribe text in the order it appears on the page (this may differ from the order in which it is performed).
Preserve line breaks. If a word is broken across a line or page, transcribe it intact on the initial line where it appears.
Don’t transcribe musical notation - including time and key signatures or dynamic markings (f, p, cresc., dim., <, >, etc.)
Don't transcribe hyphens (or melisma) within lyrics (even if broken across pages), to enable keyword search.
Do transcribe the text of illustrated title pages.
Do transcribe handwritten notes and Library of Congress cataloging stamps as marginalia.