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- Sample Offerings
- Donation Discs
- Mission Statement
- American Music Chronology
- American Music Recordings Collection
- Multi-media Americana Music Series
- National Carry A Tune Week
- American Music Preservation Links
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American Music Preservation.com is a web site devoted to providing
accurate information and news of recent research and publications.This site is not a free answering service for locating songs or recordings. A research fee must be charged for questions that require considerable research.
But general questions about any of the topics covered on this site may be answered without a fee.
Students or scholars doing research in music from earlier America
are encouaged to submit items of interest to this website where they can be posted, subject to approval by the Moderator.
For more information about submitting items, click on this link to read the
These are some of the items available...
CDs
Christmas Music in New England
American Music Recordings Collection
Multi-media CDs and DVDs
DVD: Cowboy Song Corral Round-Up and Peace-Lovin Blues Memoir
DVD -
Film Music Master:
A Tribute to Bernard Herrmann
Multi-media CD -
Gentle Words:
Shaker Music in the 20th Century
In Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary
of the Civil War
Glory, Hallelujah -
Songs and Hymns of the Civil War
“How Beautiful Upon The Mountains”:
Music by E.A. Jones (1853-1911)
"LAND OF OUR HEARTS":
A New England Music Miscellany
Lincoln and Liberty:
Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
"MILLENNIAL PRAISES" - Singing in Earlier America,
From the Pilgrims to the Shakers
The Musical Telephone:
A Romantic Narrative (one act play)
"OLD STOUGHTON":
Singing Meetings and Concerts
(America's oldest choral society)
Deluxe DVD:
Preserving Our Musical Past
(with hundreds of music examples)
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" -
Electric Elvis and Bill Randle
THE STORY OF SIMPLE GIFTS:
Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song
Pamphlet
Blended Together:
Discoveries Along The Shaker Music Trail
Shaker Music
Distant Echoes:
Preserving Earlier American Music
Complete list of publications at
Donations Discs
This music preservation site needs your support. Please consider making a donation with a credit card, payable to PineTree Productions, through safe and secure PayPal.
For a donation of $20 (one CD) or $30 (any two CDs) you will receive your choice of these CDs, including Free Shipping:
American Music Preservation Sampler (20 tracks of New England music, Shaker music, American composers, Film music, Popular songs)
Bernard Herrmann Radio Tributes (Film music)
Father Kemp's Old Folks Concert Music (New England music)
The Humble Heart: 24 Shaker Spirituals (Shaker music)
Jazz On Screen - Movies and Television (Big bands and popular singers)
Johnny Mercer On Radio and Records (Popular songs)
Musick in Old Boston (New England composers)Remembering Radio: Great Songwriters and Singers (Popular songs)
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Mission Statement
The goals of American Music Preservation.com are these...
- To Present
information about American music from the 17th to 20th centuries,
especially little known or forgotten events.
For example: the Chicago World's Fair Concerts of 1893.
- To Promote
worthwhile music for today's audience through rare recordings.
For example: the American Music Recordings Archive.
- To Protect
the songwriter or composer by giving proper credit.
For example: the song not co-written by Elvis Presley, "Love Me Tender."
- To Provide
accurate information about a song or other piece of music.
For example: the popular Shaker song, "Simple Gifts (Tis the gift to be simple) "
American Music Chronology (2 CDs)
For CD track listings click on this link
American Music Recordings Collection
A series of rare recordings and music collections focusing on the areas covered on this site and divided into these categories:
I. Composers and Compositions
II. Music Interviews
III. Earlier Americana
IV. Film Music
V. Resource PublicationsSee the complete list at:
Multi-media Music Series
on CDs and DVDs
Read more at:
Multimedia Americana Music Series [MAMS]
Contact Information
Send your inquiries to:
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Resource Information
There are many titles available for
research, teaching or just listening in theAmerican Music Recordings Archive [AMRA]
Survey of Essential American Songs [SEAS]
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Website Topics
Because American music is so vast a subject, not all of it can be covered on this website. This is not intended to slight any other music, such as jazz, blues, gospel music or any other genre of music.
These five areas of vintage music were selected because it was felt
they were more in need of preserving their heritage:
National Carry A Tune Week
This is a free annual online survey held every year near the birthday of William Billings (1746-1800), America's first important tune composer, and sponsored by The Tune Lovers Society
13th Annual National Carry A Tune Week Survey
(October 6-12, 2013)This event is listed under October 6 in this annual directory:
Chase's Calendar of Events 2013
For more information about this annual event,
click here
Click on the links to see the tunes chosen for this annual event:
12th Annual Week: October 7-13, 2012
1th Annual Week: October 2-8, 2011
10th Annual Week: October 3 - 9, 2010
9th Annual Week: October 4-10, 2009
8th Annual Week: October 5 - 11, 2008
7th Annual Week: October 7 - 13, 2007
6th Annual Week: October 1 - 7, 2006
5th Annual Week: October 2 - 8, 2005
4th Annual Week: October 3 -9, 2004
3rd Annual Week, October 6 - 12, 2003
2nd Annual Week, October 7 - 13, 2002
1st Annual Week, October 7 - 13, 2001
Alexander's Ragtime Band Centennial (1911-2011)
AMP Links
Classical Music
Francis Hopkinson and The First American Song
American Composers Web PollPineTree Music (music by Roger Lee Hall)
Shaker Music
Shaker Music CDs and DVDs
Shaker Music History
Film Music
100 Essential Film Scores of the 20th Century
Best Film Music CDs of the Decade (2000-2009)Film Composers and Soundtracks
Film Music Review (online magazine)
Popular Songs
Survey of Essential American Songs (1759-1961)
100 Essential Songs of the 20th Century
Popular Songwriters and The Great American Songbook
New England Music
New England Composer Series No. 1: Edwin A. Jones
New England Composer Series No. 2: George W. Chadwick
New England Music Archive [NEMA]
New England Harmony: Six Early Composers
New England Song Series No. 1:
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC and JOHN BROWN SongNew England Song Series No. 2: GOIN' HOME
New England Song Series No. 3: JINGLE BELLS
New England Song Series No. 4: SIMPLE GIFTSNew England Song Series No. 5: SONG OF THE OLD FOLKS
New England Song Series No. 6:
THE BOSTON YANKEE DOODLE BALLADSinging Stoughton and the Oldest Choral Society in the U.S.A.
Other Resource Links
American Music Recordings Collection [AMRC]
Essential American Recordings Survey [EARS]
Multimedia Americana Music Series [MAMS]
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