This blog is usually reserved for posting about resources available through the Music & Media Center but the Louisiana Sheet Music Collection, owned by the Hogan Jazz Archive and available online through The Tulane Digital Library, is so fantastic it has to be written about. The collection includes sheet music composed by some of New Orleans's best known musicians, Louis Moreaux Gottschalk being at the top of the list, as well as a few classical pieces by composers significant during their time but largely forgotten with the passing of time. Classical music isn't all, though - you'll also find representations of ragtime and early jazz, popular dance music, Creole songs, Confederate anthems, and even Mexican and Cuban danzas and danzon.
The search interface allows you to easily browse the collection to view high quality scans of the music. It also offers several refinement options to narrow your results list by date, composer, title, and topic. For those of you interested in textual analysis, you can even search within a document for specific words.In short, this is a digital collection full of research potential.
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