Brill Building lead sheets

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id: 802
origination: Various composers and authors.
date statement: 1954-1963
key date: 1954
identifier (local_mss): 20294
org unit: Music Division
call number: JPB 00-51
b-number: b15994151
total components: 439
total series: 0
max depth: 2
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component layout: Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields: false
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created: 2013-04-01 14:59:01 UTC
updated: 2026-01-20 20:50:30 UTC
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unitid: {"value"=>"JPB 00-51", "type"=>"local_call"}

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unitdate: {"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1954/1963", "value"=>"1954-1963"}
date_inclusive_start: 1954
date_inclusive_end: 1963
keydate: 1954
date_start: 1954
date_end: 1963
unittitle: {"value"=>"Brill Building lead sheets"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 300 items of music"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"33 cm. or smaller"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository: {"value"=>"The New York Public Library. Music Division. <div class=\"address\"> New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</div>"}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite: {"value"=>"Brill Building lead sheets, Music Division, The New York Public Library"}
origination: {"value"=>"Various composers and authors."}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"These pre-publication lead sheets come from the range of publishers that encompass the \"Brill Building Sound\" not simply those published at the Brill Building's 1619 Broadway address. They are part of the popular song collection in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and were acquired in 1966 from George Goodwin. Goodwin was a sheet music collector, radio station director, and developer of the Tune-Dex, a comprehensive 25,000 card catalog index of popular songs used extensively in the music industry. Each lead sheet entry contains the exact copyright information for each song exactly as it appears along with the publisher's street address at the time of publication. There is also a note on each song (probably written by Mr. Goodwin) as to the recording artist and label on which the recorded song was issued. The markings on many of these sheets may have been made possibly during demo recording. For more information on this collection see: George Boziwick, \"Brill Building Pop: Music Division Lead Sheets Document an Era\". Research Libraries Notes. Vol. 7, nos. 1 & 2, Winter/Spring, 1995."}
note: {"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Chiefly reproduced from ms. with annotations in ink or pencil"}

{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Lead sheets"}

{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Various composers and authors"}

{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Various publishers, many with the original Brill Building address, 1619 Broadway, New York City. The term \"Brill Building\" has come to be associated with a particular era and sound of music"}

{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Some items are inscribed with name of recording artist and record label"}

{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Complete contents list in repository"}
extent_statement: ca. 300 items of music
abstract: {"value"=>" These pre-publication lead sheets come from the range of publishers that encompass the \"Brill Building Sound\" not simply those published at the Brill Building's 1619 Broadway address. They are part of the popular song collection in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and were acquired in 1966 from George Goodwin. Goodwin was a sheet music collector, radio station director, and developer of the Tune-Dex, a comprehensive 25,000 card catalog index of popular songs used extensively in the music industry.", "generated"=>true}

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