Source for music terms and.....

[Eric Nielsen]

Thanks for the nifty search string, Ben. I learn something all the time
here.

Eric

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > This may be common knowledge, but I just stumbled upon this great
> database
> > (while checking out a vintage banjo) for people who like to research
> > American music. Thought I'd post it--just in case it's not well known to
> > the list.
> >
> > http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/search-music/
> >
> > I only spent a few minutes there and found a page with an early
> occurrence
> > of "jazz":
> >
> >
> http://mtr.arcade-museum.com/MTR-1918-66-21/index.php?page_no=09&frame=MTR-1918-66-21-09.pdf
>
> Even better are these results from 1916:
>
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=site:mtr.arcade-museum.com+jazz|jass+inurl%3A1916
>
> Nothing from 1915, unfortunately.
>
> --bgz
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