Today I managed to input 76 more cards of drawer 3 of the sheet music collection project. Aside from the routine cards, oddities included finding what seemed to be a card listing more than one piece of music on it (two different titles and composers), a possible spelling error ("wondring"?), and uncertainties about titles because of two different titles separated by forward slashes (/). I tried Googling some of these titles to see if they could be uniform or alternate or subtitles but most of these songs are so little-known, I couldn't turn up anything whereas normally I usually get some page hits on lyrics sites for the more famous songs to be able to discern possible alternate title designations. Aside from this, two general questions came up: 1) what to do (if anything) about cards which have notations of them such as "pre-1900". The dates are already noted on the spreadsheet so for now I'm not including these notations anywhere. I'm not certain they need to be included in the spreadsheet because they don't seem to fit under any of the current fields and 2) a concern another person working on this project brought up, which is if "popular song sheet" really belongs in the instrumentation field. It never occurred to me before, but it makes sense. Please see my comment to Emily Perkins's last post dated January 2 to see my thoughts on this. Thanks!
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