Data Collection Hightlights

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10356 Monophonic Songs

• Essen Folksong Collection: 8473 folksongs encoded by Helmut Schaffrath. Largest categories are Germany (5365 songs), and China (2246 songs). Remaining songs are from other parts of Europe (848), the Americas (13), Asia (5), and Africa (1).
• 1000 songs encoded by Daimen Sagrillo:
  • 612 songs from Luxembourg
  • 326 songs from the Lorraine region of France
  • 62 songs from Ireland
• 373 Native American songs collected by Frances Densmore:
  • Sioux Music Bulletin 61, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1918 (245 songs).
  • Pawnee Music Bulletin 93, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1926 (86 songs).
  • Chippewa [Ojibway] Music Bulletin 45, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1909 (42 songs). [see also].
• 152 songs from Nova Scotia, Canada, collected by Helen Creighton
  
• 80 songs from the Friuli region in north-eastern Italy.
  
• 67 pentatonic songs
• 53 British children's songs
• 38 songs by Stephen Foster
• 35 songs by Franz Schubert
• 31 Chinese folksongs
• 29 songs by George Gershwin
• 24 African songs

Harmonized Songs

• Bach Chorales:
  • 371 Chorales intitially collected by C.P.E. Bach after J.S.Bach's death (includes chorales from lost works)
  • 185 Chorales from the extant Cantatas, BWV 253-438 [see also]
  • 69 Chorales with harmonic analyses [see also]
• 232 songs from the Deutscher Liederschatz, collected by Ludwig Erk
• One Hundred English Folksongs arranged by Cecil J. Sharp (1 song)
• Seventy Scottish Songs arranged by Helen Hopekirk (1 song)

String Quartets

• Haydn String Quartets (212 movements)
• 23 String Quartets by Mozart (82 movements)
• 16 String Quartets by Beethoven (71 movements)
• Schubert String Quartets (5 movements)
• Brahms String Quartet, op. 51 (2 movements)

Piano Sonatas

• 32 Sonatas by Beethoven (102 movements)
• 59 Sonatas by Scarlatti
• 17 Sonatas by Mozart (51 movements)
• Haydn Piano Sonatas (17 movements)
• Clementi 6 Progressive Sonatinas (17 movements)
• Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major (1 movement)
• Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7 (1 movement)
• Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in B-flat major in one movement

Other keyboard music

• Chopin: 52 Mazurkas, 24 Preludes
• Scott Joplin: Complete works for piano

Miscellaneous

• Jazz chords with roots on all pitch classes.
• Tuning and temperament examples
• Dice music from the 18th century