We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Every piece of music, artist and composer is listed in proper alphabetical place. Every record bears its number, size and Catalog price. Moreover, both the compositions on a record are listed together; if you look for a given title, you can see exactly what is on the other side of the record.
Take, for instance, record No. 6584:
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Now look under ““T,” and you will find it thus:
Tales from the Vienna Woods—Waltz (Strauss) Philadelphia Orchestra? 6584 12 2.00 Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) Philadelphia Orchestra
To make the Catalog complete as possible, we frequently list the same piece under different headings. An operatic record may be listed under the opera from which it is taken; under the artist recording it, or under its composer, at the end of the white-paged section of the Catalog.
A standard song or instrumental composition may be similarly listed, in all three places. Dance records and march records also are grouped under “Dance” and ‘‘March,” or under the names of the artists making them; and they will always be found in proper alphabetical place as well—exactly like the names in the telephone book. You will find other interesting classifications. It will pay you to examine the Catalog thoroughly.
Operatic record listings have the following helps: Almost every opera from which we are making records, is listed with the place and date of its first performance; many have sketches of their plots; here and there is an actual pictured scene; every record is listed under the title of the opera, and in the exact order, in the plot, in which it is sung or played, by act and scene. And you will find also, portraits of many artists and sketches of their careers.
The Red Seal records, beside being listed in the alphabetical section of the Catalog, are grouped together into a special “Red Seal Section” with light red pages. Following this is the “Green” section of records chiefly made in earlier years, which we retain for historic or sentimental reasons, or by public demand. This is fully explained on the page introducing this section.
Most Victor records are made with an accompaniment by the full orchestra. Where the piano or other instrument is used, or where a composition is played or sung unaccompanied, you will usually find this specified in the Catalog.
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