Songs in the Key of Los Angeles

Culled from the Southern California Sheet Music Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, this unprecedented anthology tells the story of Los Angeles through its songs. Featuring the elaborately designed covers of more than one hundred pieces of vintage sheet music, Songs in the Key of Los Angeles spans 1859 to 1959, offering a rare musical window into Southern California history from mythic Missions to infinite oranges, from rumbling railroads to romantic Ramona . . . and there's Hollywood history, too, harmoniously noted by its music and film industries.