Collection Items

  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Root, George F. (George Frederick)
    • Date: 1865
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia Illustrated Cover. Color Cover. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1893
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia Illustrated Cover. Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1865
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Habington, Prof - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1892
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia Illustrated Cover. Color Cover. Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Page, N. Clifford - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1908
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia, triumphal march Illustrated Cover. Color Cover. p. 6, color advertisement Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Dressler, Wm
    • Date: 1884
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Georgia Location: Box 86 For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002003 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1865
  • Notated Music
    Marching through Germany For voice and piano. To the tune of Marching through Georgia. Includes words to Rawling's Don't be a shirk on page 4. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation.
    • Contributor: Rawlings, R. C. - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1917
  • Notated Music
    Marching thro' Georgia Illustrated Cover. Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Mack, E. - Work, H. C.
    • Date: 1884
  • Audio Recording
    Marching through Georgia; Furnace song
    • Contributor: Palmer, Mason - Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1938-09-16
  • Notated Music
    Remember boy this land of ours : Introducing strains from "Ma... For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation.
    • Contributor: Shontze, Edith Hyman - Wall, John E.
    • Date: 1917
  • Notated Music
    Marching on to Germany! : we fight for liberty! For chorus SATB. "To the music of Marching through Georgia." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation.
    • Contributor: Biersach, Paul C. - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1917
  • Notated Music
    We will make the Kaiser wiser : America's two greatest war ma... For voice and piano. Includes two separate songs (under same title) set to music of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Marching Through Georgia. Staff notation. 200198456
    • Contributor: Baer, Carl J. - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1918
  • Notated Music
    Empire state grand march Illustrated Cover. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Schreiner, Hermann L.
    • Date: 1864
  • Notated Music
    Shermans Savannah march Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bowers, Lizzie
    • Date: 1865
  • Notated Music
    Sherman's march to the sea Illustrated Cover. Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Rockwell, J. O. - Byers, S. H. M.
    • Date: 1882
  • Notated Music
    Sherman's march to the sea Illustrated Cover. Color Cover. Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Rockwell, J. O. - Byers, S. H. M.
    • Date: 1865
  • Notated Music
    Sherman's march to the sea Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Rockwell, J. O. - Byers, S. H. M.
    • Date: 1865
  • Notated Music
    Col. Hall's grand march Illustrated Cover. Color Cover. cover, black print on brown stock. Color lithograph p. 1 Music associated with the Union side Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Jarvis, Charles H.
    • Date: 1862
  • Notated Music
    Come on! Come on! Our nation needs you now! To arms! To arms!... For voice and piano. "Melody: marching through Georgia"--Caption. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation. Additional lyrics printed as text.
    • Contributor: Parrish, Rob Roy McGregor - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1917
  • Notated Music
    Come on! Come on! Our nation needs you now! Ancestors taught ... For voice and piano. "Melody: marching through Georgia"--Caption. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Staff notation. Additional lyrics printed as text.
    • Contributor: Parrish, Rob Roy McGregor - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
    • Date: 1917
  • Biography
    Henry Clay Work Biography. Henry Clay Work (1832-1884) was born in Middleton, CT to abolitionist parents. A printer by trade and self-taught song composer, Work was employed by the Root & Cady music publishing house in Chicago and published his first song in 1853. Known for his emotionally charged Civil War songs such as Marching Through Georgia (1865), he was one of the most popular songwriters of...
  • Article
    Ethiopia Saluting the Colors by Henry (Harry) T. Burleigh, 1866-1949
  • Biography
    Robert Winslow Gordon (1888-1961) Biography. Robert Winslow Gordon in a portrait taken in 1928, when he joined the staff of the Library of Congress as the first Head of the Archive of American Folk Song. Photo courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nye.
    • Contributor: Gordon, Robert Winslow
  • Article
    History of Ragtime Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions. By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. The popularity and demand for ragtime also boosted sale of pianos and greatly swelled...
  • Biography
    Alan Lomax (1915-2002) Biography. Alan Lomax (left), age 20, and an unidentified child on board a boat during the Library of Congress field trip to the Bahamas, 1935. Lomax Collection, Prints and Photographs Division [LOT 7414-H, no. N251-1].
  • Notated Music
    The spirit of 1917 : patriotic songs For chorus SATB, unaccompanied. Staff notation. 200205003
    • Contributor: Rhys-Herbert, W. (William) - Shaw, David T. - Root, George F. (George Frederick) - Johnston, Edward F. - Keller, M. (Matthias) - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay) - Emmett, Daniel Decatur - Bradbury, William B. (William Batchelder) - Schloeder, Jacob H. - Phile, Philip - Kittredge, Walter
    • Date: 1917
  • Article
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  • Article
    African American Gospel African American Gospel music is a form of euphoric, rhythmic, spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of the African American South. Its development coincided with -- and is germane to -- the development of rhythm and blues.
  • Article
    War and Conflict War has played no small part in the history of American song. Some of the nation's oldest folk and pop songs celebrate important victories, the experiences of soldiers and sailors, or the loss of loved ones.
  • Article
    Ragtime Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions. By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. The popularity and demand for ragtime also boosted sale of pianos and greatly swelled...
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    1939 Southern Recording Trip Fieldnotes
    • Contributor: Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
    • Date: 1939
  • Article
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  • Article
    Songs of Immigration and Migration As Europeans colonized North America, beginning with the Spanish and French in the 1500s and the British and Dutch in the early 1600s, colonists brought their cultural entertainments along with them. Songs brought to colonial America continued to be sung in their early forms, so that later scholars of songs and ballads, such as the British ethnomusicologist Cecil Sharp and American ballad scholar Francis...
  • Article
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  • Article
    Traditional Ballads Introduction Traditional ballads are narrative folksongs - simply put, they are folksongs that tell stories. They tell all kinds of stories, including histories, legends, fairy tales, animal fables, jokes, and tales of outlaws and star-crossed lovers. ("Ballad" is a term also used in the recording industry for slow, romantic songs, but these should not be confused with traditional or folk ballads.) Many traditional ballads...