Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress

Selected music manuscripts from the Ernest Bloch Collection made available to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer's death.

Music transcriptions, audio, video, photos, maps, books, & essays from the the Ragheb Moftah Collection. Learn more about current scholarship and what is happening in the Coptic community today.

Lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music.

Musical Instruments at the Library of Congress includes recordings, articles, and photos of the Library's collection of string, wind and folk instruments.

An online exhibition highlighting one of the most influential dance companies of the twentieth century; objects primarily from the Library's Bronislava Nijinska collection.