Digital Collections
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Collection10th-16th Century Liturgical Chants The acquisition of medieval liturgical chant manuscripts that trace the history of music notation as it evolved over half a millennium, became a major collection priority in the Music Division beginning in…Collection Items: View 55 Items
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CollectionA.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958 Arthur Paul Schmidt (1846-1921) was a German-born music publisher who pioneered the development and dissemination of American music. The A.P. Schmidt Company Archives documents his firm's publishing activities in Boston, Leipzig and…Collection Items: View 6,687 Items
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CollectionAaron Copland Collection The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through…- Contributor: Copland, Aaron - Kraft, Victor
- Date: 1841
Collection Items: View 982 Items
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CollectionAfrican-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923 The core of this presentation consists of "stock" arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans. In addition, we offer a smaller selection of historic sound recordings…- Date: 1883
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CollectionAlbert Schatz Collection Albert Schatz (1839-1910) was a German music dealer with life-long interest in opera and its history. In 1873, when Schatz assumed ownership of the Musikalienhandlung Ludwig Trutschel Nachfolger in Rostock, Germany, he…Collection Items: View 12,254 Items
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CollectionAmazing Grace This collection highlights the history of the hymn “Amazing Grace” from the earliest printing of the song to selected performances of it on published and field recordings. These items have been collected…- Date: 1930
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CollectionAn American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 326 Items
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CollectionAmerican Choral Music The seventy-six works presented here are limited to a period beginning shortly after the Civil War and ending at 1922. The music selected reflects the diversity of choral music in the collections…- Date: 1865
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CollectionAndre Kostelanetz Collection Andre Kostelanetz (1901-1980) was a Russian-born conductor, arranger, and pianist known for juxtaposing popular and classical repertoire in radio broadcasts during the 1930s and 1940s. He had a highly successful concert career…- Contributor: Kostelanetz, Andre
- Date: 1922
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CollectionBallets Russes de Serge Diaghilev The world of ballet changed dramatically when the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev took Paris by storm at the Théâtre du Châtelet in May of 1909. Armed with ground-breaking choreographic originality and…- Date: 1909
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CollectionBand Music from the Civil War Era On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress re-created a typical concert of brass band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. That concert has become the starting-point for…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
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CollectionBaseball Sheet Music This presentation features 292 items of sheet music that reference baseball from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Many of the items shown represent the earliest widely-distributed baseball collectibles;…Collection Items: View 318 Items
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CollectionBooks About Music Before 1800 Shortly after the Music Division was established 120 years ago, a handful of acquisition priorities were agreed upon: early writings about music published before 1801 were identified as having both historical significance…Collection Items: View 2,006 Items
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CollectionBronislava Nijinska Collection The collection of notable dancer, choreographer and teacher Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) contains a diverse variety of materials documenting dance and the arts in the twentieth century. Available here are over 200 collection…- Contributor: Stravinsky, Igor - Chagall, Marc - Dolin, Anton - Vertès, Marcel - Kirsta, Georg - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Cuevas, George De - Petipa, Marius - Nijinska, Bronislava ... Stravinsky, Igor - Chagall, Marc - Dolin, Anton - Vertès, Marcel - Kirsta, Georg - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Cuevas, George De - Petipa, Marius - Nijinska, Bronislava - Nijinska, Irina - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Ashton, Frederick - Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Jacob's Pillow - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Poulenc, Francis - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Pavlova, Anna - Diaghilev, Serge - Rubinstein, Ida - Exter, Alexandra - Reinhardt, Max
- Date: 1740
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CollectionCambini Quintets Among the Library of Congress's musical treasures are a set of unique manuscripts by Italian composer Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (1746-1825?) that contain music for over 100 of his string quintets. These…Collection Items: View 101 Items
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CollectionThe Carnegie Hall Collection of Conversations with Composers Ellen Taaffe Zwilich held the first Carnegie Hall Composer’s Chair from 1995 to 1999. One of her many initiatives as chair was to build a video archive of interviews with composers whose…Collection Items: View 11 Items
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CollectionCivil War Sheet Music Collection Cover art for "Fire Away Galop" by J. de Jasienski, published by Wm. Hall & Son, New York, 1866. The Civil War Sheet Music Collection at the Library of Congress consists of…- Date: 1860
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CollectionCoptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant and Hymnody With its roots in Ancient Egyptian music, Coptic Christian chant is one of the oldest liturgical genres still performed today. Drawing on the Ragheb Moftah Collection, this presentation explores some of the…- Contributor: Tóth, Margit - Wilson, Marian Robertson - Moftah, Ragheb - Newlandsmith, Ernest
- Date: 1926
Collection Items: View 370 Items
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CollectionThe Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine in London American actor, singer and comedian Danny Kaye arrives with his wife, Sylvia Fine, for an appearance in London. November 1948. Following the professional lives of…- Contributor: Fine, Sylvia - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - Halsman, Philippe - McDowall, Roddy - Kaye, Danny - Dena Pictures, Inc
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,055 Items
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CollectionDayton C. Miller Collection The collection contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and nonwestern…- Contributor: Miller, Dayton Clarence
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 2,636 Items
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CollectionDolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music This presentation explores the influences of country music on Dolly's life and career. Though sometimes overshadowed by the more glamorous aspects of Dolly Parton's popular image, traditional Appalachian folk, country, and bluegrass…- Date: 1946
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CollectionEarly American Sheet Music The Library of Congress classification number M1.A1 includes music printed or 'copied in manuscript' in the United States or the colonies through 1820. As an early record of musical life in America…- Date: 1820
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CollectionElliott Carter Collection Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was one of the most innovative American composers of the twentieth century. An extensive collection of his holograph scores and sketches are available in the Library of Congress, and…Collection Items: View 28 Items
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CollectionErnest Bloch Collection This site features nineteen early manuscript compositions by composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), spanning the period from 1896 to 1916, and comprising a portion of the Ernest Bloch Collection at the Library of…- Contributor: Bloch, Ernest
- Date: 1888
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CollectionFederal Theatre Project, 1935 to 1939 This online presentation includes items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, playbills, programs, and playscripts, including productions…- Contributor: Gottlieb, William P.
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 9,217 Items
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CollectionFelix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress Made available here are digital images of selected resources on this composer. This collection was created to mark the bicentennial of the birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn on February 3, 2009. The…- Date: 1820
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CollectionFranz Liszt at the Library of Congress [Franz Liszt; reproduced in James Huneker's Franz Liszt (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911; page 36).] The Music Division is a vital resource for primary source material related to the life and…Collection Items: View 926 Items
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CollectionGaetano Brunetti Manuscript Scores For much of the 20th century, music's classical period was generally characterized as a Central-European phenomenon, a premise that marginalized contributions from other regions, including Spain. Thankfully, this narrow perspective has been…Collection Items: View 70 Items
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CollectionThe Gerry Mulligan Collection [Portrait of Gerry Mulligan, ca. 1980s] by William P. Gottlieb. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. As a saxophonist, composer, arranger and band leader, Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) is a jazz legend.…- Contributor: McFarland, Gary - Forman, Mitchel - Handy, George - Grusin, Dave - Dankworth, John - Mandel, Johnny - Brookmeyer, Bob - Lee, Julian - Boras, Tom - Holman, Bill - Mulligan, Gerry - Cohn, AL
- Date: 1940
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CollectionGisella Selden-Goth Collection Musicologist and collector Gisella Selden-Goth (1884-1975) amassed an extraordinary collection of holograph music manuscripts during her lifetime, including works by Bach, Chopin, Haydn, and Mozart. In 1963, she placed her collection on…Collection Items: View 29 Items
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CollectionGreat Conversations in Music The programs for "Great Conversations in Music" were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. The four-part series was commissioned by the…- Date: 2001
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CollectionThe Heineman Foundation Collection In 1948, American-born European industrialist and philanthropist Dannie Heineman (1872-1962) and his wife Hettie established the Heineman Foundation for Research, Education, Charitable and Scientific Purposes. Shortly after the foundation’s inception, the Music…- Contributor: Heineman Foundation
- Date: 1494
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CollectionHistoric Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922 Pictured above, Cover art for for "Alice's reverie, op. 18," by J.P. Melmoth, published by Chas. W. Held, New York, 1890. This sheet music collection consists of approximately 9,000 items published from…- Date: 1800
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CollectionHome Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio Before the age of radio, television, and other electronic diversions, families made their own entertainment in the home by playing games, reading aloud, performing plays, and, of course, by making music. Children…- Date: 1800
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CollectionIlka Kolsky Artwork The Russian-born artist Ilka [Irène] Kolsky (1909–1938) worked in Paris in the 1930s. It was in Paris that she and violinist Roman Totenberg became acquainted and developed a close relationship. Kolsky had…Collection Items: View 62 Items
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CollectionIrving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962 The career of Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer, conductor, writer, and academic, is documented in the Library of Congress Music Division by approximately 4,350 items from the Irving Fine Collection. Comprising manuscript and…- Contributor: Fine, Irving
- Date: 1930
Collection Items: View 80 Items
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CollectionLarry Colwell Dance Photographs, 1944-1966 Photographs of dance and dancing are vital visual documentation of dance practices and performance in the United States. This digital collection represents the entire contents of the Music Division’s collection of Larry…- Contributor: Barboza, Anthony - Colwell, Larry
- Date: 1944
Collection Items: View 108 Items
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CollectionLars Schmidt Collection Swedish theatrical producer, director, and publisher Lars Schmidt (1917-2009) spent over 50 years in the theater business. He began as a licensee of American plays and owner of a theater boat in…- Contributor: Schmidt, Lars
- Date: 1910
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CollectionLC Commissioned Composers Web Archive The Music Division has commissioned over 450 composers since 1925, and continues to do so annually. World premiere performances of these commissions usually take place on the Library of Congress Concert Series.…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 286 Items
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CollectionLeonard Bernstein About the Leonard Bernstein Collection The Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress is as exceptional as its name would suggest. Bernstein, arguably the most prominent figure in American classical music…- Contributor: Harmon, Charlie - Gottlieb, Jack - Coates, Helen - Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1900
Collection Items: View 3,832 Items