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CollectionAmerican Music Industry Web Archive The American Music Industry Web Archive captures the websites of individuals and companies that represent music creators and are involved broadly in the business of music. This includes mainstream and independent record…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 48 Items
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CollectionAmerican Music Creators Web Archive The American Music Creators Web Archive is a collection of websites of musicians, performers, and composers contributing to the American music scene. The collection strives to be representative of all genres of…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 69 Items
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 288 Items
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CollectionPerforming Arts Web Archive The Performing Arts Web Archive contains web-based content related to the Music Division’s current special collections and rare material holdings. The goal of this web archive collection is to reflect, enhance, and…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
Collection Items: View 151 Items
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CollectionProfessional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive The Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive contains websites and select social media to document professional networks in the performing arts over time. The collection items are those of professional, labor,…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2019
Collection Items: View 425 Items
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CollectionAmerican Folklife Center Web Archive The American Folklife Center Archive, established in the Library of Congress Music Division in 1928 as the Archive of American Folk Song, is now one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials…Collection Items: View 23 Items
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CollectionComics Literature and Criticism Web Archive This collection includes various forms of comics literature and criticism, such as blogs and other online publication platforms, to preserve contemporary discussion regarding this format/genre/subject in its various forms (comic books, comic…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division
- Date: 2018
Collection Items: View 44 Items
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CollectionMusic Treasures Consortium "Um mitternacht" by Franz Schubert. [manuscript score]. Music Division, Library of Congress. About the Music Treasures Consortium The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and…Collection Items: View 3,527 Items
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CollectionThe Moldenhauer Archives - The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and is the richest composite gift…- Contributor: Moldenhauer, Hans
- Date: 1000
Collection Items: View 214 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
Collection Items: View 140 Items
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CollectionTraditional Music and Spoken Word Card Catalog The audio recordings represented in the catalog were recorded between 1897 and 1962. The majority of these are lacquer and aluminum-based instantaneous disc recordings made between 1933 and 1950.- Date: 1897
Collection Items: View 34,217 Items
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CollectionFlorida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections combines sound recordings and manuscript materials from four discrete archival collections made by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers from the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, the…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center - Kennedy, Stetson
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 494 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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CollectionMartha Graham at the Library of Congress Dancer, choreographer, and company director Martha Graham (1894-1991) is considered one of the pioneering founders of American modern dance. In a career spanning over seven decades, Graham developed her own innovative technique…- Contributor: Hindemith, Paul - El-Dabh, Halim - Riegger, Wallingford - Martha Graham Dance Company - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Starer, Robert - Graham, Martha - Karan, Donna - Horst, Louis - Tipton, Jennifer ... Hindemith, Paul - El-Dabh, Halim - Riegger, Wallingford - Martha Graham Dance Company - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Starer, Robert - Graham, Martha - Karan, Donna - Horst, Louis - Tipton, Jennifer - Rosenthal, Jean - Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Barber, Samuel - Ter-Arutunian, Rouben - Skelton, Thomas R. - Noguchi, Isamu - Hovhaness, Alan - Schuman, William - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance - Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance - Lester, Eugene - Dello Joio, Norman - Copland, Aaron - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Emmons, Beverly
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 1,026 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 2,544 Items
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CollectionSouth-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection resulted from an ethnographic field project conducted in the summer of 1977 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment…- Contributor: McGraw, Hugh - Hamrick, Raymond C. - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - American Folklife Center - Robinson, Beverly J. - Coelho, Dennis - Adler, Thomas A. - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - Stanley, David - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Fleischhauer, Carl - Blackmarr, Syd - Marshall, Howard W. - Jabbour, Alan
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 1,121 Items
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CollectionEthnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project The Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project was conducted in 1982 by the American Folklife Center to survey selected religious and secular ethnic community-based schools conducted, at least in part,…- Contributor: Long, Lucy M. - Penti, Marsha Elizabeth - Marks, Morton - McClain, Margy - Sacks, Maurie - Skillman, Amy E. - Arocho, Rudy - Seipel, Sandy - Conklin, Nancy Faires - Tarhan, Lance ... Long, Lucy M. - Penti, Marsha Elizabeth - Marks, Morton - McClain, Margy - Sacks, Maurie - Skillman, Amy E. - Arocho, Rudy - Seipel, Sandy - Conklin, Nancy Faires - Tarhan, Lance - Bromberg, Joann Berlin - Vidutis, Richard - Fleischhauer, Carl - Fast, Jana - Davis, Lee - Haas, Mary-Louise - Feintuch, Burt - Proschan, Frank - Baird, Scott J. - American Folklife Center - Cech, Barbara - Basa, Peter - Leung, John - Westover, Victoria - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - Bradunas, Elena - Gates, Bob - McCallum, Brenda - Nagy, Susan Mary - Miller, Jefferson - Webber, Philip E. - Deak, Frank - Dwyer-Shick, Susan - Bell, Carole O. - Topping, Brett - Fish, Lydia M. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1982
Collection Items: View 788 Items
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