Collections with Notated Music
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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…
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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
Collection Items: View 363 Items
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CollectionThe Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana The collection contains more than 11,100 items. This online release presents more than 1,300 items with more than 4,000 images and a date range of 1824-1931. It includes the complete collection of…
- Contributor: Stern, Alfred Whital - Library of Congress - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 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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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 196 Items
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CollectionMusic for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860 Consists of over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1820 to 1860. This collection complements an earlier American Memory project, Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music…
- Date: 1820
Collection Items: View 15,479 Items
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CollectionMusic for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870-1885 Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method…
- Date: 1870
Collection Items: View 47,574 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 185 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 193 Items
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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;…
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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: Singaevsky, Nicholas - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Poulenc, Francis - Dolin, Anton - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Cuevas, George De - Chagall, Marc - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Diaghilev, Serge - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich ... Singaevsky, Nicholas - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Poulenc, Francis - Dolin, Anton - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Cuevas, George De - Chagall, Marc - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Diaghilev, Serge - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Vertès, Marcel - Pavlova, Anna - Exter, Alexandra - Kirsta, Georg - Rubinstein, Ida - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky - Nijinska, Bronislava - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Stravinsky, Igor - Nijinska, Irina - Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Jacob's Pillow - Petipa, Marius - Ashton, Frederick
- Date: 1740
Collection Items: View 211 Items
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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…
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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
Collection Items: View 55 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
Collection Items: View 2,577 Items
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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: Moftah, Ragheb - Wilson, Marian Robertson - Tóth, Margit - 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: Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - Dena Pictures, Inc - Halsman, Philippe - Fine, Sylvia - Kaye, Danny - McDowall, Roddy
- Date: 1913
Collection Items: View 2,055 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 2,492 Items
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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…
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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
Collection Items: View 25 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…
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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…
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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: Handy, George - Brookmeyer, Bob - Holman, Bill - Dankworth, John - Boras, Tom - Grusin, Dave - Cohn, AL - McFarland, Gary - Forman, Mitchel - Mulligan, Gerry - Lee, Julian - Mandel, Johnny
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 151 Items
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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…
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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
Collection Items: View 449 Items
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CollectionFiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was…
- Contributor: Glenroy, William B. - Reed, Henry - Ricci, Glenn - American Folklife Center - Reed, Watha - Reed, Gene - Jabbour, Alan
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 292 Items
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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
Collection Items: View 7,862 Items
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CollectionThe March King: John Philip Sousa Painting of Sousa during US Marine Band era, [n.d.]. Performing Arts Reading Room.
- Contributor: Sousa, John Philip
- Date: 1849
Collection Items: View 682 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: Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Graham, Martha - Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance - Emmons, Beverly - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Lester, Eugene - El-Dabh, Halim - Karan, Donna - Skelton, Thomas R. - Hindemith, Paul ... Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress) - Graham, Martha - Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance - Emmons, Beverly - Weissberger, L. Arnold - Lester, Eugene - El-Dabh, Halim - Karan, Donna - Skelton, Thomas R. - Hindemith, Paul - Tipton, Jennifer - Ter-Arutunian, Rouben - Menotti, Gian Carlo - Riegger, Wallingford - Starer, Robert - Schuman, William - Noguchi, Isamu - Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance - Hovhaness, Alan - Horst, Louis - Martha Graham Dance Company - Copland, Aaron - Barber, Samuel - Dello Joio, Norman - Rosenthal, Jean
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 1,026 Items
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CollectionMartorell Collection In 1910, the Music Division purchased an extensive collection of copyist music manuscripts that we believe were once owned by the family of Alonso Tomás Álvarez de Toledo y Silva (1835-1895), X…
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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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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…
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CollectionSheet Music of the Musical Theater Sheet Music of the Musical Theater is a collection of more than 16,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1880 and 1922. These songs, specified as “M1508” items in the Library’s classification…
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CollectionAmerica Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Contains 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 4,292 Items
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CollectionPatriotic Melodies Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and…
- Date: 1900
Collection Items: View 175 Items
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CollectionPre-1700 Musical Treasures: Manuscript and Print Collection Among the thousands of rare books in the Music Division’s custody, there is an exceptional group of musical scores assembled under the Library of Congress classification M1490. This classification comprises approximately 400…
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CollectionRagtime Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. See, hear, explore and learn!
- Date: 1890
Collection Items: View 190 Items
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CollectionRoman Totenberg Papers The violinist Roman Totenberg enjoyed an extraordinarily long and varied career. Born on January 1, 1911 in Łódź, Poland, he moved as a child with his family to Moscow where he first…
- Contributor: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Dvořák, Antonín - Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Paganini, Nicol - Schubert, Franz - Milhaud, Darius - Brahms, Johannes - Totenberg, Roman - Kolsky, Ilka
- Date: 1846
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