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Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
In celebration of the Virtual National Book Festival, this blog post provides an overview of the Music Division's many digital collections and other content available online.
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Jazz, Newly Cataloged, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
A new research guide helps users discover and view the print, manuscript, and digital collections specific to the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the Library’s Music Division.
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
This final post in a series of three on musical vacations heads to the beach for sun, surf, and shellfish.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Holidays, Musical Theater, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Part two of this three part travel series takes - through music - a road trip through the historic sites Chalmette Battlefield, Keweenaw National Historical Park, and National Historic Landmark in Kent, Ohio.
Posted in: Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Holidays
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Part one of this three part travel series takes - through music - a road trip out west to Death Valley, Lassen Peak, Yellowstone, and Lake Louise.
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Holidays, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music, Sound recordings, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
When searching for someone to compose a pianoforte arrangement of their immensely popular comic opera The Mikado, the theatrical duo plucked a young former shoemaker from Lynn, Massachusetts.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
The concluding part of this two-part survey of music and disease looks at examples that arose from pandemics in the 19th and 20th centuries, including: works by Stephen Foster and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel written in the wake of a series of cholera outbreaks, and the sometimes curiously lighthearted musical response to the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Sacred music, Sheet Music, World War I
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Before the dawn of the Third Reich, Jewish scholar Hugo Leichtentritt encountered three fellow musicologists: Oscar Sonneck, Carl Engel, and Harold Spivacke. Each of these men would assume the role of Chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress and be instrumental to the preservation of the oeuvres of international artists, including Leichtentritt.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Jewish American History, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Meet three members of the Seeger Family—Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and their daughter Peggy Seeger—through their music, writings, and correspondence in the newly described Seeger Family Collection. This wide-ranging and personal collection provides a number of avenues for research in folk and modern music, musicology, and family history.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections, Women in Music