Music for Flower Gazing
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
The Music Division has a full crop of music to complement the cherry blossoms, daffodils, and tulips blooming in Washington, D.C.
Posted in: Sheet Music, Special Collections
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Performing Arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive: Part 4
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
This is the final installment in a 4-part series about archived performing arts web content in the Library's Coronavirus Web Archive. This final post focuses on web archives that correspond to archival documents in the Music Division's Performing Arts COVID-19 Response Collection.
Posted in: New Music, Special Collections, Web Archives
Performing Arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive: Part 2
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
In Part 1 of this series, I walked readers through Coronavirus Web Archive items within the theme of financial relief efforts in the performing arts. This second post focuses on medical and public health initiatives specific to the performing arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Special Collections, Web Archives
Performing Arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive: Part 1
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
The Coronavirus Web Archive official landing page and press release came out on #WebArchiveWednesday, February 2, 2022. My first post in this series provides an overview of one of the major thematic areas within the Coronavirus Web Archive: financial relief efforts in the performing arts. Performing arts content is a significant part of the Coronavirus Web Archive numbering over 180 items.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Special Collections, Web Archives
Announcing the Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
The Music Division’s latest web archive collection, the Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive, is ready for you to explore in our digital collections! This collection contains websites and select social media to document professional networks in the performing arts over time. The collection items are those of professional, labor, and advocacy organizations at regional, national, and international levels.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Special Collections, Web Archives
Clifford Hayes, Ben Hunter, Earl McDonald, and the Louisville Jug Bands
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
The following is a guest post by Reader Services Technician Mary Joy Lamb. While working as a technician in the Library of Congress Music Division I came across Clifford Hayes’s copyright lead sheet for “Bye Bye Blues” from 1928. The yellowed paper, the rushed corrections, and the date caught my eye. I snapped an image …
Posted in: Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Musicians
Spring-Themed Online Music Challenge
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
An undeniable musical trend during social distancing right now is the wealth of online music making. In the spirit of music keeping us together while we’re apart, I propose a Spring-Themed Online Music Challenge! Use the sheet music I recommend in this blog post about spring and flowers from the Music Division’s digital collections, make videos, and tag us on social media.
Posted in: Sheet Music, Special Collections
It’s Snow Time!
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Oh give me the snow, the white wing’d snow That falls from the wint’ry sky That robes the earth in a vest of white, And sparkles and shines as the sun’s rich light, Like a starry arch on high. I love the snow! I love the snow! I love the snow! - John Brown, “I Love …
Posted in: Sheet Music
Tania León: The Uncommon Woman
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
This is a guest post by Melinda Gonzalez, a full-time intern working with me through December on an inventory of the Music Division’s primary sources related to Latin American composers. Melinda is here in the Music Division through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HNIP).
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Latin American History, New Music, Women in Music