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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
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
Discusses the numerous Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated manuscript film scores in the Music Division's collections.
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Film Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Discusses the story behind two copyright deposit versions of the theme for Star Trek: The Original Series.
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Film Music, Guest bloggers
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Taylor McClaskie is one of the Music Division’s summer 2019 interns. She is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Case Western Reserve University and is currently writing a dissertation on music and environmental activism in 1980s America. During my time in the Music Division I have been helping to process and catalogue unpublished popular music …
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Women in Music, Women in Theater
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Shares the history of baseball legend Addie Joss and the song "When the Naps are Playing Baseball."
Posted in: Baseball, Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Sheet Music
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Takes an inside look at Disney scores in the Music Division of the Library of Congress to share the fascinating story of unused songs from the 1950 animated film Cinderella.
Posted in: Copyright Deposits, Film Music, Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Multiple news articles have heralded the many works and publications that entered the public domain on January 1st of 2019. Pieces of music, novels, and films alike have become available within the United States without copyright permissions. With the changes in copyright status, I wondered exactly how much of the Music Division’s substantial collection of …
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Film Music