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Posted by: Cait Miller
Louis Armstrong and Lil Hardin Armstrong brought the sounds of New Orleans and Chicago-style jazz to the forefront of America’s early 20th century soundscape. Learn more about Armstrong materials at the Library of Congress in this resource guide.
Posted in: African American History, Blues, Composers, Jazz, Research Guides
Posted by: Cait Miller
Learn about the Library's holdings related to members of the Damrosch family, including Leopold Damrosch (1832–1885), Frank Damrosch, (1859–1937), Clara Damrosch Mannes (1869–1948) and her husband David Mannes (1866–1959), and the conductor/composer Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). Senior Music Reference Specialist Dr. Paul Allen Sommerfeld shares highlights from a newly published research guide on the Damrosch family at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Composers, Conductors, Research Guides
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division’s newest research guide, James Reese Europe: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress, provides a gateway to accessing historic sheet music, unique literary manuscripts, newspaper archives, recordings, photographs and scholarly research by and related to leading cultural figure James Reese Europe (1881-1919).
Posted in: African American History, American history, Jazz, Research Guides, World War I
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Learn about the Library's holdings related to German composer and pianist Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Senior Music Reference Specialist Dr. Paul Allen Sommerfeld shares highlights from a newly published research guide on Schumann at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Composers, Curators, Digital Collections, Musicians, Research Guides
Posted by: Cait Miller
Connect with research guides published by Music Division reference staff in 2024, including a guide to finding music by Jewish composers and composer-specific guides on Victor Herbert, Felix Mendelssohn, and Darius Milhaud.
Posted in: Research Guides
Posted by: Claudia Morales
This season, Concerts from the Library of Congress has showcased the Library’s jazz collections for the esteemed performing artists who have appeared on the series. We are dedicated to fostering reflection and perspective by connecting these artists with our varied collection, ensuring that the work of major artists from the past century remains available to …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Holidays, Instrumentalists, Interviews, Jazz, Musicians, Research Guides, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff Interviews, Women in Music
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
We have several serious baseball fans here in the Music Division. At least several members of our team root for the current hometown Washington Nationals (“N-A-T-S, Nats, Nats, Nats, woo!”), the neighboring Baltimore Orioles (“Let’s Go, O’s!”), and the handful of New England transplants are ardent Boston Red Sox fans. With all this baseball energy …
Posted in: Baseball, Composers, Curators, Digital Collections, Research Guides, Sheet Music
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres, Stacey Jocoy, and Susan Clermont of the Music Division contributed to this blog. Senior Music Reference Specialist Susan Clermont recently published an authoritative annotated bibliography and accompanying research guide focused on the Music Division’s 306 anthologies of music dating from 1463 – 1701. These anthologies comprise over 12,000 individual works by over …
Posted in: Composers, Curators, Digital Collections, Research Guides, Sheet Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
On November 9, 2021, Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz presented a webinar on the creation of the 1957 musical "West Side Story," drawing on materials from the Leonard Bernstein Collection, the Arthur Laurents Papers, and the Oliver Smith Papers to illustrate his talk. Learn more about the history of the musical and how to find digitized "West Side Story" material on the Library's website before viewing the Spielberg's new film adaptation.
Posted in: Musical Theater, Research Guides, Webcasts