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Posted by: Cait Miller
I was excited to notice in yesterday’s Top 11 In the Muse Posts of 2012 that last year’s Downton Abbey-related “Sheet Music of the Week: Roses of Picardy” post made the list, so I’m back today with another selection featured in last Sunday’s season three premiere! If you are a regular viewer, you will remember …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
For years now In the Muse has been highlighting digitized sheet music from our collections in our “Sheet Music of the Week” series, sharing with our readers beautiful cover art, quirky titles and lyrics, and musical documentation of America’s cultural history. Because of copyright law, most of the digitized sheet music selections you will find …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
Last Sunday, June 17, marked the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, where on a hilltop just outside of Boston over 1000 members of the rebel army put up a valiant fight against two infantry charges by the highly organized (and significantly larger) British forces. Though the Americans were defeated by the third …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Music Cataloger Laura Yust. One hundred years ago, on April 14, 1912, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg and sank within just a few hours. Over 3,000 passengers and crew members were on board, and just over half of them died. It was one of the worst …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Archivist Janet McKinney. Before becoming an archivist I had the privilege of working as a Junior Fellow contributing records to It’s Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen, our database of excerpts from operas, musicals, revues, and films. As part of the Junior Fellow program, we were able …
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Posted by: Cait Miller
The past couple of years we’ve taken time out on Valentine’s Day to highlight love songs and love letters from the Music Division’s collections; however, Valentine’s Day is not exactly everyone’s favorite day of the year. I scoured our digitized sheet music for a selection that might speak to those who are not in love, the …
Posted in: Holidays, Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Head of Acquisitions & Processing Denise Gallo. Today marks the 192nd birthday of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Born into an Ohio family steeped in law and politics, Sherman was at various points in his life a banker, lawyer, and president of a streetcar company. He is remembered above …
Posted in: Birthdays, Guest bloggers, Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
I’m sure there are plenty of In the Muse readers who share my love for the hit series Downton Abbey airing on PBS (am I right?). Every week I tune in to the addictive British period drama and a couple of weeks ago I swooned during that wonderful closing scene where Lady Mary sings “If …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
2012 is almost upon us! The Music Division certainly had an exciting year with many accomplishments from digital projects such as the launch of the Music Treasures Consortium last February, to two successfully curated exhibits (Coast to Coast: The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 and I Love Lucy: An American Legend), to the continued production of …
Posted in: Holidays, Sheet Music of the Week