Tasty Summer Treats from the Stacks
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
A bite of songs about summertime food from Music Division Archivist Anita M. Weber.
Posted in: Sheet Music
Category: Sheet Music
Ethel Smyth and “The March of the Women”
Posted by: Cait Miller
British composer Ethel Smyth's 1911 song "The March of the Women," dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst and the Women's Social and Political Union, became a suffrage anthem in the United Kingdom and abroad. Learn more about Smyth's involvement with the WSPU and access sheet music from the Library of Congress digital collection "Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music."
Posted in: Sheet Music, Women in Music
By the People: Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Library of Congress By the People project launched its first campaign to feature sheet music in February 2022. "Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music" features approximately 200 titles created before 1923 either for, about, or against the suffrage movement. Once the campaign is transcribed and approved, researchers will be able to keyword search across all text included in the sheet music, including lyrics.
Posted in: Sheet Music, Women in Music
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Posted by: Cait Miller
James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is one of the most significant hymns in American history. Read more about the genesis of the song and download sheet music published in 1900 and 1921.
Posted in: African American History, Composers, Sheet Music
New Digital Collections from the Music Division
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division has published three new digital collections, including the Martorell Collection, music manuscripts from the A.P. Schmidt Collection, and Sheet Music of the Musical Theater.
Posted in: Musical Theater, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Women in Music
“A Grand Series of Musical Compositions”: The Curious Case of Nicola Sampieri
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
An obscure composer from the late 18th and early 19th century, Nicola Sampieri self-published most of his music with programmatic titles, intricate engravings, and specific instructions for performance that included both sound effects and visual displays.
Posted in: Composers, Film Music, Sheet Music
By the Sea
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
Let’s Get Away From It All: Natural Wonders
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
Gilbert & Sullivan’s American Ally
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