Happy Fourth of July!
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Let's explore digital collections, primary sources, and previous years' blog content all about Independence Day!
Posted in: Composers, Holidays, Sheet Music
Category: Sheet Music
Addie Joss: Baseball’s ‘great twirler’ remembered in song
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
Disney at the Library: A Cinderella Story
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
Happy 200th Birthday to Julia Ward Howe!
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
May 27, 2019 is the 200th birthday of suffragist, abolitionist, and writer Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910). She was also a vocalist, composer, and lyricist. The Music Division holds many treasures for you to discover Julia Ward Howe's musical side.
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Sheet Music, Sound recordings, Women in Music
80 Years Later: Music from the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair, discover primary sources in the Music Division that played starring roles in it all.
Posted in: Composers, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Polarizing Political Issues: The Anti-Suffrage Rose
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Cataloging Specialist Laura Yust. Laura’s post marks the final blog post in our Women’s History Month series that highlights selections from the Music Division’s digital collection Woman’s Suffrage in Sheet Music. The suffragists of the early 20th century faced organized opposition from the anti-suffragists, both men …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Women in Music
Suffrage Music on Parade: Part Two
Posted by: Cait Miller
As promised, every Wednesday this month In the Muse is featuring a blog post that highlights stories and names that lie within the Music Division’s recently-launched digital collection, Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music. Last week, I located a newspaper article that contextualized Fanny Connable Lancaster and Florence Livingston Lent’s “Suffrage Marching Song” and described its …
Posted in: Composers, Digital Collections, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Women in Music
Baseball’s Greatest Hits: Over 1000 Songs about Our National Game
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
The following is a guest post by Senior Music Specialist (and Red Sox fan) Susan Clermont: If you were asked to name a popular song about baseball, most likely you’d begin singing the chorus to the 1908 hit Take Me Out to the Ball Game, the third most recognized tune in the United States. What …
Posted in: Baseball, Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music
Suffrage Music on Parade
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division’s latest digital collection, Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music, includes over 200 pieces of music related to women’s emerging voices in the 19th century and more directly to the women’s suffrage movement. The collection provides multiple lenses through which a researcher can process the political struggle of the time, including music specifically written …
Posted in: Digital Collections, Sheet Music, Women in Music