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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
Posted by: Library of Congress
On March 1, 2022, In the Muse published a blog post announcing a finding aid to the Music Division’s Florence B. Price Music Manuscripts. Although we are proud to enhance discoverability of the Library’s Florence Price manuscripts with the finding aid, the blog post contained some inaccurate information and lacked appropriate citations. After considering the concerns raised with the post, the …
Posted in: African American History, Composers, Women in Dance, Women in 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
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Back in October 2021, my dear colleagues in the Music Division Concert Office asked me to film a short curator talk about our world famous Nicolò Paganini holdings. As I learned more about Maia Bang Hohn, whose widower Charles sold the materials to the Library, I realized that she is more than just a collector in a footnote. In this blog post, I share some of my findings that couldn’t make it into my brief video as well as reiterate some key ones that did.
Posted in: Curators, Musicians, Special Collections, Webcasts, Women in Music
Posted by: Claudia Morales
The following is a blog post from first author Kaleena Black and co-author Claudia Morales. It was published on NAFME “Music Educators Journal”– September 2021 issue Kaleena Black is an Educational Resources Specialist at the Library of Congress. She can be reached at [email protected]. Claudia Morales is a Concert Producer at the Library of Congress. She …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Interviews, Jazz, Musical Instruments, Women in Music
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
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post from Jessica Grimmer, Ph.D., an MLIS student at the University of Maryland completing her field study at the Library of Congress as a member of a team processing the Jessye Norman Papers. In her 2014 memoir, Stand Up Straight and Sing, American opera star Jessye Norman recounts a chance …
Posted in: African American History, Jazz, Sacred music, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Take a look at the lives and works of some of the women composers from the Warner/Chappell Collection with Archives Processing Technician Melissa Capozio Jones.
Posted in: Composers, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Music Division staff lead a virtual tour through selections of colorful graphic aspects of performing arts documentation.
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Musical Theater, Staff, Women in Dance, Women in Music, Women in Theater