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Music

These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings.

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Music

  • A Century of Creativity: The McDowell Colony
  • African American Band Music and Recordings
  • Amazing Grace
  • American Choral Music, 1870-1923
  • Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
  • Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
  • Great Conversations in Music
  • Lyrical Legacy: 400 Years of American Song and Poetry
  • Patriotic Melodies
  • Song of America (American Art Song)
  • The Moldenhauer Archives
  • West Side Story: Birth of a Classic

Folk Music

  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties
  • Captain Pearl Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
  • Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collection, 1937-1942
  • Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932
  • Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
  • Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio
  • Omaha Indian Music
  • Southern Mosaic the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Individual Composers and Writers

  • Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990
  • Gerry Mulligan Collection
  • Roger Reynolds Collection
  • The Irving Fine Collection
  • The Leonard Bernstein Collection c.1920-1989
  • Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence, 1940-1950

Jazz and Blues

  • Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals 1938-1943
  • Ragtime
  • William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

Marches and Military Music

  • Band Music in the Civil War Era
  • Civil War Sheet Music
  • The March King: John Philip Sousa
  • Transit of Venus March

Sheet Music

  • African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
  • America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
  • Historic American Sheet Music 2850-1920
  • Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922
  • Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820 - 1860 and 1870 - 1885
  • We'll Sing To Abe Our Song: Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation and the Civil War
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