Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress
|| Events, Concerts & Webcasts ||
Bajich Brothers -- Tamburitza Music
Wed., September 17, 2008 at noon
Preview 2008-09 LC Concerts
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2008 Folklife Concert Series
Webcast: Ruth Crawford Seeger: Biography as Music History (Judith Tick, speaker)
|| Featured Presentation ||
American Choral Music, 1870-1923, a collaboration with the American Choral Directors Association, features choral music scores, articles and biographies.
|| Featured Exhibition ||
West Side Story: Birth of a Classic highlights music and memorabilia from the Library's Leonard Bernstein collection on the 50th anniversary of this extraordinary work.
|| Just Added ||
Mozart's String Quintet in C Major, K. [manuscript score]
|| Performing Arts Resource Guide ||
Search and browse descriptions of more than 235 music, theater and dance resources by subject, title, or name.
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|| Special Presentations ||
- African-American Band Music
- Amazing Grace
- American Choral Music
- Baseball Sheet Music
- Civil War Sheet Music
- Dolly Parton & Country Music
- Gerry Mulligan Collection
- Great Conversations in Music
- Guarneri "Twin" Violins
- Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922
- Katherine Dunham Collection
- Library of Congress Publications
- Library of Congress Concerts
- Life in 19th-Century Ohio
- The March King: John Philip Sousa
- Patriotic Melodies
- Ragtime
- Roger Reynolds Collection
- Song of America
- Transit of Venus March
|| Databases & Online Catalogs ||
- Chasanoff/Elozua
"Amazing Grace" Collection
search a database of recordings - Jazz
on the Screen
search a filmography created by David Meeker - Traditional
Music & Spoken Word
search catalog from the American Folklife Center
Last Updated: 09/11/2008