Primary Source Spotlight: Music
PSN curated primary source sets
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- Marian Anderson
- California Folk Music Project
- George M. Cohan
- Aaron Copland
- Duke Ellington
- James Reese Europe
- Ella Fitzgerald
- George Gershwin & Gullah Culture
- Dizzy Gillespie
- W.C. Handy & the Blues
- Victor Herbert
- Billie Holiday
- Jazz Music
- Julia Ward Howe
- Mahalia Jackson
- Louis Jordan
- Jenny Lind
- Metropolitan Opera House
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Leontyne Price
- Radio City Music Hall
- Fiddler Henry Reed
- Frank Sinatra
- John Philip Sousa
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Stravinsky & Balanchine
- Sophie Tucker
Library Collections
- 10th-16th Century Liturgical Chants
- Aaron Copland Collection
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923
- Albert Schatz Collection
- Amazing Grace
- America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
- American Choral Music
- Andre Kostelanetz Collection
- A.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Samuel Barber
- Baseball Sheet Music
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Leonard Bernstein Collection
- Ernest Bloch Collection
- Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals
- Books About Music Before 1800
- Gaetano Brunetti Manuscript Scores
- California Folk Music Project
- Cambini Quintets
- The Carnegie Hall Collection of Conversations with Composers
- Elliott Carter Collection
- Civil War Sheet Music Collection
- Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant and Hymnody
- Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
- Irving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962
- Florida Folklife songs from the WPA Collections
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
- Great Conversations in Music
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
- Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922
- The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection: song recordings | sheet music
- Early American Sheet Music
- Franz Liszt at the Library of Congress
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
- Library of Congress Concerts
- Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio
- The March King: John Philip Sousa
- Martorell Music Manuscripts
- Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress
- Dayton C. Miller Collection
- The Moldenhauer Archives
- The Gerry Mulligan Collection
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820 – 1860 | Teaching resources
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870-1885 | Teaching resources
- Music Treasures Consortium
- Musical Instruments at the Library of Congress
- Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
- Omaha Indian Music
- Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music
- Patriotic Melodies
- Pre-1700 Musical Treasures
- Ragtime
- Roger Reynolds Collection
- Gisella Selden-Goth Collection
- Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
- Silent Film Scores and Arrangements
- Songs of America
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Roman Totenberg Papers
- Transit of Venus March
- We’ll Sing To Abe Our Song: Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation and the Civil War
- Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
Online Exhibitions
- ASCAP: 100 Years and Beyond
- As the Old Sing, So the Young Twitter
- Baseball’s Greatest Hits: The Music of Our National Game
- Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- Jazz Singers
- Molto Animato!: Music & Animation
- The Musical Worlds of Victor Herbert
- A Night at the Opera
- #Opera Before Instagram: Portraits, 1890-1955
- Voices, Votes, Victory: Presidential Campaign Songs
- West Side Story
Featured Images
Articles and blog posts
- “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” anthem for African Americans
- “Lift Every Voice and Sing” In the Muse February 8, 2022
- Folklife Today blog posts related to music
- In the Muse posts
- Now See Hear! blog posts: jazz | jukebox
- Timeless Stories from the Library blog posts related to music
- Return of a Sámi Drum In Custodia Legis February 2, 2022
Library research guides
- American Women: Resources from the Performing Arts Collections
- American Women: Resources from the Recorded Sound Collections
- Amy Beach
- Anthologies of Musical Works from the 15th-17th Centuries
- Anthony Philip Heinrich
- Anton Webern
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Culture and Traditions
- Baseball Music and Songs
- Beethoven
- Black Composers
- Bluegrass Music
- Christmas Carols: Topics in Chronicling America
- Clara Schumann
- Classical Flute Repertoire, Performers, and Instruments
- Early African-American Music: A Bibliography
- Early American Sacred Music
- Early Jazz Music (Backlash and Opposition): Topics in Chronicling America
- Eleanor Everest Freer
- Film Music
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Gena Branscombe
- George Antheil
- Gullah/Geechee Collections
- Harry Thacker Burleigh
- Igor Stravinsky
- James Reese Europe: Topics in Chronicling America
- Jazz Research
- Jazz Stock Arrangements
- Johannes Brahms
- John Philip Sousa: Topics in Chronicling America
- Kendrick Lamar
- Latin American Composers
- Leonard Bernstein
- LGBTQ+ Performing Arts Resources
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour
- Music and Books on Music from the Russian Imperial Collection in the Library of Congress
- Music for Silent Film
- Music in the United States
- Music Materials in Braille, Large Print and Audio
- Music Notation: Preferred Preservation Formats for Digital Scores
- Music, Theater, Dance: An Illustrated Guide
- Musicals of Stage and Screen
- Opera and Media Technology
- Popular Sheet Music for Voice and Piano
- Primary Sources for Latin American Composers
- Ragtime: Topics in Chronicling America
- Recorded Sound Research
- Resources for Orchestra Conductors
- Seeger Family
- Shape-Note Singing
- Sissieretta Jones: Topics in Chronicling America
- Stephen Collins Foster
- Television Music
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Transcripts of Dramatic Musical Works in Full Score
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Woody Guthrie