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
- Aaron Copland Collection
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923
- Albert Schatz Collection
- Amazing Grace
- America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets | Resources for teachers
- American Choral Music
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Samuel Barber
- Baseball Sheet Music | teaching Resources
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Leonard Bernstein Collection
- Ernest Bloch Collection
- Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals
- California Folk Music Project | Teaching resources
- Cambini Quintets
- Elliott Carter 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
- Franz Liszt at the Library of Congress
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
- Library of Congress Concerts
- The March King: John Philip Sousa
- Martorell Music Manuscripts
- Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress
- 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
- 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
- Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
- Songs of America
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Roman Totenberg Papers
- 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
- 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
- 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 posts related to music
- In the Muse posts
- Library of Congress Blog posts related to music
- Return of a Sámi Drum In Custodia Legis February 2, 2022