Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress
|| Upcoming Concerts & Events ||
- July 14 at noon - Amuma Says No
Basque music form Idaho - August 25 at noon - Steve Meisner & Friends Milwaukee-Slovenian Style Polka from Wisconsin
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|| Samuel Barber and the Library ||
Selected manuscripts, audio recordings, and articles made available to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this American composer's birth.
|| Coptic Chant & Hymnody ||
Music transcriptions, audio, video, photos, maps, books, & essays from the the Ragheb Moftah Collection. Learn more about current scholarship and what is happening in the Coptic community today.
|| Music and the Brain ||
Lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music.
|| Rare Musical Instruments ||
Musical Instruments at the Library of Congress includes recordings, articles, and photos of the Library's collection of string, wind and folk instruments.
|| Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes ||
An online exhibition highlighting one of the most influential dance companies of the twentieth century; objects primarily from the Library's Bronislava Nijinska collection.
|| Performing Arts Resource Guide ||
Search and browse descriptions of more than 235 music, theater and dance resources by subject, title, or name. Go to the resource guide »
- Browse by Subject
- Browse by Name (person or group)
- Browse by Title of Resource
Note: to search for digital items, use the search box on the left side of this page.
|| Special Presentations ||
- African-American Band Music
- Amazing Grace
- American Choral Music
- Baseball Sheet Music
- Civil War Sheet Music
- Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant
- Dolly Parton & Country Music
- Elliott Carter Manuscripts
- Ernest Bloch and the Library
- Felix Mendelssohn
- 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
- Musical Instruments at the Library
- Patriotic Melodies
- Presidential Campaign Songs
- 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: 06/28/2010