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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division By the People transcription campaign title : Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To

About this Item

Title

  • Transcription dataset from the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To for 15,809 images from the Leonard Bernstein Collection digital collection. It contains volunteer-created and -reviewed text, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia. The Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To campaign was fully transcribed and reviewed between December 12, 2023 and August 9, 2024.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/bernstein/). The campaign consisted of selections of digitized manuscript content from the Leonard Bernstein Collection digital collection (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/collmus.mu000003), of original manuscripts found in the Leonard Bernstein Collection and other related collections.. Composer, conductor, teacher, and social activist, Leonard Bernstein composed the music for symphonies, ballets, chamber works, operas, a film score, a Mass, and several Broadway musicals, notably Candide and West Side Story and conducted dozens of orchestras internationally, including the New York Philharmonic over 40 seasons, with 11 years as its music director. Digitized manuscripts transcribed include a significant selection of correspondence both to and from Bernstein, musical sketches for several of his major works, and writings from his student papers to the scripts for his Young People's Concerts, Thursday Evening Previews, Omnibus, and Ford Presents. See the Leonard Bernstein Collection digital collection (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/collmus.mu000003) for all available online items for this collection, the finding aid for the complete Leaonard Bernstein Collection (https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections/ead3pdf/music/1998/mu998001.pdf), and other contextual information and bibliographic resources.
  • This dataset includes: 2023514966.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file and bernstein_2025-02-03.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To campaign.
  • Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors.

Names

  • Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2025.

Headings

  • -  Bernstein, Leonard,--1918-1990--Correspondence
  • -  Bernstein, Leonard,--1918-1990--Manuscripts
  • -  Conductors (Music)--United States--Correspondence
  • -  Composers--United States--Correspondence
  • -  Musicians--United States--Correspondence

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2025-02-03."--README file.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML31 .B49

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023514966

Rights Advisory

  • Some of the contents of this dataset may be subject to copyright protection. Please consult the Leonard Bernstein Collection at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/collmus.mu000003 for more information on rights and access restriction.

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Bernstein, Leonard. Transcription dataset from the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514966/.

APA citation style:

Bernstein, L. (2025) Transcription dataset from the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514966/.

MLA citation style:

Bernstein, Leonard. Transcription dataset from the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514966/>.