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    Amazing Grace This collection highlights the history of the hymn “Amazing Grace” from the earliest printing of the song to selected performances of it on published and field recordings. These items have been collected from several divisions in the Library of Congress, including the Music Division, the American Folklife Center, the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, and the Rare Books Division. Also available here…
    • Date: 1930

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    Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival…
    • Contributor: Reed, Watha - Glenroy, William B. - Reed, Gene - Ricci, Glenn - American Folklife Center - Jabbour, Alan - Reed, Henry
    • Date: 2000

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    The Maine music box Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Searchable database of digitized images of 5 collections of manuscript scores and sheet music. Over 22,000 titles are accessible. Selected scores will have an associated computer generated sound file. Other scores have associated Scorch files, allowing the user to listen while following a cursor through the music; the viewer may also manipulate key and instrumentation.
    • Contributor: Bangor Public Library - Bagaduce Music Lending Library - Raymond H. Fogler Library
    • Date: 2003
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    Chukhyang Yi Saeng-gang minsogak taegŭm kyobon : chungyo muhyŏng munhwajae che 45-ho taegŭm sanjo yenŭng poyuja
    竹香 이생강 민속악 대금 교본 : 중요 무형 문화재 제 45호 대금 산조 예능 보유자 / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     "Yi Saeng-gang minsok akpo moŭmjip 2"--Spine. Staff notation and letter notataion. "이 생강 민속 악보 모음집 2"--Spine.
    • Contributor: Yi, Saeng-Gang
    • Date: 2003
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    Band Music from the Civil War Era On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress re-created a typical concert of brass band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. That concert has become the starting-point for Band Music from the Civil War Era, an online collection that brings together musical scores, recordings, photographs, and essays documenting an important but insufficiently explored part of the American musical past.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2000

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    Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant and Hymnody With its roots in Ancient Egyptian music, Coptic Christian chant is one of the oldest liturgical genres still performed today. Drawing on the Ragheb Moftah Collection, this presentation explores some of the earliest music transcriptions by explorers, missionaries, and scholars in Egypt, highlighting Moftah's efforts to notate, record, and preserve all Coptic Orthodox hymns. Learn more about current scholarship and what is happening in…
    • Contributor: Tóth, Margit - Moftah, Ragheb - Newlandsmith, Ernest - Wilson, Marian Robertson
    • Date: 1926

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    Music for the nation American sheet music Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Derived from the collection of the Music Division at the Library of Congress, presents sheet music that was published in the United States and registered for copyright during the nineteenth century. Includes popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. Features a bibliographic description for each item…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2002
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    Duet : per a flauta i guitarra : [1981]
    Duet : Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Composer's preface, performance and biographical notes in Catalan, Spanish and English. Staff notation.
    • Contributor: Gascón, Montserrat - Homs, Joaquim - Coll, Xavier
    • Date: 2003
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    Ragheb Moftah collection of Coptic Orthodox liturgical chants and hymns, 1926-2018 The collection consists of transcriptions of Coptic chant music by Ernest Newlandsmith and Margit Toth. Both contain transcriptions of the Liturgy of St. Basil. Basil. Marian Robertson Wilson created a guide to Moftah's audio tapes in 1996, which consists of transcriptions, transliterations and translations into English of the texts sung on the tapes. Wilson also devised a new order for the pieces on the…
    • Contributor: Tóth, Margit - Moftah, Ragheb - Newlandsmith, Ernest - Wilson, Marian Robertson
    • Date: 1926
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    Bløf boek Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Music and words by members of the group Bløf (Paskal Jakobsen, Peter Slager, Bas Kennis, Chris Götte) 24 numbers from the CDs Naakt onder de hemel, Helder, Boven, Watermakers. Transcriptions by Tom Bakker.
    • Contributor: Bløf (Musical Group) - Schipper, Stefan
    • Date: 2002
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    The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."
    • Date: 1581

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    Ballet mécanique Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available New ed. of the composer's original version for 2 pianos, percussion (3 xylophones, electric bells, 3 propellers, tamtam, 4 drums, and siren), and 16 player pianos; originally performed by 4 pianos 8 hands and player piano. Edited from the holograph in the Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Duration: ca. 30:00. Includes historical notes by Rex Lawson, editorial notes by…
    • Contributor: Antheil, George - McGuire, George A. - Lehrman, Paul D.
    • Date: 2003
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    Great Conversations in Music The programs for "Great Conversations in Music" were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. The four-part series was commissioned by the Library of Congress in 2001 and produced and directed by Peter Rosen of Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. Filmed between December 2001 and March 2003 at the Library of Congress and the American…
    • Date: 2001

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