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Posted by: David Plylar
Every so often we read about the discovery of some long-lost manuscript in the crypts of an archive, or the unearthing of a heretofore missing missive found locked in a trunk in somebody’s attic. At the Library of Congress we encounter these proclamations more frequently than you might think, usually in the world of special …
Posted in: Composers, Musicians, New Acquisitions, Newly Cataloged, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is by retired cataloger Sharon McKinley. The sinking of the Lusitania was one of many rallying events of WWI. Interestingly, the ship was sunk two years before the United Sates entered the war: on May 7, 1915. She was a civilian ship of the Cunard line, but was carrying some war materiel along …
Posted in: Sheet Music, Special Collections, World War I
Posted by: Cait Miller
On May 9, 1567, one of music history’s most revered composers was born – Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi. To look at the whole of Monteverdi’s exquisite compositional output is to understand the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque era in music. Some of the most exciting early printings in our collections include early editions …
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following post originally appeared on the Copyright: Creativity at Work Blog and was written by George Thuronyi of the U.S. Copyright Office. As a teenager during the 1970s, I put on my bell-bottom pants and shiny shirt to groove to the latest disco hits. I was not alone. Disco culture was highly popular and …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Copyright Deposits, Curators, Guest bloggers, Interviews, Musicians, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff