http://www1.universia.net/catalogaxxi/C10055PPCLII1/S126777/P12567NN1/INDEX.HTMLMÚSICA EN MUSEOS Y EXPOSICIONEShttp://www1.universia.net/catalogaxxi/img/cabecera/universia1.gif http://www1.universia.net/CatalogaXXI «This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook.» ]]> «For most of the nineteenth century, before the advent of phonograph and radio technologies, Americans learned the latest songs from printed song sheets. Not to be confused with sheet music, song sheets are single printed sheets, usually six by eight inches, with lyrics but no music.» ]]> «The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another.» ]]> Musées imaginaries.
«C’est au pays de Gaillac, dans le Tarn, que la souche familiale se fixe grâce à Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, modeste tisserand, fabricant de serge, étoffe en usage dans la région. Dans le village, une rue Cavaillé-Coll en témoigne. Pourtant, le nom illustre qui flatte cette dynastie est bien le fruit de l’association de deux noms Cavaillé et Coll dont l’alliance est bien attestée par le mariage de l’un des petits-fils du fondateur, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, le 12 février 1767, (fils de Gabriel, déclaré " Sarger " ou tisserand) avec Maria-Francesca Coll, demoiselle native de Barcelone, fille d’un tisserand fabricant de voiles pour les bateaux. Le frère de Gabriel, Joseph, jacobin à Toulouse, exerce le métier de facteur d’orgues et l’enseigne à son neveu, Jean-Pierre, qui devient par la suite le grand organier du Midi de la France et de la Catalogne.»]]> «Band Music from the Civil War Era makes available examples of a brilliant style of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth century. Bands of this kind served in the armies of both the North and the South during the Civil War.» ]]> The Digital Journalist.
«These photographs are my attempt to document the living legacy of this rich cultural tradition. The Blues is our country's most important musical art form for it has shaped every musical form developed in it's wake, including gospel, jazz, rock and roll, bluegrass and modern country. It's echoes still resound in the sweaty juke joints and dusty cotton fields along Highway 61.» ]]> «The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.» ]]>«... es el primer centro de extensión de la cultura fundado fuera del campus universitario. En sus salones, foros y galerías se han dado cita los representantes de la vanguardia cultural del país.
Ofrece al visitante una gran variedad de manifestaciones artísticas de alta calidad. La danza, el teatro, la música, el cine y las artes plásticas se disfrutan como espectáculo y se llevan a la práctica docente en sus cursos y talleres. A las actividades que se realizan al aire libre, ya emblemáticas de este espacio universitario, como son el ajedrez y la pintura, se suman bailes de salón, filatelia, rincón de lectura, así como jardinería y hortaliza urbana, entre otras. Éstas últimas forman parte de proyectos de divulgación científica y cuidado y protección del medio ambiente, tan necesarios en la actualidad.»]]> «This site explores the Celtic culture on which the survival of the traditional Cape Breton music depends. There is information on Judique, Cape Breton which several of our popular musicians consider home. The site also contains biographies and sound samples from some of our popular musicians and resource information for students.»]]> «This site was developed by the National Library of Canada which is the official repository of the archives of the composer Claude Champagne.» ]]> «El catálogo de la Colección de instrumentos musicales del Banco de la República, ha sido elaborado con base en el sistema de clasificación propuesto por Curt Sachs y Erich M. von Hornbostel. Este sistema tiene la ventaja de constituir un sistema abierto que facilita la inclusión de nuevas categories necesarias al clasificar los instrumentos de la música tradicional colombiana. »]]> «Since proper understanding of musical instruments can hardly be attained only by means of names and illustrative descriptions, photographs accompany every instrument listed in this catalogue. In these photographs the instruments have been placed, as far as has been practical, in a position as close to that used in actual performance, so that the view given is that perceived by a listener.»]]> Many of the instruments in the collection have been played by famous musicians and composers. It represents the most important collection of Renaissance instruments in the world.
The holdings were originally the property of the Habsburgs and have been constantly expanded through purchases, gifts and loans.»]]> «...specialises in stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments, many of which are on display in the earliest surviving purpose-built musical museum in the world...»]]> «Established in 1900, when Morris Steinert presented to Yale his collection consisting chiefly of keyboard instruments, the Collection grew slowly for over half a century largely through donations from alumni.»
«The acquisition of the Belle Skinner Collection (1960) and the Emil Herrmann Collection (1962) established the position of the Yale Collection as one of the world's most important repositories of musical instruments, and confirmed its character as a "collection of superlatives," as an enthusiastic admirer of the Skinner collection once had put it.»
«Since 1970 the Collection has nearly trebled in size, today comprising nearly one thousand instruments, the majority documenting the history of Western art music.»]]> «The following collections are considered museum objects and comprise a unique museum element within the library community at large. Selected objects from these collections, which can safely sustain playing conditions, have been treated and used in performance for early music and other scholarly events which seemed worth the risks that might apply to such usage. In general, these collections are used mostly by visiting researchers and craftsmen for various publication and instrument replication projects.»]]> «Mucho ha evolucionado la música de Cristóbal Halffter desde que en el año 1951 proclamara y diera nombre —quizá sin querer— a una de las generaciones de compositores más fructífera de la posguerra española...»
«Pocos compositores españoles de hoy tienen la capacidad de comunicación de Halffter, y aún menos la personalidad que envuelve a toda su obra.»]]> «Comprising nearly 1,700 flutes and other instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute, the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection draws its holdings from all over the world and represents the work of at least 460 European and American instrument makers.» ]]> «...comprised of nearly 1,650 flutes and other instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. The Miller Collection contains Western and non-Western examples from all over the world, and at least 460 European and American instrument makes are represented. This Preview of the online collection features catalog entries and images for 102 of the 1,650 instruments in the collection.»]]> «Just fa pocs anys vam celebrar el centenari del naixement del cinema. Les celebracions van ser multitudinàries i arreu, perquè el cinema ha estat i és un art majoritàriament adreçat al públic més ampli. Controvertit i aplaudit, de entreteniment o reflexiu, el gènere cinematogràfic ha acompanyat milions de persones durant els darrers cent anys, els ha commogut, els ha fet riure; ha servit per explicar els canvis que el món experimentava i s’ha atrevit a jutjar-los.»]]> «This collection profile describes electronic and electrical musical instruments in the Museum's collection. Electrical devices have been used to build musical instruments since the 1890s when electricity was first widely available for residential use. Many of the instruments in the collection are the work of Hugh Le Caine, Canadian physicist, inventor, composer and pioneer in the design of electronic instruments.» ]]> «Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 108 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Berliner (1851-1929), an immigrant and a largely self-educated man, was responsible for the development of the microphone and the flat recording disc and gramophone player. Although the focus of this online collection is on the gramophone and its recordings, it includes much evidence of Berliner's other interests, such as information on his businesses, his crusades for the pasteurization of milk and other public-health issues, his philanthropy, his musical composition, and even his poetry. Spanning the years 1870 to 1956, the collection comprises correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, catalogs, clippings, experiment notes, and rare sound recordings.]]> «Rare wax cylinder recordings of music, songs and speech from around the world, captured on the first portable recording machines between 1898 and 1915.» ]]> «Exploring and celebrating musical diversity is what EMP is all about. Whether your preference is blues, jazz, hip-hop, funk, punk, country or rock ‘n’ roll, you’ll find something here that strikes a chord. Explore musical milestones and movements, and meet the music makers — on stage and behind the scenes — who all share one sonic language.»
EMP Digital Collection.

«EMP Digital Collection invites you to browse through hundreds of artifacts from the Experience Music Project collection, including rare instruments, sound recordings, costumes, photographs, posters and song lyrics.»]]> «An ongoing examination of interactions between sound and the visual arts.»]]> «Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of 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 of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, and influence; a list of related publications; and a glossary of musical terms.» ]]> «...houses one of the most diverse collections of musical instruments in the United States, containing over 1,400 American, European and ethnic instruments dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.»]]> «La sede de la Fundación está en Urueña (Valladolid, España), en un edificio del siglo XVIII propiedad de la Diputación de Valladolid, y en ella se albergan diversas colecciones, cedidas para su visita o consulta por Joaquín Díaz, así como numerosos archivos orales, escritos y gráficos que pueden ser consultados a través de esta página.»]]> «Preserved and studied in its depository departments are exceptionally valuable rarities such as written and printed music, musical instruments of various periods and peoples, memorial articles, and works of painting, sculpture and decorative and applied art.
No other country of the world has a musical museum of a similar scope, and it is not accidental that the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture is the central one among dozens of Russian musical museums.» ]]> «The Gemeentemuseum's modern art collection provides a fascinating overview of developments in painting and sculpture over the last two centuries.»
«Made for use but too precious to touch. That is the fate of objects in the applied arts department. But visitors can still feast their eyes on the richly, decorated objects.»
«An extensive collection of instruments, illustrative visual materials and a splendid music library, which together document the history of (mainly European) music.»]]> «Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In 1940, Juan Bautista Rael of Stanford University, a native of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, used disc recording equipment supplied by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) to document alabados (hymns), folk drama, wedding songs, and dance tunes. The recordings included in the Archive of Folk Culture collection were made in Alamosa, Manassa, and Antonito, Colorado, and in Cerro and Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico.» ]]> «Pénétrez la mémoire du temps et remontez aux origines d'une musique qui se joue autant avec les pieds qu'avec les mains. Dans ce site passionnant, l'histoire de la musique traditionnelle se lit comme un roman à travers huit chapitres bien documentés et abondamment illustrés. En prime, les archives complètes du Festival Mémoire et Racines!» ]]> «The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music. This selection presents a significant perspective on American history and culture through a variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil War songs and music.» ]]>Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada.
«On this site you will find samplings from the 600-page Historical Anthology of Canadian Music (HACM) volume now being developed by the Canadian Musical Heritage Society (CMHS).» ]]> «...podrá acercarse a la vida de Joaquín Rodrigo de manera diversa: por años y de modo escueto en la cronología, de un modo completo en la biografía, con las imágenes en fotos y con las palabras que él dijo u otros dijeron sobre él.
Además hay una lista de los premios y distinciones que recibió, y una bibliografía completa.» ]]> «This Directory is jointly provided by CIMCIM and the American Musical Instrument Society. These organisations have made this information available as a service to their members and others in good faith, but are not liable for the consequences of any inaccuracies or out-of date information.»]]> «En el bienio 2000-2001 se celebraron dos acontecimientos culturales de primer orden en el terreno de la música española: El lanzamiento de la grabación de la ópera Merlin de Isaac Albéniz y la publicación, con la ayuda de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, del Catálogo descriptivo sistemático de las obras musicales de Isaac Albéniz, cuyos antecedentes y peculiaridades descubrirán aquí.
En estas páginas, homenaje al músico español, el visitante encontrará información sobre estos dos acontecimientos, pero también sobre los aspectos más controvertidos de la biografía y el estado de las investigaciones en torno a la figura de Isaac Albéniz, a través de los escritos de acreditados especialistas en el mundo de la crítica y la interpretación de la obra albeniciana.»]]> Musées imaginaries.]]> «Le Festival International de Lanaudière a placé Joliette sur la carte musical du monde. Mais cet événement d'envergure est le fruit d'une lente élaboration, il a exigé plus de cent ans de préparation. Cet ouvrage décrit les étapes de cette merveilleuse aventure. Plusieurs événements culturels expliquent comment, grâce à des leaders exeptionnels, une tradition musicale s'est tissée au cours des années, comment la musique en est venue à faire partie intégrante de l'histoire de Joliette.»]]> «Paintings, drawings, photographs, and related memorabilia combine to create a vivid portrait of the jazz giant who rose from poverty to prominence as one of the most important musicians of his time.»]]> Musées imaginaries.
«Charpentier laisse une œuvre monumentale dans laquelle il manifeste une égale maîtrise dans l'art de la composition. En effet, il sait être grave et profond dans sa musique religieuse, émouvant ou léger dans sa musique de scène. Tout aussi à son aise dans les petites que dans les grandes formes, il excelle dans la disposition en double chœur, voire en triple ou en quadruple chœur et son écriture contrapuntique est admirable.»]]> Eventually I started upgrading and filling in the gaps, focusing on acquiring an example of all the string groups -- guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, zithers, harps, lutes, Dobros, exotics, ad infinitum. I consider my specialty the harp-guitar family and the many "hybrid" instruments (combinations, logical or otherwise, of two different instruments) -- the "just plain unusual.»]]> «Institution de type ethnographique, elle se doit d'appuyer le Musée National dans sa gestion du patrimoine culturel , en particulier en matière de conservation et de valorisation du patrimoine musical burkinabè.
Le musée de la musique a aussi vocation pédagogique: sensibiliser les jeunes générations et contribuer à ce qu'elles renouent avec un patrimoine culturel, héritage musical légué par les anciens, source de leur identité nationale.»]]> «Le MIM présente une collection d’instruments de musique de renommée internationale, ainsi qu’une large gamme d’activités en rapport avec cette collection à un public qu’il veut le plus large et le plus diversifié possible en Belgique et à l’étranger. Il montre un panorama étendu de la musique ancienne, moderne, populaire et traditionnelle.» ]]> «L'histoire des collections du Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel (MEN) remonte au XVIIIe siècle, les premières pièces étant issues du Cabinet d'histoire naturelle du général Charles Daniel de Meuron donné à la Ville en 1795.»
«Aujourd'hui, le MEN abrite quelque 30 000 objets dont plus de la moitié est représentée par les collections africaines: Afrique orientale et du Sud; Angola des années 30; Sahara et Sahel (Touaregs et Maures); Gabon. Il conserve aussi des fonds asiatique, esquimau et océanien, des instruments de musique extra-européens et des pièces d'Egypte ancienne.»]]>«Es depositario de una valiosa colección conformada por más de 730 instrumentos musicales, libros y manuscritos, conformada principalmente por la donación que realizaran los familiares del Dr. Emilio Azzarini, según un legado que el prestigioso profesional realizara antes de su muerte en 1963.» ]]> «El Museu de la Música té entre els seus objectius primers la conservació, la documentació i la difusió del patrimoni musical, a la vegada que la promoció de la recerca musicològica i interpretativa, i el foment de l`ús de les seves col·leccions com a recurs per a l`ensenyament musical.
Ubicat al palau modernista del baró de Quadras, del seu fons artístic destaca la valuosa col·lecció d`instruments musicals europeus dels segles XVI al XX, així com una extensa representació de l`instrumental hispànic amb una col·lecció excepcional de guitarres. Hi trobareu també una mostra representativa d`instruments de les diferents cultures d`arreu del món. També cal assenyalar les col·leccions documentals històriques de músics i compositors catalans.»]]>Asimismo contiene un área dedicada a la radioafición y a la técnica.»]]> «O Museu da Música é uma instituição tutelada pelo Instituto Português de Museus onde se encontra uma das mais ricas colecções instrumentais da Europa, além de vários espólios documentais e os acervos sonoro e iconográfico.»]]> «Do acervo do Museu constam partituras manuscritas e impressas, correspondências, documentos, recortes de jornais, programas de concerto - nacionais e internacionais -, fotografias, filmes, discos, livros, objetos de uso pessoal, instrumentos musicais, homenagens e condecorações, que registram a trajetória do homem e do compositor.»]]> There are many collections in the institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, but few museums. The objectivity that accompanies museum work , from the preparation of the materials through registration to presentation and high-level interpretation is a helpful supplement to scientific research work, including musicological research.
In addition to scientific preparation and presentation, the Museum of Music History plays a significant role in education. The museum is regularly visited by students attending primary and secondary music schools, as it demonstrates the history of the instruments and shows their role in the music of past centuries and the present.» ]]> «The museum houses a collection of musical instruments from Europe, Asia and Africa from the period 1600-1900 plus a number of folk music instruments from the 20th century. Furthermore, you will find samples of notation and the use of music in the pictorial art.
The permanent collection is divided into Old Department, taking you through the music history from the Middle Ages to about 1900 illustrated by the instruments, and New Department where the instruments are topically organized. Among the topics you will find Danish instrument craft, folk music, instrument workshops, classification, signal instruments etc.»]]> «The collection's history has its start in the last century. Its beginning is closely tied to the activities of Paul de Wit (1852-1925), a Dutchman based in Leipzig. In 1886, he set up a museum next to Leipzig's St. Thomas church to display old instruments.»
«In the early 1950s the Museum was gradually rebuilt, and exhibits went on display once more. Today the collection offers the visitor an accurate perspective of the development of musical instruments in Europe from Renaissance up until the present day.» ]]> «The Vleeshuis Museum houses over 60,000 objects, among which a unique collection of ancient musical instruments. This collection developed around a few Antwerp harpsichords from the 17th and the 18th centuries. Most of them originated in the workshops of members of the famous Ruckers family. The Ruckers' dominated the production of keyboard instruments in Antwerp from the end of the 16th century until the middle of the 17th century.»]]> «...contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are 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. The collection documents the attitudes and tastes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources, all of it published in the United States.» ]]> «The exhibition comprises approximately 650 Instruments. It is arranged over three floors on which the 24 prison cells serve as exhibition cabinets. The overlapping themes revolve around the history of European music over the past 500 years.»]]> «The collection has grown to nearly 1,200 instruments from around the world, and includes numerous examples of all the basic musical instrument types, or classifications. These are: aerophones (which create sound through the vibration of air), chordophones (through the vibration of strings), membranophones (through the vibration of a stretched membrane or skin), and idiophones (which are made of naturally sonorous materials sounded in a number of different ways).» ]]> «Founded in 1973 on the campus of The University of South Dakota, the National Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments is one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. Its renowned collections, which include more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere.»]]> «Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work between September 1938 and 1941.» ]]> «Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress. Segments from interviews with members of the Omaha tribe conducted in 1983 and 1999 provide contextual information for the songs and speeches included in the collection. Supplementing the collection are black-and-white and color photographs taken during the 1983 pow-wow and the 1985 concert, as well as research materials that include fieldnotes and tape logs pertaining to the pow-wow.» ]]> «For most of the last six decades, Oscar Peterson has been Canada’s leading jazz artist. A highly accomplished pianist, polished in his technique and insightful in his artistry, he is internationally renowned as a soloist, group member and accompanist. Probably best known for his work with the trios he has led over the years, he has also accompanied such jazz greats as Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday and made a major impact as a solo artist.»]]> «Dans ces pages consacrées au père Fernand Lindsay, vous décrouvrirez le portrait d’un homme qui a voué une part importante de sa vie à la musique classique ainsi que son parcours comme fondateur et directeur de nombre d’organismes qui ont marqué le paysage musical de la région de Lanaudière.»]]> «Le portrait musical de la région de Lanaudière ne pourrait être complet sans une présentation exhaustive de la carrière de Rolland Brunelle. Musicien et pédagogue, il a consacré plus de 60 ans de sa vie à la formation musicale des masses de la région. Initiateur de nombreux projets, il a entre autre mis sur pied l’Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Joliette et l’Orchestre de la Relève.»]]> 2245 documentos. ]]> «The National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History salute Broadway and Hollywood with this exhibition on the history of the American musical and the people who gave it life.»]]> Catálogo completo y relación completa de piezas. ]]> «It consists of over 50 instruments dating from the end of the sixteenth century through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Instrument types include the harpsichord, spinet, virginal, clavichord, organ and fortepiano. All are authentic examples from the historical period, many of which retain important and interesting original features.»]]> «The Belgian Congo Records were made by the adventurer and filmmaker Armand Denis during his 1934-35 cross-Africa expedition. They were among the first recordings made of the sounds of the central Congo. The Babiara people, whose songs may be heard by clicking on the speaker icons at right, are one of the four main tribal groups who occupy the Ituri Forest. For more recordings, advance through the selection by clicking on the arrow to the left of the movie camera icon.»]]> «Play one of The Field Museum’s musical instruments through the magic of digital technology.»]]> «The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of folk music from more than 300 performers.» ]]> The Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace
«The permanent Musical Instruments Collection displayed at the Palace has three thousand exhibits.»]]> Virtual Museum Canada.
«This virtual exhibition gives you the opportunity to discover traditional musical instruments from French-speaking countries.
Staying in Tune offers you a chance to find out about traditional instruments and learn what connects them to the people who invented them. You can listen to musical excerpts and try out the many learning activities awaiting you.» ]]> «The mainstay of the collections are circa 6000 musical instruments. Western art music is especially well represented with the museum's instruments during the period 1600-1850. The collection of the 18th century woodwind is reknowned in international organological circles.
In addition, the museum has what is likely to be the largest number of Swedish folk instruments in the world plus a large number of folk instruments from elsewhere in Europe and outside, primarily from Africa and Asia.»]]> «The inaugural online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990). The multiformat Aaron Copland Collection from which the online collection derives spans the years 1910 to 1990 and includes approximately 400,000 items documenting the multifaceted life of an extraordinary person who was composer, performer, teacher, writer, conductor, commentator, and administrator. It comprises both manuscript and printed music, personal and business correspondence, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, awards, books, sound recordings, and motion pictures.» ]]> «This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future.» ]]> «The resource continues the symposium's mission by addressing Tudor's dual career as a virtuoso pianist and as a composer and performer of live electronic music. It situates his work within the history of experimental music and mixed-media collaboration in the postwar and contemporary periods.»]]>Virtual Museum Canada.
«Discover a variety of musical instruments from around the globe in this intriguing collection from the Laboratoire de recherche sur les musiques du monde (LRMM) at l'Université de Montréal. The exhibit will pique your curiosity with its quiz game and enlightening videos.» ]]> «A collection of historical woodwind, brass and percussion instruments; over a dozen historical keyboard instruments; a complete bow-maker's (William Retford) workshop and a collection of bows; and the Javanese gamelan Kyai Madu Laras. A small but interesting archive which includes many original instrument tutors is available for consultation by prior appointment.»]]> «The career of Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer, conductor, writer, and academic, is documented in the Library of Congress Music Division by approximately 4,350 items from the Irving Fine Collection. Comprising manuscript and printed music, sketchbooks, writings, personal and business correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, and sound recordings, the collection contains most of the creative work of this colleague of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.» ]]> «The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and most varied of the many special collections held by the Library of Congress Music Division. Its more than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other types of materials extensively document Bernstein's extraordinary life and career.» ]]> «In addition to its archives, the Museum houses a collection of approximately 550 old instruments, of which 75 are keyboards, such as harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and organs dating from the 16th century up to the 1940's. Two hundred of these are on permanent display in six rooms, of which three are furnished in period.»]]> «This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures are drawn from the Records of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, held by the University of Iowa Libraries. One of the largest booking agencies for the Chautauqua performers, the Redpath bureau managed a vast talent pool. Performers and lecturers were familiar names as popular entertainers or well known in the political, religious, and cultural worlds.» ]]> «Leaf through illustrated sheet music for 188 songs and piano pieces from the heyday of Victorian Music Hall to discover an entertaining sidelight on Victorian society.» ]]> The Orpheon Founation.
«The collection now contains over 100 instruments (viola da gamba, viola d'amore, violin, viola, violoncello, violone, baryton) dating mostly from 1560 to 1780, all restored to their original playing conditions and placed at the disposal of members of the Orpheon Orchestra, Orpheon Consort, students of the University for Music and the Performing Arts Vienna and professional musicians all over Europe for concerts, recordings and study purposes. It is the living acoustical heritage - the sounds that these instruments produce for those living today - that interests us, and not their mere decorative flair as objets trouvés from aristocratic residences from our distant past.»]]> «...is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).» ]]> «...includes more than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music. The collection spans the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of Lincoln's birth in 1909. This music was compiled by Alfred Whital Stern (1881-1960), who is considered the greatest private collector of materials relating to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln.» ]]> «The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1938 Gottlieb began working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and illustrated a weekly jazz column--perhaps the first in a major newspaper. After World War II he was employed as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine, and his work also appeared frequently in Record Changer, the Saturday Review, and Collier's.» ]]> «Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress. The letters were written primarily in the early 1940s, shortly after Guthrie had moved to New York City and met the Archive's assistant in charge, Alan Lomax. In New York Guthrie pursued broadcasting and recording careers, meeting a cadre of artists and social activists and gaining a reputation as a talented and influential songwriter and performer.» ]]> The Digital Journalist. ]]> «See our unique collection of stringed instruments by the greatest Italian makers - on public display for the first time. A floor of English pianos tracing technical developments during the first half of the 19th century (coming soon). Items from the working collections of eminent musicians and from the history of the Academy.»]]>