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Registry title works, original or copies, are housed at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus for Audio Video Conservation. Each yearly list typically includes a few recordings that have also been selected for inclusion in the holdings of the National Archives ' audiovisual collection.
The United States National Recording Preservation Board selects recorded sounds for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.The National Recording Registry was initiated to maintain and preserve "sound recordings that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; to be eligible, recordings must be at least ten years old.
The Library of Congress: The Library of Congress: The Moldenhauer Archives: Western music: 130 Representative examples documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era, including many complete works. The Library of Congress: Medieval Music Database: medieval: Four complete manuscripts, a gradual, and ...
A. Abraxas (album) Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; Adagio for Strings; After You've Gone (song) Ain't Misbehavin' (song) Ain't No Sunshine; Aja (album) Alice's Restaurant
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled [1] (NLS) is a free library program of braille and audio materials such as books and magazines circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States and American citizens living abroad by postage-free mail and online download. The program is sponsored by the Library of Congress.
In 1938, noted musicologist and Morton biographer Alan Lomax conducted a series of interviews with Morton at the Library of Congress. [1] Richard Cook and Brian Morton describe these recordings as Jelly Roll Morton's "virtual history of the birth pangs of jazz as it happened in the New Orleans of the turn of the century.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife". [1] The center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music.
The Music Division's director Carl Engel announced in April 1928 that the Library of Congress would appoint the folk song collector Robert Winslow Gordon as the archive's first director and explained the archive's scope as “a national collection of folk song … to ensure their preservation and to recognize the value of the folk heritage.” [1] In the Library of Congress’ annual report ...