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This is a list of online digital musical document libraries. Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources). They may contain scanned images, fully encoded scores, or encodings designed for music playback (e.g., via MIDI).
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and inform or reflect life in the United States." [1] The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, [2] which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are ...
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 4 ] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials.
The Library of Congress Recording Sessions refers to a March 1940 session of recordings Woody Guthrie made in Washington, D.C., for Alan Lomax. They were catalogued in the United States Library of Congress. They are notable as the first recordings made of Woody Guthrie. They contain several traditional songs and three of Guthrie's best known ...
Free sound resources. Shortcut. WP:FSR. There are a number of free sound effects resources of public domain or free content sound recordings appropriate for Wikipedia use available online, and as well as in other contexts. All files should be converted to ogg, Wikipedia's patent-free format of choice.
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.
From 1969 to 1988, the campus was a high-security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board.With the approval of the United States Congress in 1997, it was purchased by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond via a $5.5 million grant, done on behalf of the Library of Congress.
The Complete Plantation Recordings, subtitled The Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Field Recordings, is a compilation album of the blues musician Muddy Waters ' first recordings collected by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941-42 and released by the Chess label in 1993. [ 1] Lomax recorded Waters at Stovall Farm in Clarksdale ...