Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress

Composer and pianist, Franz Liszt, was born on October 22, 1811. This presentation marks his bicentennial with selected scores, images and other resources from the collections.

New composers and public domain choral works have been added to this collaboration of the the Library and the American Choral Directors Association.

As part of the Library's commemoration of the American Civil War, learn more about the events surrounding the war through the songs and instrumental music of the era.

Lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music.

An online exhibition exploring the show's history through the Ball and Arnaz family scrapbooks as well as photographs, scripts, printed and manuscript music, and other documents.