Resources - selection of virtual and tangible copyright resources

6/30/05 The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is amending its regulations governing the content and service of certain notices on the copyright owner of a musical work (37 CFR 201). The notice is served or filed by a person who intends to use a musical work to make and distribute phonorecords, including by means of digital phonorecord deliveries, under a compulsory license. For further information, go to the Copyright Office website at www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2004/69fr34578.html

- You will find:
Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century

Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will bring to life the artists and their works.

Glossary: 200 definitions with numerous musical examples.

- A Baroque Music Sampler
- Over two hours of music samples - Bach, and major baroque composers
- Gottfried Silbermann: Master Organ-Builder

- 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.

- These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. Photographic prints from the Lomaxes' other Southern states expeditions, as well as their other recording trips made under the auspices of the Library of Congress, illustrate the collection, since no photographs from the 1939 Southern States Recording Trip have been identified.

- For more information about related documentary projects undertaken by the Archive of American Folk Song in 1939, see the 1939 Annual Report of the Library of Congress.

- This presentation is made possible by the generous support of The Texaco Foundation.