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Notice: Performing Arts Encyclopedia collections have moved.
We've migrated the collections formerly on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia site to new presentations. See the list or browse the full array of digital collections at loc.gov/collections
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U.S. ISMN Public Archive
Search information about all items registered by publishers with the U.S. ISMN Agency, includes newly published music as well as backlist items.
Chasanoff/Elozua "Amazing Grace" Collection Database
Search a database of recorded performances of the hymn by more than 3000 different musicians or ensembles.
It's Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen
A database of over 18,000 shows and productions dating from the 1690s to the present, containing more than 67,000 songs
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- Chasanoff/Elozua "Amazing Grace" Collection
Search a database of recordings - It's Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen
Search a catalog of sheet music - Jazz on the Screen
A Jazz and Blue Filmography by David Meeker - Show Music on Record
A searchable database based on the book by Jack Raymond - Silent Feature Film Database
From the report "The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929" - Tap Dance in America
a Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media by Constance Valis Hill - Traditional Music & Spoken Word Catalog
Search information on approximately 34,000 ethnographic sound recordings from the American Folklife Center - U.S. ISMN Public Archive
Search International Standard Music Number (ISMN) item records for music scores
Last Updated: April 17, 2017