This offering from the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory collection consists of musical scores, recordings, photographs, and essays documenting American brass band music in the second half of the nineteenth century. It includes over 700 musical compositions, a photo gallery, eight full-score modern editions, and a recording of a 1974 concert of mid-nineteenth-century brass band music....

An alumnus of Johns Hopkins University, Lester S. Levy had a profound love of music and, in 1976, presented his collection of over 29,000 pieces of sheet music to the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at his alma mater. Spanning from 1780 to 1980, the collection is especially strong in music related to military conflicts, the circus, and minstrels. The staff at the Eisenhower Library have devoted a...