ARTS:

"Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grand"

is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious & secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico & Southern Colorado. The collection consists of approximately 8 hours of audio recordings (146 titles on 36 recording discs), 1 graphic image, & 218 pages of print material including administrative correspondence, recording logs, song text transcriptions, & publications. (LOC)

"Inventing Entertainment: The Edison Companies"

features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, & other related materials, such as photographs & original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the near future. In addition, histories are given of Edison's involvement with motion pictures & sound recordings, as well as a special page focusing on the life of the great inventor. (LOC)

"Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music"

consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music & secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books & instructional materials, & music for band & orchestra. This first release of the online collection consists of over 22,000 musical compositions registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1879. (LOC)

"National Directory of Teacher Programs & Resources in Art Museums"

opens up, by state or by topic, expanded listings about art museums throughout the country. (NGA)

"Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929"

is a digitalized collection of this once popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. & Canadian cities & towns during the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, & aero views, panoramic maps are non-photographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, & major landscape features in perspective. (LOC)

"East Building Architectural Tour"

shows several photographs & accompanying discussion of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, which opened in 1978. The tour is centered around the architectural features of the building itself rather than the art works exhibited. Audio commentaries from the designer of the building, I.M. Pei, & the director of the Gallery, Earl A. Powell, III, are available. (NGA)

"The Emergence of New Genres"

exhibits 6 Italian paintings of the late 16th & early 17th centuries that show the establishment of landscape, still life, & genre paintings as subjects worthy of the finest artists for the first time since antiquity. (NGA)

"Raphael"

shows paintings of the youngest of the 3 painters who epitomize the High Renaissance. According to the exhibit, "What Leonardo achieved by sheer intellect & Michelangelo through passionate intuition, Raphael acquired by persistent study & assimilation." (NGA)

"Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century"

shows 7 paintings of what has been called the "Golden Age of Spanish Painting." (NGA)

"Venice & the North"

is a tour of 16th century Italian painters who lived in areas largely under Venetian control. The site discusses the interplay of influences of both the Protestant Reformation in areas bordering just north of where these painters worked & the Catholic Counter-Reformation response. (NGA)

"Whistler, Sargent, & Tanner -- Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s"

shows several paintings of 3 American painters who not only studied abroad but chose to remain abroad. (NGA)

"Electronic Rehab"

is an interactive web class that introduces the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation to anyone thinking about rehabilitating a historic building. Visitors can see the Standards, who uses them & how, the DOs & DON'Ts of rehabilitation, & examples of work (illustrating each Standard). The site includes a follow-up quiz on the rehabilitation of two historic buildings -- one commercial & one residential. (NPS)

"Illustrated Guidelines for Rehabilitation Historic Buildings"

is designed to help property owners, developers, & federal managers apply the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation during the project planning stage. (NPS)

"A New Lease on Life"

explains how objects such as a letter written by Abe Lincoln & a dress worn by Lady Bird Johnson's are preserved to ensure safety while on exhibit in a museum. The site looks at steps taken by conservators to preserve objects, including examination, stabilization, research, & restoration. (NPS)

"The Shaw Memorial"

focuses on the powerful memorial created by Saint-Gaudens to honor one of the first African-American units of the Civil War. Six sections of in-depth material explore the artist & his working methods, historical background on Shaw & the regiment, the memorial & its conservation, text from the exhibition, & teaching resources. (NGA)

"Symbols in Battle: Civil War Flags in NPS Collections"

is a collection of historic battle flags that were carried by Southern & Northern military units during the Civil War. The site describes how these flags were designed to identify different regiments & their many purposes during wartime. (NPS)

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