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Sound recordings

Here are entered works on all types of media used for the recording of sound including cylinders, analog discs, digital discs, films, tapes, and wires, as well as works about analog discs alone.

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• Audio-visual materials

• Sound recordings -- Bibliography
• Sound recordings -- Catalogs
• Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting
• Sound recordings -- Congresses
• Sound recordings -- Conservation and restoration
• Sound recordings -- Dictionaries, indexes, etc.
• Sound recordings -- Digitization
• Sound recordings -- Fair use (Copyright)
• Sound recordings -- Government policy
• Sound recordings -- Labeling
• Sound recordings -- Libraries and Collections
• Sound recordings -- Manufacturers' catalogs
• Sound recordings -- Periodicals
• Sound recordings -- Pirated editions
• Sound recordings -- Preservation
• Sound recordings -- Prices
• Sound recordings -- Production and direction
• Sound recordings -- Reviews
• Sound recordings -- Selected lists
• Sound recordings -- Social aspects
• Sound recordings -- United States
• Sound recordings -- Washington (D.C.)
• Audiobooks
• Audiotapes
• Cataloging of sound recordings
• Compact discs
• Copyright -- Sound recordings
• Cover versions
• Cylinder recordings
• Libraries -- Special collections -- Sound recordings
• Record labels

• Audio discs
• Audio recordings
• Audiorecordings
• Discs, Audio
• Discs, Sound
• Disks, Sound
• Phonodiscs
• Phonograph records
• Phonorecords
• Recordings, Audio
• Recordings, Sound
• Records, Phonograph
• Records, Sound
• Sound discs

• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sound recordings and the library. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987), by Sharon G. Almquist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Automatic record changers and recorders (J. F. Rider, inc., 1941), by John F. Rider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record book; a music lover's guide to the world of the phonograph (Smith & Durrell, 1940), by David Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Use of mechanical reproduction of music : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, second session, pursuant to S. Res. 286, a resolution autorizing an investigation of the action of the American Federation of Musicians in denying its members the right to play or contract for recordings or other forms of mechanical reproduction of music, September 17, 18, and 21, 1942. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 286 (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to make good recordings. (Audio devices, inc., 1942), by inc Audio devices (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wear and care of records and styli (Climax Pub. Co., 1954), by Harold D. Weiler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Techniques of recording (Gamble hinged music co., 1939), by Francis Howard Goldsmith and Victor George Geisel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recordings for school use, 1942- , a catalog of appraisals (World book company, 1942), by John Robert Miles and American Council on Education. Recordings Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendments Act of 1981--S. 691 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on S. 691 ... June 19, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record book : supplement (Smith & Durrell, 1941), by David Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Projectionist's manual. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1954), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• What we hear in music; a course of study in music history and appreciation for use in the home, high schools, norman schools, colleges, and universities : also for special courses in conservatories and music clubs (Camden, N.J., 1929), by Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer and inc RCA-Victor Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to make good recordings. (Audio Devices, Inc., 1945), by Inc Audio Devices (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victor records (RCA Victor company, inc., in the 20th century), by inc RCA Manufacturing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unauthorized duplication of sound recordings. (Paul T. Jackson, 1960), by Barbara A. Ringer and Trademarks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record book. Supplement (Smith & Durrell, 1941), by David Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook for production of filmstrips and records (Dukane Corp., Audio-Visual Division, 1962), by Dukane Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to create sound effects for home recordings. (Castle Press, 1946), by Ed Ludes and Hallock B. Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Phonogrammarchiv der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien von seiner Gründung bis zur Neueinrichtung im Jahre 1927 (Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1928), by Leo Hajek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Act to Amend Titles 18 and 17 of the United States Code to Strengthen the Laws Against Record, Tape, and Film Piracy and Counterfeiting, and For Other Purposes. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1982), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quick civics lessons for the naturalization test ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2013, 2013), by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quick civics lessons for the naturalization test (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services :, 2011), by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quick civics lessons for the naturalization test (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services :, 2010), by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audio-visual bulletin for foreign languages : junior and senior high school. ([Oakland] : [Oakland Public Schools] [1953], 1953), by Oakland (Calif.). Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library of Congress catalogs (Rowman and Littlefield, 1961), by Library of Congress and American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music America loves best on Victor and Bluebird records selected from the great Victor record catalog (RCA Victor division, Radio Corporation of America, 1943), by Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cylinder records; a description of the numbering systems, physical appearance, and other aspects of cylinder records made by the major American companies, with brief remakers about the earliest American companies and foreign record manufacturers. 1st printing. (Stockton, Calif., 1956), by Duane D. Deakins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• For tired eyes: books and recordings. (New York Public Library, 1961), by New York Public Library. Readers' Adviser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spoken records (long play) available on loan from the General Reference Unit of the State Library to public libraries, school libraries, individuals. ([Lansing], 1968), by Michigan. State Library Division and Michigan State Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recordings for children; a selected list. ([Albany?, 1961), by New York Library Association. Children's and Young Adult Services Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to spoken-word recordings : foreign-language instruction and literature. (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Library of Congress, 1988), by Linda Redmond and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sources of audiovisual materials on disabilities (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Library of Congress, 1995), by Carol Strauss and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to spoken-word recordings-- literature. (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1983), by Linda Redmond and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to spoken-word recordings : foreign language literature and instruction. (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1983), by Linda Redmond and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to spoken-word recordings : general nonfiction. (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1983), by Linda Redmond and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Band discography (Berger Band, 1954), by Kenneth Berger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to spoken-word recordings : educational, professional, and self-development materials (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1984), by Linda Redmond and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to spoken word recordings (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Library of Congress, 2004), by Carol Strauss and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalog of phonograph records and transcriptions of the Department of Audio-visual Education. (El Paso, 1949), by El Paso Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spoken word recordings (State Library Services, 1974), by Michigan. State Library Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary catalog of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. (G.K. Hall, 1981), by Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and New York Public Library. Library & Museum of the Performing Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gramophone shop encyclopedia of recorded music. (Simon and Schuster, 1942), by inc. Gramophone shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twentieth century poetry in English, contemporary recordings of the poets reading their own poems; catalog of phonograph records. (Reference Dept., Library of Congress, 1951), by Library of Congress. Music Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music (Library of Congress, 1973), by Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and phonorecords (Library of Congress., 1953), by Library of Congress and Library of Congress. Catalog Maintenance Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Listeners' index; the University Library and Fine Arts Reading Room. ([Chicago, 1958), by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Chicago Undergraduate Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonmusical recordings. (Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1963), by Enoch Pratt Free Library. Literature Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katalog I der Platten 1-2000 des durch die Mittel der Treitl-Stiftung gegründeten und erhaltenen Phonogramm-Archives der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Wien, 1922), by Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Phonogramm-Archivs-Kommission and Sigmund Exner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Victor records. (Victor Talking Machine Company, in the 0s), by Victor Talking Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of Edison records echo all over the world, made at the Edison Laboratory. (s.n., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Columbia records, June (s.n., 1917), by Ont.) Columbia Graphophone Company (Toronto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalog of Victor records, with biographic material, opera notes, artist's portraits, and special red seal and green sections. (Camden, N.J., in the 20th century), by Victor Talking Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The music of Brazil (Music Division, Pan American Union, 1943), by Albert T. Luper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Phonograph records and filmstrips for classroom and library : kindergarten to grade 12 (Educational Record Sales, 1957), by Educational Record Sales (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalog of radio recordings : a transcription service for schools (Published by the Federal Radio Education Committee with the cooperation of the U.S. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946), by Gertrude Golden Broderick, United States Office of Education, and Federal Radio Education Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalog of Victor records (Victor Talking Machine Company, in the 1910s), by Victor Talking Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audio-visual bulletin for foreign languages : junior and senior high school. ([Oakland] : [Oakland Public Schools] [1953], 1953), by Oakland (Calif.). Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library of Congress catalogs (Rowman and Littlefield, 1961), by Library of Congress and American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Columbia ... record catalogue. (Columbia Graphophone Company, in the 1920s), by Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.) and Robert M. Skirvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music America loves best on Victor and Bluebird records selected from the great Victor record catalog (RCA Victor division, Radio Corporation of America, 1943), by Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bridges, moods & themes. (New York, 1950), by New York Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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