Admitted
Pipes of Peace
Paul McCartney · 1983
The song that gave this treasury its name. Under the melody is a simple claim: on both sides of every line, people want to love and be left in peace.
The music treasury
Pipes of Peace
A growing musical treasury of songs and pieces that help the soul breathe, steady, soften, and remember. Not everything qualifies — this is selective, and intentionally so.
Admitted
Peace Train
Playing for Change with Yusuf / Cat Stevens · 2021
Fifty years on, the train is still boarding. This version gathers musicians around the world onto one platform, which is rather the point.
Admitted
The UK Blessing
Churches across the UK · 2020
More than sixty churches recorded themselves at home and were stitched into one voice. The stitching is the keep itself: a nation's worth of living rooms agreeing, line by line, to bless one another and be kept in peace.
Admitted
O-o-h Child
International Musical Collective · after The Five Stairsteps, 1970
A lullaby for humanity's future: things are gonna get easier. This gathering of voices from many countries is what earns it the shelf.
Admitted
Peace Piece
Bill Evans · Everybody Digs Bill Evans, 1958
Two chords, patiently revisited, until the listener remembers what unhurried feels like. Admitted without discussion.
Admitted
Peace Is Coming
Peter Deunov · for string quartet
Deunov entered the melody under a subtitle: 'The Unknown who is coming.' Two violins and two cellos take it up patiently, which is about as close as music gets to an invitation.
Under consideration
Provisional entries — pieces we're listening with before they earn a shelf.
Simple Gifts
Traditional Shaker hymn
'Tis the gift to be simple. Provisional while we decide which recording earns the shelf.
Peace Like a River
Traditional spiritual
I've got peace like a river in my soul. Under consideration for the treasury.