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Archive: December 2015 (2 Posts)

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New Year, New BARD Titles

Posted by: Katie Rodda

I hope everyone out there had a relaxing and peace-filled holiday season. Now that the year is almost through, it’s time to look ahead to 2016 and the new beginnings that await us there. In keeping with that spirit, this blog will highlight some of the newest braille and digital talking books that have been …

Posted in: Audio, Bluegrass, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Folk Music, Guitar instruction, Instrumental Music, Music History and Appreciation, Music Instruction, New Acquisitions, NLS Music Section, Orchestra, Performing music, Piano, Popular Music, Recordings

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Happy Birthday Nino Rota

Posted by: Katie Rodda

Although motion pictures are, for all intents and purposes, a visual art form, one can still appreciate the music from those films on their own without the movie-going experience. For this I am grateful, as, being more drawn to music than film (and having limited spare time to catch all the movies that I’d like …

Posted in: American Composers, Audio, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Instrumental Music, Music History and Appreciation, Music Instruction, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Piano, Popular Music, Popular Music Lead Sheets, Recordings, Talking Books