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Archive: February 2016 (4 Posts)

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Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann — New Music Titles

Posted by: Amanda Smith

Over the past month, the Music Section has added more than 45 new braille, audio, and large-print music titles by roughly twenty-five different composers to its collection. Together, just three composers, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Schumann, wrote compositions that comprise nearly a quarter of the total amount of those additions. I thought it a good …

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Free Braille Music Scores: List No. 4

Posted by: John Hanson

Dear Readers, This is the FOURTH post announcing a new set of braille scores that are free for the asking. There are more than 100 scores in the new spreadsheet  list. As before, these are scores that have been received over the years as gifts from individuals, libraries and braille producers.  They are duplicates of …

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German Lieder

Posted by: John Hanson

The following is a guest blog by Donna Koh, Music Reader Services Librarian   This blog is for those classical music lovers who marvel at the beauty and versatility of the human voice but find many operas overdramatic, long and overwhelming. If I may make a confession, I am one of those music lovers.  Fortunately for …