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Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
One would think the act of writing music would be enough of a task for most people, but with some composers, creativity is not enough. They enjoy a challenge, and some have an interest in letters and numbers and what they can do to arrange them into cryptograms. It’s a way to bury a message, …
Posted in: Arnold Schoenberg, Braille Music, Cryptograms, Music Composition, NLS Music Section, Uncategorized
Posted by: John Hanson
A couple of weeks ago, one of my colleagues here at NLS, David Fernandez-Barrial, asked me if I had seen the Grammy award ceremony (which took place Monday, February 15, 2016). I had to admit I hadn’t; I was, uh, practicing my Hindemith songs. Well, it turns out that Stevie Wonder, one of the presenters at …
Posted in: Braille, Braille Music, David Fernandez-Barrial, Marrakesh Treaty, NLS Music Section, Popular Music Lead Sheets, Stevie Wonder
Posted by: John Hanson
The following is a guest blog by Donna Koh, Music Reader Services Librarian in the Music Section. There are a few experiences in my life that I know I will never forget. One of them took place when I was 9 years old and living in Korea. One evening, my piano teacher called my …
Posted in: Braille Music, Piano, Piano Music, Ravel
Posted by: Katie Rodda
As we are exiting the period that can still be referred to as “the new year” and are approaching the season of renewal known as spring, we’d like to highlight some of our recent publications, namely our new catalogs. Although we’ve had blog posts about magazines produced by the Music Section (Musical Mainstream and Contemporary …
Posted in: Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Catalogs, Instrumental Music, Large Print, Large Print Music, Music Instruction, NLS Music Section, Piano, Piano Music, Talking Books