A few weeks ago, I pulled a little book from the Music Section’s reference collection, An Introduction to Music Publishing: A Tour Through the Music Publishing Operations Involved in Transforming the Composer’s Manuscript Into a Printed Publication and Its Dissemination to the Student and the Performer. The front cover of this book features Beethoven as …
Transcribers. Where would we be without them? All of us who provide braille music, or who need and use braille music, are indebted to the labors of braille music transcribers. So how do you become a music transcriber? (Hint: We need more.) The first step is to take and pass the literary braille course, offered …
Spring has sprung around these parts in Washington, DC, but for this blog post I am going to continue with our international theme and wax poetic about springtime in France. I’m bringing up this geographic location because two well-known French composers, Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet, share a birthday today, May 12! Although neither Fauré …
Sí!, Today is Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday and I am taking this opportunity to explain why it is NOT Mexican Independence Day. That date is September 16th, and perhaps that will be a future blog post. But, this holiday celebrates the Mexican army’s victory over the French at the town of Puebla. Mexico has …
