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Archive: June 2021 (4 Posts)

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New BARD additions: June 2021

Posted by: Katie Rodda

Today’s blog post rounds up all the new digital acquisitions and digitized items added to BARD in June 2021 by the NLS Music Section.

Posted in: American Composers, American Printing House for the Blind, Art Songs, Audio, Bach, Band, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Choral, Classical Music, Country Music, Instrumental Music, Jazz, Marrakesh Treaty, Music Education, Music History and Appreciation, Music Instruction, New Acquisitions, NLS Music Section, Organ, Piano Music, Smithsonian Folkways, Talking Books

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Song Stories: Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”

Posted by: Brian McCurdy

For this installment of "Song Stories", we are going to explore how James Agee's prose and Samuel Barber's music came together for "Knoxville: Summer of 1915."

Posted in: Aaron Copland, American Composers, Art Songs, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Orchestra, Pulitzer Prize, Song settings, Uncategorized, Voyager Catalog

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American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection: A – Arkansas Traveler

Posted by: Juliette Appold

Welcome to our new blog-series, in which we will feature American Music treasures available in the NLS Music Collection, starting with letter A and going through the alphabet. This blog will feature the "Arkansas Traveler" and its stories. We hope you enjoy our snapshots into American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection.

Posted in: American Composers, Bluegrass, Folk Music, State Song, Uncategorized