Season’s Greetings from the NLS Music Section! As we prepare to ring in the new year, the NLS Music Section is proud to present our latest additions to BARD (Braille Audio Reading Download).
There’s something for all of our patrons, including guitarists and pianists. If you’re looking to deepen your understanding of guitar technique and theory, we’ve added three lessons of guitar triads by Bill Brown. We’ve also acquired songs by Dan Fogelberg and Joe Diffie, both taught on guitar by Bill Brown. For the pianists, Brown teaches you how to play one of Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and a Bach fugue, completely by ear!
If you missed our webinar on the Monterey Pop Festival, we’ve added the recording of that presentation to our collection. Katie Rodda gives wonderful insight into one of music’s most hallowed crossroads. We’ve also added three concerts and interviews presented by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Finally, for our braille patrons, we’ve added piano works by Benjamin Britten and Sergei Rachmaninoff, lessons for the recorder, and Use Your Illusion II on guitar by Guns ‘n Roses. There is something for everyone!
You can also borrow materials below by mail, not only through BARD. Simply contact the Music Section to borrow talking books on digital cartridge or embossed copies of braille music. Call us at 1-800-424-8567, ext. 2, or e-mail us at [email protected].
For more information about getting started with BARD, use this link: Sign up for BARD and Accessing BARD.
Audio
Guitar by Ear – Bill Brown
Guitar Triads: Volume 1. Intermediate level. (DBM04702)
Guitar Triads: Volume 2. Intermediate level. (DBM04703)
Guitar Triads: Volume 3. Intermediate level. (DBM04704)
Leader of the Band. As performed by Dan Fogelberg. Beginner level. (DBM04699)
More. As featured in the 1964 documentary “Mondo Crane.” Intermediate level. (DBM04700)
Pickup Man. As recorded by Joe Diffie. Late beginner level. (DBM04701)
Piano by Ear – Bill Brown
Arietta op. 12, no. 1. From Lyric Pieces, book 1, by Edvard Grieg. Late intermediate level. (DBM04705)
Fugue no. 2 in C minor, BWV 847. Late intermediate level. (DBM04707)
Fugue no. 3 in C-sharp major, BWV 848. Late intermediate level. (DBM04706)
Music Appreciation
American Folklife Center. Charly Lowry: Concert and Conversation. Charly Lowry is a dynamic singer-songwriter from Pembroke, North Carolina. An Indigenous woman belonging to the Lumbee and Tuscarora Tribes, she considers her work a platform for raising awareness around issues that plague underdeveloped and underserved Native communities. She earned a semi-finalist spot on season 3 of American Idol, and tours solo and as the frontwoman for the multi award-winning band, “Dark Water Rising.” After the performance, Charly Lowry speaks with Stephen Winick and Megan Nicholas of the American Folklife Center. (DBM04685)
____ Istiwanāt Live! Arabic Music Ensemble: Concert and Conversation. Istiwanāt Live! Arabic Music Ensemble reinterprets music that was originally performed 100 years ago for a transnational industry of Arab, Arab American and international record labels, and which has recently been released into the public domain. The concert is inspired by the “Archive Challenge,” an initiative of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and draws on archived recordings in Loeb Library at Harvard University and the Library of Congress. After the concert, John Fenn sits down with Anne K. Rasmussen, Jared Holton, Albert Agha and Anne Elise Thomas of Istiwanāt Live! Arabic Music Ensemble. (DBM04679)
____ Robert B. Jones, Sr.: Concert and Conversation. Rev. Robert B. Jones Sr. is an inspirational musician and storyteller celebrating the history, humor and power of American roots music. His deep love for traditional African American and American music is shared in live performances that interweave timeless stories with original and traditional songs. For more than 30 years, Jones has entertained and educated audiences of all ages in schools, colleges, libraries, union halls, prisons, churches and civil rights organizations. Jones is an award-winning blues radio host, has taught music history at Wayne State University and serves as a member of the affiliate faculty at Boston’s Berklee School of Music. Following the performance, Rev. Robert B. Jones Sr. speaks with Stephen Winick of the American Folklife Center. (DBM04684)
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. NLS Music Notes: The Festival that Changed American Music. Narration of blog post “The Festival That Changed American Music,” followed by interview with author. Chronicles the origin of the Monterey Pop Festival. Hosted by Juliette Appold and presented by Katie Rodda. (DBM04663)
Braille
Instructional
Macpherson, Stewart. Rudiments of Music. English contracted braille with musical examples in bar by bar format. (BRM11324)
Piano
Britten, Benjamin. Night Piece (Notturno). Bar over bar format. (BRM08581)
____ Sailing from “Holiday Diary.” Bar over bar format. (BRM28954)
Grieg, Edvard. Lyric Pieces, Book 7, nos. 1-3, op. 62. Bar by bar format. (BRM05512)
____ Lyric Pieces, Book 7, nos. 4-6, op. 62. Bar by bar format. (BRM05511)
____ Lyric Pieces, Book 8, nos. 4-6, op. 65. Bar by bar format. (BRM05513)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei. Prelude no. 5 in G minor, op. 23. Bar by bar format. (BRM01440)
Vocal
Britten, Benjamin. Coaching Song. Line by line and bar over bar format. (BRM05173)
____ Folksong Arrangements, Volume 2, France. For medium voice and piano in line by line and bar over bar format. (BRM28741)
Guns ‘n Roses. Use Your Illusion II, Authorized Edition. As performed by Guns ‘n Roses. For voice and guitar in section by section format. (BRM35673)
Wind Instruments
Dolmetsch, Arnold. Greensleeves to a Ground. For descant recorder and keyboard in single line and bar over bar format. (BRM29052)
____ Greensleeves to a Ground. For treble recorder and keyboard in single line and bar over bar format. (BRM29053)
Eyck, Jacob van. Der Fluyten-lusthof: Variationen für Sopranblockflöte solo. For recorder in section by section format. (BRM33491)
Linde, Hans Martin. Neuzeitliche Übungsstücke für die Altblockflöte. For recorder in paragraph format. (BRM25129)