Happy New Year from the NLS Music Section, and welcome to our latest additions to BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download)! Our newest braille transcription is Ray Charles: A Man and His Soul (BRM38001), a collection of beloved renditions for voice and piano, sure to provide hours of enjoyment for admirers of this jazz master. For our music appreciation talking books, we’ve just added fascinating lectures, concerts, and interviews from our colleagues in the Library of Congress Music Division and the American Folklife Center. For those who play the recorder, we’ve recently digitized more method books and repertoire in braille for you to explore. And last but not least, this month we’ve continued to add to BARD more braille scores for the Lyric Pieces for piano—a treat for lovers of Edvard Grieg!
You can download all the listed materials through BARD. To borrow cartridges or embossed braille music, please contact the Music Section for more information. You can call us at 1-800-424-8567, ext. 2, or e-mail us at [email protected], and we will be happy to assist you!
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Audio
Piano by Ear—Bill Brown
Morning Mood, op. 46, no. 1. “Morgenstemning” from Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg. Late intermediate lesson (DBM04709)
Prelude no. 2 in Cm, BWV 847 by J.S. Bach. Late intermediate lesson (DBM04710)
Prelude no. 3 in C sharp, BWV 848 by J.S. Bach. Late intermediate level (DBM04711)
Music Appreciation
American Folklife Center. Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison (DBM04689)
___Múscraí Singing Tradition of County Cork, Ireland: Lecture (DBM04688)
Library of Congress Music Division. He Came, He Saw, He Concord: Technique and Texture in the Music of Ives and Ravel (DBM04691)
___Is That Natural?: Horn Trios of Brahms and Ligeti (DBM04690)
___Octets by Debussy, Loeffler and Schubert: Concert and Conversation (DBM04693)
___Les Violons du Roy: Concert and Conversation (DBM04692)
Braille Music
Music Theory
Ottman, Robert W. Advanced Harmony: Theory and Practice. English contracted braille with musical examples in single line and bar over bar formats (BRM24377)
Piano
Grieg, Edvard. Lyric Pieces, Book 5, op. 54. For piano in bar by bar format (BRM01275)
___Lyric Pieces, Book 6, nos. 1-3, op. 57. For piano in bar by bar format (BRM05516)
___Lyric Pieces, Book 6, nos. 4-6, op. 57. For piano in bar by bar format (BRM05515)
___Lyric Pieces, Book 8, nos. 1-3, op. 65. For piano in bar by bar format (BRM05514)
___Lyric Pieces, Book 9, op. 68. For piano in bar by bar format (BRM05518)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei. Prelude in G, no. 5 of 13 Préludes for the piano, op. 32. Bar by bar format (BRM01441)
Schumann, Robert. Arabeske, op. 18. For piano in bar by bar format (BRM01571)
Recorder
Famous Ballet Tunes, Book 1: For Solo Descant (Soprano) Recorder. Arranged by T. S. Walker. Single line format (BRM06428)
Famous Ballet Tunes, Book 2: For Solo Descant (Soprano) Recorder. Arranged by T. S. Walker. Single line format (BRM06430)
Fiske, Roger and Jack P. B. Dobbs. The Oxford School Music Books: Senior Book 1. For recorder in single line and bar over bar formats (BRM01589)
Lœillet, Jean Baptiste. Sonaten: für Blockflöte (Querflöte, Violine, Oboe) und Basso Continuo : Op. 1, [nr.] 1-3. For recorder, violin, or oboe; viola da gamba; and harpsichord or piano. Paragraph format (BRM25530)
Priestley, Edmund and Fred Fowler. The School Recorder Handbook: A Supplementary Edition to the School Recorder Books (I and II). Line by line and single line formats (BRM02759)
Vocal
Charles, Ray and David Olsen. Ray Charles: A Man and His Soul. Popular songs and jazz vocals as performed by Ray Charles. For voice and piano with chord symbols. Line by line and bar over bar formats (BRM38001)