Greetings from the NLS Music Section! As we enter the Fall season and get ready for the month of October, we are proud to present our latest audio and braille additions to BARD (Braille Audio Reading Download).
We’re back with more Bill Brown lessons on piano and guitar! For pianists, he will teach you how to play the “Ozdust Duet” from the film version of “Wicked,” and the beloved song “The Rainbow Connection” from “The Muppet Movie.” Guitarists will be able to learn fingerstyle solos to “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and “Killing me Softly.”
Our braille patrons will be thrilled with our wide variety of music that is now available on BARD. We’ve added several of the preludes from the opus 32 set by Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as a piano transcription of Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse.” Picking up from last month, we are continuing to add titles from the “Celebration Series: Perspectives” from the Royal College of Music piano library. Finally, with the Winter holiday season right around the corner, we’ve added two collections of Christmas carols.
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
Music Instruction
Piano
Brown, Bill. Beginner Boogie Solos, Volume 1. (DBM04725)
____ Ozdust Duet. As composed by Stephen Schwartz for the film version of “Wicked.” (DBM04735)
____ The Rainbow Connection. As performed in “The Muppet Movie.” (DBM04736)
Guitar
Brown, Bill. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Finger style solo in the style of Elton John. (DBM04737)
____ Killing Me Softly. As performed by Roberta Flack. (DBM04740)
Braille
Choral
Shaw, Martin. With a Voice of Singing. For mixed chorus in line by line format. 4 braille volumes combined into one digital volume. (BRM04614)
Thompson, Randall. The God Who Gave us Life. From “The Testament of Freedom.” For mixed chorus (TTBB) in line by line format. (BRM04796)
Libretti
Stravinsky, Igor. Oedipus Rex and The Rake’s Progress. Latin text with translation in English contracted braille. (BRM30068)
Multiple Instruments
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Trio in E-flat major, op. 38. For clarinet or violin, cello and piano. Single line and bar over bar format. (BRM25646)
Music Appreciation
Royal Conservatory of Music. Celebrate Theory: Level 9, History. Explores styles, genres, composers and works from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era. Contains musical examples in line by line and bar over bar format. (BRM38049)
Piano
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Complete Bagatelles for Piano. Bar over bar format. (BRM38047)
Bizet, Georges. L’Arlésienne: Incidental Music to the Melodrama by Alphonse Daudet. Bar over bar format. (BRM22087)
Field, John. Nocturne no. 7 in A major. Bar over bar format. (BRM02845)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei. Prelude no.1 in C major, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35052)
____ Prelude no. 2 in B-flat minor, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35053)
____ Prelude no. 5 in G major, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35057)
____ Prelude no. 6 in F minor, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35054)
____ Prelude no. 7 in F minor, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35056)
____ Prelude no. 8 in A minor, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35055)
____ Prelude no. 9 in A major, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35068)
____ Prelude no. 12 in G-sharp minor, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35065)
____ Prelude no 13 in D-flat major, op. 32. Bar over bar format. (BRM35073)
Ravel, Maurice. La Valse. Originally for orchestra. Arranged for piano in bar over bar format. (BRM17987)
Royal Conservatory of Music. Celebration Series Perspectives: Etudes 3. Bar over bar format. (BRT38043)
____ Celebration Series Perspectives: Etudes 4. Bar over bar format. (BRT38046)
____ Celebration Series Perspectives: Etudes 5. Bar over bar format. (BRT38051)
____ Celebration Series Perspectives: Piano Repertoire 3. Bar over bar format. (BRT38042)
____ Celebration Series Perspectives: Piano Repertoire 4. Bar over bar format. (BRT38045)
____ Celebration Series Perspectives: Piano Repertoire 5. Bar over bar format. (BRT38050)
____ Celebration Series Perspectives: Piano Repertoire 6. Bar over bar format. (BRT38053)
Violin
Moszkowski, Moritz. Suite in G minor. For two violins and piano in single line and bar over bar format. (BRM38048)
Mozart, W.A. Sonaten für Violine und Klavier: Nr. 6 in G-dur. Paragraph format. (BRM26377)
Paganini, Nicolò. Concerto no. 1 in D major. Arranged for violin and piano in single line and bar over bar format. (BRM20541)
Vocal
Cofone, J. F. Charles. Favorite Christmas Carols. Voice line with piano accompaniment and guitar chords. Line by line and bar over bar format. (BRM29003)
Rodeheaver, Ruthella. Collection of Christmas Carols. Taken from “Christmas Customs and Carols.” Words only in English contracted braille. (BRM30471)
Wind Instruments
Bennett, David. Deepwood. For bass clarinet and piano. Single line and bar over bar format. (BRM38044)