We wish you a wonderful Holiday Season with our latest additions to BARD (Braille Audio Reading Download).
Enjoy reading about music history and celebrate the richness of musical cultures captured in the Polish, Romanian, or Scottish violin duets. If singing is your passion, check out the songs written by Native American composers. Piano players may want to explore Bach’s “English Suites” or Schumann’s “Humoresque.”
You can download the materials below through BARD. You can also 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].
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Audiobooks
Piano Instructional
Brown, Bill. Prelude No. 5 in D Major for piano from “The Well Tempered Clavier” by J. S. Bach, BWV 850. Late intermediate lesson. (DBM04733)
Braille Books
Libretti
Campbell, Mark. Silent Night. An Opera in Two Acts. Libretto by Mark Campbell to music by Kevin Puts. English contracted braille. German and French words with English translations. (BRM38066)
Music Appreciation and History
Royal Conservatory of Music. History 3. 19th Century to Present. 2013 edition. (BRT38075)
Seaton, Douglass. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. Fourth edition. (BRM38086)
Music Theory
Royal Conservatory of Music. Basic Rudiments. The Royal Conservatory Official Examination Papers. 2013 edition. (BRT38072)
____ Intermediate Rudiments. The Royal Conservatory Official Examination Papers. 2013 edition. (BRT38073)
____ Advanced Rudiments. The Royal Conservatory Official Examination Papers. 2013 edition. (BRT38074)
Braille Scores
Flute
Edmund-Davies, Paul. The Flautist’s Collection. Book 3. Single line format. (BRM29774)
Organ
Benoît, Paul. Fifty Elevations for Organ on Modal Themes. Bar over bar format. (BRM31045)
Hindemith, Paul. Sonate II, Orgel (1937). Bar over bar format. (BRM24373)
Krenek, Ernst. Sonata Op. 92. Bar over bar format. (BRM25096)
Langlais, Jean. Suite française pour grand orgue. Bar over bar format. (BRM24772)
Schoenberg, Arnold. Variations on a Recitative, op. 40. Bar over bar format. (BRM24723)
Piano
Bach, Johann Sebastian. English Suite no. 4 in F Major, BWV 809. Urtext Edition. Bar over bar format. (BRT38082)
____ English Suite no. 5 in E minor, BWV 810. Bar by bar format. (BRM02747)
____ English Suite no. 5 in E minor, BWV 810. Urtext Edition. Bar over bar format. (BRT38083)
____ English Suite no. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811. Bar over bar format. (BRM15421)
____ English Suite no. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811. Urtext Edition. Bar over bar format. (BRT38084)
Schumann, Robert. Humoreske, Op. 20. Bar by bar format. (BRM23841)
Piano Instruction
Diamond, David. Alone at the Piano. Book 1. Introductory Contemporary Pieces for the Early Grades. Bar over bar format. (BRM31052)
____ Alone at the Piano. Book 3. Pieces for Beginners for Piano. Bar over bar format. (BRM31055)
Violin Duets
Greenblatt, Deborah (Arranger). Czech Fiddle Tunes for Two Violins. Single line format. (BRM38078)
____ Polish Fiddle Tunes for Two Violins. Single line format. (BRM38079)
____ Ragtime Fiddle Tunes for Two Violins. Single line format. (BRM38085)
____ Romanian Fiddle Tunes for Two Violins. Single line format. (BRM38080)
____ Scottish Fiddle Tunes for Two Violins. Single line format. (BRM38081)
Violin Instructional
Ross, Julian. Connecting Some Dots. Two-Octave Scales, Arpeggios, and Melodic Studies in All Major and Minor Keys for the violin. Single line format. (BRM38077)
Royal Conservatory of Music. Violin Technique. Introductory, 4. Line by line format. (BRT38076)
Voice
Royal Conservatory of Music. Voice Repertoire, 3. Voice part only. Line by line format. (BRT38068)
____ Voice Repertoire, 4. Voice part only. Line by line format. (BRT38069)
____ Voice Repertoire, 5. Voice part only. Line by line format. (BRT38070)
____ Voice Repertoire, 6. Voice part only. Line by line format. (BRT38071)
Voice – Choral
Duffy, John J. Invocation. For mixed chorus (SATB). Line by line format. (BRM38067)
Handel, George Frideric. Glory to God, from “The Messiah.” Chorus parts only. Section by section format. (BRM05214)
Voice – Various
Britten, Benjamin. A Ceremony of Carols. Cantata for Treble Voices and Harp, op. 28. Open score format. (BRM30503)
The New Anthology of American Songs. 25 Songs by Native American Composers. For voice and piano. Line by line and bar over bar format. (BRM25928)