August 18, 2022
Posted by: Lindsay Conway
Did you know that systems of tactile music notation were created in the United States in the 19th century, long before braille music became the standard? Today, we will learn about two of these systems, both of which were developed at the New York Institute for the Blind.
Posted in: American Braille , American Printing House for the Blind , Blind Musicians , Blind Teachers , Braille , Braille History , Braille Music , Louis Braille , Music Education , Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
June 23, 2022
Posted by: Brian McCurdy
For this week's NLS Music Notes Blog post, our Braille Music Specialist Timothy Jones discusses Robert Schumann and one of his sets of Character Pieces for piano, "Scenes from Childhood."
Posted in: American Printing House for the Blind , Arias , Art Songs , Braille , Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD , Braille Music , Circulation , Classical Music , Free Braille Music Scores , Guest Post , Instrumental Music , Library of Congress , Lieder , Louis Braille , Marrakesh Treaty , Music and Art , Music Composition , Music History and Appreciation , Music Instruction , Musical instruments , NLS Music Section , NLS Online Catalog , Performing music , Piano , Piano Instruction , Piano Music , Song settings , Uncategorized , Virtuosic Piano Music , Voyager Catalog
June 24, 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
March 1, 2019
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
Read about the braille music scores and books that we've added to BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) during the past month!
Posted in: American Printing House for the Blind , Braille , Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD , Braille Music , Braille Music Digitization , Classical Music , Harp , Instrumental Music , March , New Acquisitions , Piano , Piano Music , Uncategorized , Violin music
January 31, 2019
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
This post is an overview of the braille music books added to BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) over the past month.
Posted in: American Composers , American Printing House for the Blind , Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD , Braille Music , Braille Music Digitization , Braille Music Transcribers , Choral , Classical Music , Golden-Chord , Instrumental Music , New Acquisitions , NLS Music Section , NLS Online Catalog , Performing music , Piano , Piano Music , Popular Music , Rhythm & Blues (R&B) , Soul Music , Violin music , Vocal music
June 18, 2015
Posted by: John Hanson
In 1863, the Imperial Institute for the Young Blind in Paris published a “Collection of Organ Pieces” —“for the special use of students at the Institute.” These pieces were all composed by professors of music at the Institute, all of whom had been students there also. They are Gabriel Gauthier, Marius Gueit, Victor Paul, and …
Posted in: American Printing House for the Blind , Blind Musicians , Braille , Braille Music , Institut national des jeunes aveugles , Louis Braille
