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Posted by: Amanda Smith
When I was an undergraduate student studying music, I became very interested in music from India. Though I did not know how to play a plucked instrument very well, I enjoyed the sound of the sitar. And, whenever I heard someone playing a set of small hand drums called the tabla, I thought about the …
Posted in: Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Music History and Appreciation, World Music
Posted by: Amanda Smith
Over the past month, the Music Section has added more than 45 new braille, audio, and large-print music titles by roughly twenty-five different composers to its collection. Together, just three composers, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Schumann, wrote compositions that comprise nearly a quarter of the total amount of those additions. I thought it a good …
Posted in: Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Large Print Music, New Acquisitions
Posted by: Amanda Smith
This past month the Music Section made available for download on BARD three contemporary, popular, and jazz titles. First, a braille transcription of Glee Songbook: Easy Piano. This book contains a collection of songs from the popular TV show Glee‘s first season arranged for easy–or beginner–piano. Examples include: Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon, “Can’t Fight This Feeling;” …
Posted in: Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Jazz, New Acquisitions, Popular Music
Posted by: Amanda Smith
The work of digitizing the Music Section‘s braille music scores continues unabated. Details of the Section’s scanners and software were discussed in a previous post. Since then, the German scanner has served as the driving resource for digitizing braille music items. The digital copies of scores and parts are backed up and archived, serving as …
Posted in: Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Technology, NLS Music Section