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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