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Posted by: Katie Rodda
This blog post highlights some of the pieces in the NLS Music collection inspired by the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, who was born on this day in 1776.
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Posted by: Katie Rodda
This blog is a brief look at some of Benjamin Britten's compositions and relevant materials from the NLS Music Section.
Posted in: Audio, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Choral, Classical Music, Large Print, Large Print Music, Libretto, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, Performing music, Talking Books, Vocal music, World War I, World War II
Posted by: Lindsay Conway
This is the second half of a two-part post on Nashville’s musical history and related books in the NLS Music Collection. Read the first part here: Athens of the South: Nashville’s Musical Legacy, Part 1. Nashville’s most famous music venue, the Ryman Auditorium, was completed in 1892 and was originally a church called the Union …
Posted in: American Composers, Art Songs, Audio, Band, Blues, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Catalogs, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Large Print, Large Print Music, Libretto, March, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, Nashville, NLS Music Section, Orchestra, Performing music, Piano, Piano Music, Recordings, Talking Books, Uncategorized, Vocal music, Women in Music
Posted by: Lindsay Conway
Here in the Music Section of the National Library Service we are counting down the days until the National Conference of Librarians Serving Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals begins next month in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee! As I mentioned in my last article, I’ve been taking the opportunity to learn about the musical history of …
Posted in: American Composers, Art Songs, Band, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Catalogs, Choral, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Large Print, Large Print Music, Libretto, March, Music History and Appreciation, Nashville, NLS Music Section, Talking Books, Vocal music
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
When I was in grade school, our chorus teacher let us hear a record called What Is Jazz (DBM00704), where tone color, blue notes, syncopation, and other aspects of jazz were described by a man named Leonard Bernstein (I assumed that he was a jazz piano player). By sixth grade I was listening to classical music …
Posted in: American Composers, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Broadway, Choral, Classical Music, Jazz, Leonard Bernstein, Libretto, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Orchestra
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
“Oh, no—opera!” I thought as the recording of Amahl and the Night Visitors started. I was perhaps a fourth grader at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children in Pittsburgh then, hearing this one-act opera for the first time. Although I could not always understand the words, I had to admit that the mother’s operatic …
Posted in: American Composers, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Classical Music, Libretto, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, Vocal music
Posted by: Katie Rodda
This blog takes a look at composers who were affected by World War I and the music that they composed.
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Posted by: Gilbert Busch
When I was a teenager, I began learning about classical music by listening to radio programs in the evening. Often the shows would begin with an overture or “light classic”, such as the Light Cavalry Overture (which our school band played), or the William Tell Overture (the “Lone Ranger” to me). There was also a …
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Posted by: Katie Rodda
The following is a guest blog post from the new section head of the NLS Music Section, Juliette Appold. Have you ever thought about listing classical and contemporary composers by their last names from A to Z? How about identifying American composers from A to Z? And how about filling the alphabet with names of …
Posted in: American Composers, Audio, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Classical Music, Libretto, Music Composition, NLS Music Section, Performing music, Talking Books