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Posted by: Donna Koh
As many of you know, the NLS Music Section is a specialized music library serving blind and print-impaired patrons. This week’s blog post will reveal some of the many interesting things our music reader service librarians do. One of the most important tasks we do in the Music Section is reference service. We receive diverse …
Posted in: Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Braille Music Digitization, Catalogs
Posted by: Katie Rodda
This is a guest post from Hannah Noel, a West Coast native currently living in North Carolina. She is a recent graduate of UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, where she earned her MSLS and focused her studies on archival work in an arts and museum-specific context. She is interning at NLS at the …
Posted in: American Composers, Art Songs, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Braille Music Digitization, Braille Music Transcribers, Braille Technology, Broadway, Catalogs, Choral, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Music Instruction
Posted by: Lindsay Conway
Welcome to a new installment of the NLS Music Section’s journey through the alphabet to learn about musicians and composers who were blind or visually impaired. In part 2 of the letter G, we'll meet Edwin Grasse and introduce our new violin scores catalog.
Posted in: American Composers, Blind Musicians, Braille Music, Catalogs, Classical Music, Helen Keller, Instrumental Music, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, Violin music
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, Opera, 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, Opera, Spirituals, Talking Books, Vocal music