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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
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
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
A brief look at composer Frederic Ayres and some compositions available from the NLS Music Section.
Posted in: American Composers, Art Songs, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Braille Music Transcribers, Classical Music, Large Print Music, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Piano, Piano Music, Vocal music
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
It’s the last week of September, and time to list some recent braille music acquisitions. You may call to request hard copies, or you may download them from the BARD site. Sorry, no recordings this week, but we hope there will be some very soon. Cello Brahms, Johannes. Sonata No. 1, Op. 38 (BRM07814) Choral …
Posted in: Art Songs, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Braille Music Digitization, Choral, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Music Instruction, New Acquisitions, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Organ, Piano, Piano Music, Popular Music Lead Sheets, Vocal music
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
Read this blog and discover new materials, recorded and braille, now available from the NLS Music Section. Audio Materials All of the following are productions of Bill Brown. Banjo American Pie. Teaches this Don McLean song without the use of music notation. (DBM03915) Piano Bless the Broken Road. Teaches how to play “Bless the Broken …
Posted in: Art Songs, Audio, Banjo, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, Music Instruction, New Acquisitions, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Orchestra, Piano, Piano Music, Popular Music, Recordings, Talking Books, Vocal music
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 …
Posted in: Audio, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Large Print, Large Print Music, Libretto, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Organ, Piano, Piano Music, Vocal music
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
August 6 is the birthday of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, who lived from 1895 to 1963. While some composers’ names might stir a vague recollection of some concert I attended, Lecuona brings to mind an indelible childhood memory. It happened on a Monday afternoon when I was five or six years old. I was lying …
Posted in: Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Hispanic American History, Instrumental Music, NLS Music Section, Piano, Piano Music
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
Every year, 25 recordings are added to the LOC’s National Recording registry, recordings that are considered “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” The purpose of this blog is not to list all 25 of them, but to highlight those where the song is part of the NLS Music collection. Most of these items may be downloaded …
Posted in: Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Jazz, Music History and Appreciation, Piano, Piano Music, Popular Music, Recordings
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
This blog is about being surprised, not by a new work, but by an old one I considered too familiar, one by a composer whose birthday was on March 4. It happened that a colleague sent me a score, and asked me to check something in it. I opened the file. There at the top …
Posted in: Braille Music, Music History and Appreciation, Piano Music, Vivaldi