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Posted by: Lindsay Conway
Want to sing? Learn about the audio lessons and courses for beginning singers that the NLS Music Section offers!
Posted in: Audio, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Music Education, Music Instruction, Performing music, Uncategorized, Vocal music
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
NLS Music Section announces recent BARD additions from October-November, 2018.
Posted in: Arnold Schoenberg, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Choral, Classical Music, Guitar instruction, Music Education, New Acquisitions, Piano, Popular Music, Uncategorized
Posted by: Donna Koh
Continued from last week. Part 2 My second day at the school, which was a Saturday, was spent observing private lessons and group classes. Saturday at the school is mostly reserved for the youth programs. I was eager to attend as many lessons as possible and what I saw was fascinating and memorable. I attended …
Posted in: Blind Musicians, Blind Teachers, Braille Technology, Choral, Music Education, Music Instruction, teachers, Teaching Students with Visual Impairments, Uncategorized
![(ca. 1890) Peasants dancing, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary. , ca. 1890. [Between and Ca. 1900] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002710708/.](https://blogs.loc.gov/nls-music-notes/files/2018/09/Peasants-dancing-detail.png)
Posted by: Juliette Appold
Béla Bartók was a seminal 20th-century composer and musicologist. Born in Hungary on March 25, 1881, he lived through World War I and experienced the beginnings of World War II, before immigrating with his second wife to the United States in 1940. He died in New York on September 26, 1945. What makes Bartók‘s works …
Posted in: Braille Music, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, Uncategorized
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
The NLS Music Section mourns the loss of Aretha Franklin, a giant in popular and gospel music. Starting with her gospel singing in her father’s church, Ms. Franklin established an unforgettable presence with a powerful delivery and message about spirituality and the ups and downs of love. She was from Detroit, and while Motown was …
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Posted by: Lindsay Conway
“Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain’t no place I’d rather be”–This is the song that we have been singing for the past several weeks here in the Music Section of the National Library Service (along with Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter in their song “Tennessee Jed”). The NLS national conference in Nashville has now come and gone, …
Posted in: American Composers, Audio, Banjo, Blind Musicians, Bluegrass, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Folk Music, Grateful Dead, Jug band music, Music History and Appreciation, Nashville, Popular Music, Rock n' Roll, Uncategorized
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
Hard Times Come Again No More! American Composers, Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) I am happy that we are focusing on American composers as a blog cycle; there are always new discoveries and new things to learn about our unique country’s history. And sometimes, if you want to understand an atmosphere of a specific era, look …
Posted in: American Composers, Folk Music, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation
Posted by: Juliette Appold
Welcome to the newest additions of music materials on BARD. Audio Materials Amazing Grace. For late beginner. Bill Brown teaches how to play the late beginner version of “Amazing Grace” on the piano without the use of music notation. (DBM03901) Chattanooga Choo Choo. Bill Brown teaches how to play the Glenn Miller Orchestra’s 1940s classic …
Posted in: Audio, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Instrumental Music, Music Instruction, Piano, Uncategorized
Posted by: Donna Koh
At NLS, we have an unoccupied cubicle with an electric piano and a small couch in the corridor leading to the music section. Shortly after the completion of the building renovations early this year, a sign saying “Piano Lounge” appeared on the outside wall of this cubicle. Now and then, people would stop in to …
Posted in: Family music making, NLS Music Section, Outreach, Performing music, Uncategorized