Accession Number: 2016.6.1
Summary/Description: Gray-brown construction paper covers or end sheets; signatures held together by cords run down folds and twisted at top and bottom of spine; single sided embossing. Braille edition of a collection of singing exercises--the Solfège method teaches pitch and sight reading--originally published by Adolphe-Leopold Danhauser and added to by Leon LeMoine. This is a braille edition of the "nouvelle edition" with additional selections by Albert Lavignac that first appeared in print in Paris in 1910, published by Henry LeMoine & Company.
Author: Danhauser, Adolphe-Léopold (1835-1896)
History/Provenance: The Association Valentin Hauy was founded by Maurice de La Sizeranne (1857-1924) in 1889, a graduate and later music teacher at the Institut Nationale Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. One of its principal early functions was operating a braille lending library.
Credit Line: Gift of Mireille Duhen, 2016.6.
Publisher: Association Valentin Haüy
Publisher Place: Paris
Publish Date: 1913
Subjects: Music education Music for the blind and visually impaired Braille Braille music notation
Physical Description: 137 pages of braille; 10 x 6.5 x 1.75 inches
