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Judith Bevans embossed music collection

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Creator:

Judith Bevans

Date Range:

1970, undated

Call Number:

AG119

Abstract:

Judith Bevans was a Music Therapist and teacher at the Lower School at the Perkins School for the Blind from 1963-1994. The collection consists of music sheets in many formats including Braille, embossed plastic, embossed metal, and embossed paper. The collection includes experimental materials that were also used in Perkins music classes. Many of the items are oversized. The collection also includes. An Approach to Instruction in Braille Music Notation Utilizing Principles of Meinolf Neuhauser’s “Magic Notation” and Carl Orff’s “Schulwerk” written by Bevans. 

Extent:

2 linear feet, 1 oversize box

Language:

English

Processed by:

Maxine Brown, 2013

Biographical/Historical notes:

Judith E. Bevans worked at Perkins School for the Blind form 1963-1994 in the Music Department at the Lower School. She received a B. S. in Music from the University of Rochester, a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and a Master of Music in Performance of Early Music from the New England Conservatory of Music. Bevans was a certified Music Therapist from the Certification Board for Music Therapists. She worked in the Peace Corps in Iran from 1970-1972.

Sources of information:

Author’s bio found in ebook at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign website

Author’s 30 year honoring in 1990-1996 Lantern (Internet Archive) Fall 1994 pg 22

Author’s trip to Iran in 1963-1970 Lantern (Internet Archive), Summer 1970, pg 23  

Restrictions:

None

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Perkins School for the Blind, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Credit line/Citation:

AG119 Judith Bevans Embossed Music Collection. Perkins School for the Blind Archives, Watertown, MA.

Scope/Contents:

The Judith Bevans Embossed Music Collection contains 2 hymn books, 12 plastic embossed music sheets, 3 embossed music examples, embossed rhythmic examples, and 2 embossed musical scales. 

Arrangement:

1 box, 10 folders

AG124 Bettye Krolick Collection. Perkins School for the Blind Archives, Watertown, MA.

Container List:

  • B1:F1: Printed papers including An Approach to Instruction in Braille Music Notation Utilizing Principles of Meinolf Neuhauser’s “Magic Notation” and Carl Orff’s “Schulwerk” by Judith Bevans, 1970, undated
  • B1:F2: Braille music, undated 
  • B1:F3: Half-beat embossed scales, undated
  • B1:F4: Embossed rhythmic exercises, undated 
  • B1:F5: Whole-beat embossed scales, undated
  • B1:F6: Plastic photo-etched embossed music posters, undated
  • B1:F7: Hymn books, undated
  • B1:F8: Bobby Shafto embossed music, undated
  • B1:F9: Blow, Boys, Blow embossed music, undated
  • B1:F10: 1, 2 Tie My Shoe and other embossed music, undated

Provenance:

Unknown

Subject headings:

  • Perkins School for the Blind.
  • Perkins School for the Blind–History.
  • Blind–Education
  • Music–Instruction and study
  • Teachers of people who are blind
  • Braille music notation

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