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Braille Music: Let’s Tackle the Basics! (Extra 22)

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Topics covered in this session:

  • Debunking some myths
  • Notes and note values - quavers, crotchets, minims, semibreves and dotted notes
  • Sharp, flat and natural signs
  • Time signatures and their placement - 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, common time, 6/8, 9/8
  • Key signatures and their placement - D major (2 sharps), A major (3 sharps), B major (5 sharps) and F sharp major (6 sharps)

    • Resources of interest:

    • RNIB Music Advisory Service
    • Braille Music for Beginners for the Piano by Joan Partridge: available from RNIB, product code 25282902 (braille) or 25282903 (print)
    • A Course in Braille Music by Maeve Smith
    • Focus on Braille Music by Lisette Wesseling, published by Musicians in Focus Ltd and available from Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
    • Who's Afraid of Braille Music? by Richard Taesch and William R. McCann, available from Dancing Dots
    • Braille Music in a Digital Age, by Roger Firman and Clare Gailans, published by the International Council on English Braille at its Seventh General Assembly (2020):
      • Microsoft Word
      • BRF
      • Video presentation by Roger Firman and James Bowden on Youtube
      • Hadley School for the Blind braille music course (no longer available)
      • ICEB Braille Music page
      • New International Manual of Braille Music Notation
      • BrailleOrch (in English)
      • Braille Music Editor

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