Talk:Braille music

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Just wanted to let folks know in case anyone's interested; I've started a blind musicians page which discusses, among other things, Braille music and resources available for blind musicians. If someone with more knowledge than me wanted to check my discussion out and make some corrections, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! NoahB 18:12, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reading and playing
How does one read Braille music using one hand, while playing an instrument that requires the use of two hands (which most of them do)? Are they to read the music, memorize it, then play? It would be the equivalent of trying to translate Braille into sign language at the same time. --Birdhombre 19:26, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you read one hand at a time and generally memorize it quickly--either by playing & learning one hand at a time until each hand is learned that way, then putting them together, or just by reading & mentally learning each part them putting the two hands together mentally.

People who use Braille music a lot tend to be quick memorizers--not necessarily that they are born that way, but that very nature of reading then playing Braille music requires a lot of quick learning of small segments (a few measures or a phrase) and when you do that routinely you learn to just memorize those small bits very readily. Practice makes perfect, so to speak! Bhugh 04:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

regarding this sentence
"Visually impaired musicians who become highly proficient performers without ever learning to read music have the same difficulties and disadvantages as sighted musicians in the same situation. In either case, the illiterate musician is completely dependent upon others for learning new music or new parts. And it is very difficult for the advanced musician to have the patience to spend months or years re-visiting the rudiments of music in order to learn to read and write what can already be performed with ease."

That happens when you haven't quite developped your auditory skills. Besides, braille music, especially that designed for keyboard instruments is not always the easiest method for learning songs. For instance, i have been playing piano for several years and I often find it much more time consumming to read music than to get music by ear alone. You can also experiment with most theories that way. In any case, just because one does not read music is not a reason for being "illiterate." The idea that one is musically illiterate doesn't stem from the fact one indeed does not read music but to be illiterate can be put rather more as being unable to hear something then transcribe it or process it in order for it to become playable. Ear training is a valuable resource for visually impaired musicians. Plus, there are no sources on this article either. Braille music also has a disadvantage and it is that it changes to fit each notation. There is braille music for different instruments: Organ/keyboard, wind, vocal. This can be found in the braille music code 1997 at www.brl.org/music/index.html

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Braille music example not accessible
A task for all with sight: it would be very good if the chart of examples of Braille music was itself accessible so that people without vision who want to learn Braille music could read the chart. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 00:29, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I am not very knowledgable about music theory, Braille or accessibility. But when I came to this article my first thought was that an image with lots of data without even any description whatsoever is bad for accessibility, especially on a page that deals with just that, accessibility. Then I saw your comment.
 * I have tried my best to transcribe the first part of the image (about a third of the content) into tables and moved them to the appropriate subsections. This is my first time using Braille and accessible wiki tables. Please, advise me of any mistakes or correct them yourselves. The data in the image is quite condense, so I have split it into several tables and written out all abbreviations. The following tables have been added this far: Notes, Octave marks, Fingering marks and Interval marks.
 * Unless someone else deals with the rest of the image, I will transcribe that part later, I will need to study some music theory first, though, so that I am able to split it up correctly. It would be very good if someone with the knowledge could go through the contents of both the text and tables. —kess (talk) 22:37, 4 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Tableified some more, the following tables have been added: Accidentals, Dynamic/Tempo and Articulation. The following is a list of the examples in the image not yet encoded as text:
 * 4 meas. rest
 * Double bar
 * Dot
 * Music hyphen
 * Triplet
 * Repeat sign
 * Slur
 * Tie
 * Chord tie
 * Bracket slur (beginning)
 * Bracket slur (end)
 * Word apostrophe
 * Fermata on note
 * Fermata between notes
 * Fermata over a bar line
 * Measure in-accord
 * Part-measure in-accord
 * Measure division sign
 * —kess (talk) 11:56, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you @Kess!