[musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

[Julie C. Vogt]

I have a quick ear.  Except for really complicated parts, I can usually hear a piece and know it.  When I was 21 and went to MacPhail College of Music (which is no more) I could learn an unfamiliar sonata movement in about two hours and play it through.

I learned to read Braille music and kept up with it till I was at MacPhail.  There wasn't much Braille music for what I wanted and was required to learn.  I could learn so much faster on tape, and they kept changing things about the Braille music code so  that I became discouraged with the Braille and left it.  I've never had a need to use Braille music since then.



"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul," American Humorist Mark Twain

"An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Immediate Past President, National Federation of the Blind

"A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." Proverbs 18 19. KJV

"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed up in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison.

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"Faith is the ability to see God in the dark.," (unknown)

"No one can do it for us but us," Rev. Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, 1976.

"With proper training, development, and opportunity, blindness can be reduced to the level of a physical nuisance or characteristic," the Late Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Past President, National Federation of the Blind.

Julie Vogt or jcvogt at pressenter.com