[musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

[Mike Freeman]

I believe that braille music is vitally important to anyone aspiring to be a classical musician. the reason is simple: although learning by ear is an extremely useful skill and is often necessary for choral music, band music and other quick-study items that are either not available or cannot be obtained in time to be useful, learning by ear means that one is learning someone else's interpretation of the music rather than seeing what markings the composer or music editor wrote and crafting one's own interpretation. If necessary, one can teach someone to qead braille music to you and you can write your own braille copy from the dictation.

That said, learning to play by ear is virtually a necessity in jazz and rock music venues.

So learning guitar riffs by ear is a good idea and many a sighted musician does the same thing, if one is to play, say, the preludes of Hector Villalobos or 
enriquez's "Concierto del Sur", braille music is a must.

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie C. Vogt" <jcvogt at pressenter.com>
To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Sunday, Dec 28, 2008 7:12:05
Subject: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Julie Vogt or jcvogt at pressenter.com 
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