[musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

[Elizabeth Slaughter]

I believe one thing that tired me also, was the changes in braille music
notation. Also, the time it takes to learn, one hand at a time, because,
of course, we cannot sight read.

I pick up on music well also, and rely on recordings as well, especially
for sacred music.

Most congregations I play for would not lend themselves for blind
musicians finding the music (never available anyway), waiting for it to
arrive, then, for me to learn it. Some songs are so spontaneously
presented, one must play it impromptu, or be out of the running
altogether.



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On Behalf Of Julie C. Vogt
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:33 AM
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Subject: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille


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.

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
  
"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 



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