[musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

Ramy Moustafa moshtaqlealganna at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 14:12:05 UTC 2008


can we make someone record the notes for us, as mp3 file, then learn the 
notes throught it, or  by  translating them to braille then read them? or, 
what is the best d way to do this?

Thanks
Cheers
Ramy Moustafa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <billlist1 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille


> Dear All,
>
> As blind musicians, we must use all available tools to accomplish our 
> performance goals.  Knowing how to read braille music when it is available 
> is certainly an asset in many situations.  I have played a lot of jazz and 
> pop music and learned much of it by ear.  But I have also played my 
> trumpet in bands, orchestras and in church with organists and having 
> direct access to the score in braille has definitely given me more 
> confidence before and even during the performance.  Yes, we must memorize 
> our part.  But having a braille score to reference when a memory lapse 
> strikes during a concert is like having the proverbial net under the 
> tight-rope walker!  It would be virtually impossible to refernce an audio 
> recording of one's part at such times.
>
> And so I encourage anyone who wants to know exactly what the 
> composer/arranger has written down in the score to learn to read braille 
> music.  Idealy, braille readers who make music with sighted people who are 
> reading print music should have access to a braille music score which they 
> can read as well.  Of course, as others have noted here, in the "real 
> world", we don't always have the luxury of having a braille score to read. 
> That's where those other tools like using one's ear and asking sighted 
> helpers to make audio recordings of our parts make all the difference.
>
> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
> Bill McCann
> President
> Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology
> www.DancingDots.com
>
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: "Elizabeth Slaughter" <manutips at paulbunyan.net>
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Julie C. Vogt
>> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:33 AM
>> To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
>> 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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