[musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

Antonio Quatraro a.quatraro at fol.it
Thu Jan 1 17:53:39 UTC 2009


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ramy Moustafa" <moshtaqlealganna at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille


> 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
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> From: <billlist1 at comcast.net>
> To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
> 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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