[musictlk] sight-reading

[Amy Billman]

Um... Hand reading? No. LOL :-)
Honestly it's still technically sight reading even if you're not using sight
to perform the task.
And yes, it is very much possible to do so using Braille music. As a vocal
performance major, I did it a lot for auditions or simply to learn a piece
of music.
Simply put, all you're doing is reading the music in Braille, and if you're
sight singing, you're either humming the melody you just read, playing it on
another instrument, or singing the words along with the melody (if there are
any,) But absolutely it's totally possible. Braille, print, sight or none,
the same skills apply: to be able to look at a piece of music you've never
seen before, and determine the notes.
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-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of humberto
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 4:13 PM
To: musictlk at nfbNet.org
Subject: [musictlk] sight-reading

Hello listers:
I'm here again with yet another question. Is it possible for a 
blind musician to sight-read music? If so, how is it done? Is it 
possible to use Braille music for sight-reading or what are other 
techniques or ways to work around the sight-reading? Or yet more 
applicable, hand-reading, since we don't use sight to read? What 
is one, if any, equivalence that exists for blind people to 
sight-read? I will be willing to discuss this issue more with 
this list. Any thoughts, comments, concerns, questions, 
resources, or ideas on this matter?

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