[musictlk] sight-reading

[Ignasi Cambra]

Hello,
Sight reading is possible if you are singing, but if you are playing an instrument it's obviously impossible because you need your hands. If you are a pianist, for example, you will have to memorize the music and then play it. Depending on how experienced you are etc you can memorize long scores in reasonable amounts of time. If you basically have the music in your head, going to the piano and trying to play through it is pretty much like sight reading.
Good luck!

IC
On Apr 16, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Amy Billman wrote:

> 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.
> "We are all a little weird, and life's a little weird, and when we find
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> fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." -Dr. Seuss
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> 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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