[musictlk] Music theory books in braille and fun for sighted kids

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
You're looking for:
An Introduction to Music for the Blind Student
from Dancing Dots!
I'm not sure how advanced you want, but it brings up through the major and 
minor scales, chords, time signatures and a whole lot of other stuff. It is 
not advanced, but I don't think that there are any fun advanced theory books 
although the community children music schools may know.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Music Library
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:26 AM
To: 'musictlk at nfbnet.org'
Subject: [musictlk] Music theory books in braille and fun for sighted kids

Hello!
I'm a Librarian at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) 
where we have a large collection of sheet music written in the Braille music 
code. Several users of this collection are blind piano teachers, who often 
teach sighted students and use braille transcriptions of teaching books, 
such as the Piano Adventures series by Faber & Faber.  I am contacting you 
to ask if you know of any theory books that are enjoyable for kids to use, 
e.g. include illustrations, but have enough text in them that they could be 
understood only by the text, including music notes? We find that the 2nd 
edition of the Piano Adventures Theory book is extremely challenging for 
braille because of the difficulty of describing some of the visual 
activities. I would really appreciate knowing about any other theory books 
that are fun yet educational.

Thank you in advance for any title suggestions you could provide. I look 
forward to hearing from you.

Rachel Breau
Content and Access Librarian
CNIB Library


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