[musictlk] {Disarmed} Some Videos on Braille Music

Brandon Keith Biggs brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
Sun Oct 6 23:25:51 UTC 2013


Hello,
I got this email from the Braille Music Chat email list. I'm not sure 
quite what the kickstarter is, but the videos in the message would be 
great to send to people who don't quite understand Braille Music.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs

From: Kickstarter <no-reply at kickstarter.com>

Date: 3 October 2013 22:52

Subject: Project Update #7: Open Well-Tempered Clavier - Ba©h to Bach by 
Robert Douglass

Project Update #7: Reading music with Braille

Posted by Robert Douglass

You may be wondering what it is like to read music using braille. 
Fortunately, there are a few good videos on the topic. Here is David 
Crohan giving a short demonstration of sight-reading using a braille score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGWfi_DM5XA

I spoke to David (he was very supportive of the Open Well-Tempered 
Clavier, and our efforts to make more braille scores), and he absolutely 
confirmed the need for more scores to be available. He's currently 
learning a Beethoven Sonata from a score that is over 100 years old. I 
later found out that in 2009 there were only 18,000 titles available as 
braille in the USA, and only 1,000 of them were available as digital 
downloads. Sheetmusicplus.com has over 800,000 titles, so that means 
that not even 1% of the music available to sighted people is available 
to the blind.

Here is pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii as a child learning a score from braille.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_AQSqhJ6A&feature=youtu.be&t=3m33s

He has also confirmed the severe lack of scores, stating "I do not know 
how much Braille music has been published, but I know it is not much." 
Here is Nobuyuki later, winning the Van Cliburn competition. Clearly, it 
is worth investing in talented musicians, even if they're blind, because 
they are fully capable of achieving the highest levels, and moving us 
profoundly with their performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuEUWQCJSA

If you're wondering how braille music works, here's a good introduction 
to the basic principles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQjn1xUaYQs

And, finally, here's something a bit more complex (and familiar!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUN_mZiPNj4


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