[MusicTlk] Sources for Braille music scores

[Ella Yu]

Hi Jennifer, If you know how to convert MusicXML files to braille, I highly
recommend looking for stuff on a website called musescore.com.
Musescore.com is a sheet music sharing site for users of the free, open
source and ultra popular music notation software MuseScore, and there is
tons and tons of user-uploaded material there. Of course, not everything is
available, and the quality of the material varies because it is
user-created, but I have found it to be a very useful resource. You can
download the music in a variety of formats there, including MuseScore
native format (.mscz), MusicXML, PDF, MP3, and MIDI. You do need an account
to download stuff, but the paid subscription is only necessary for non
public domain music, and anything by Mozart is of course public domain. I
found the whole Mozart Sonata 16 K545 on musescore.com for you:
https://musescore.com/user/19710/sets/77620

Finding braille music is not easy, and tracking down scores for things can
be a pain sometimes. I'm immensely grateful for everything that has already
been transcribed, but there is a ton more music that isn't accessible to us
yet. This means you do need to be able to go through multiple sources to
find stuff, and if something doesn't exist in braille or another accessible
format, someone will need to do some transcribing for you. Hope this helps.

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 9:01 AM Jennifer Bose via MusicTlk <
musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Thanks so much for sharing this other resource. Whether or not I find
> the sonata, I'm glad to know about it.
>
> Jen
>
> On 10/21/23, Dana Ibrahim <Dana.mohsen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Jennifer,
> > Please use this website:
> > www.brailleorch.org<http://www.brailleorch.org>
> > This is a website that has a catalog of braille music scores for free.
> You
> > may or may not find your sonata there, but the catalog is always being
> > updated.
> > Hope that helps,
> > Dana
> > ________________________________
> > From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> on behalf of Jennifer Bose
> via
> > MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2023 3:41:55 PM
> > To: musictlk at nfbnet.org <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Jennifer Bose <jen10514 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [MusicTlk] Sources for Braille music scores
> >
> > Hello, musicians. I'm taking piano lessons and learning Mozart's
> > Sonata XVI. The BARD collection only appears to have a digital
> > downloadable Braille file of the first movement, not the other two.
> > I'd like to learn this both by ear and with the score. What do I do?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Jen
> >
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