[nabs-l] music majors

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello Jessica:

     I suggest you check out the offerings from Dancing Dots. If memory 
serves, their website is:
www.dancingdots.com

They have books to help people learn braille music. I have a minor in music 
and also have perfect pitch. I could not have gotten through some of the 
courses without knowing how to read braille music. I do admit however that 
braille music is an odd system. For those of you who don't know; braille
music does not use a staff. The notes are specified using dots 1, 2, 4 and 
5. The notes are based on the C major scale. In braille music, the notes c, 
d, e, f, g, a and b are represented with the letters d, e, f, g, h, i and j. 
The time values are represented with dots 3 and 6. Whole notes have both 
dots, half notes have dot 3, quarter notes have dot 6 and eighth notes have 
no dots below the letter. As a result C a whole note looks like y and D a 
whole note looks like Z. Intervals are reckoned up in the left hand and down 
for the right hand for keyboard music. As a result, a C major chord for the 
left hand looks different from the same chord for the right hand. Awkward 
this system may be, but a serious musician needs to know it.

Regards,

robert Jaquiss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jessica Watson" <netgirl at samobile.net>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:07 AM
Subject: [nabs-l] music majors


> Hi everyone.  Hope everyone is doing well.  If anyone on this list is a
> music major, please email me off-list.  My goal is to get an associates
> degree in music then transfer to a bachelors degree program in either
> music or music education.  However, I do not know how to read Braille
> music, but I have perfect pitch so identifying notes is not going to be an
> issue.  I feel like learning Braille music is going to be very hard unless
> I work individually with someone.  Please help!
>
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