[Perform-Talk] Look, braille music scores on IMSLP, seriously?

[Jason Castonguay]

Hi, Ella and everyone!

Wow! This is fantastic news! I am very glad to see this and thank you for updating us on it! I have very little experience with IMSLP, but have looked things up on the site before.


Best regards,


-Jason





> On Jan 12, 2024, at 22:42, Ella Yu via Perform-Talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> 
> So I was doing some random poking around and just discovered that starting
> in like what, I don’t know, 2023, IMSLP now accepts uploads of braille
> scores. It caught me by surprise. My first reaction was “what? seriously?
> really?” Anyway, this is a big win. Now that’s the way to get lots of
> braille scores out to blind musicians, since everyone can use IMSLP instead
> of relying on country/region-specific libraries for the blind, which are
> arguably much more difficult to access. So far, just over 300 scores on
> IMSLP have braille files, mostly uploaded by Haipeng Hu from the
> BrailleOrch project. Transcribers and librarians, take note. The folks at
> the DAISY music braille project, as well as transcribers and librarians,
> should be aware, so they can get their work out to a much wider audience. I
> hope any accompanying MusicXML and/or notation files, if available, get
> uploaded too. That doesn’t seem to be the case right now, but it would be
> great if both MusicXML and braille files were uploaded, especially for
> ensemble scores, where individual part extraction is often necessary.
> 
> 
> Links for evidence:
> 
> https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:File_formats
> 
> https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Works_with_Braille_scores
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