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

[Ella Yu]

Yeah, this is great news, for sure. Anyone who plays classical music at a
high level will most likely be quite familiar with imslp.org, arguably the
most comprehensive website for locating scores for classical music in the
public domain.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 7:50 PM Jason Castonguay via Perform-Talk <
perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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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