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

[Leslie Hamric]

Holy buckets! Are you serious? I use IMSLP all the time to download parts for my cello music. I do have some questions. Was the braille music score provided for just some pieces or all pieces? Second, can you download braille transcriptions of individual parts as well? Third, how accurate is the braille? I'm looking forward to hearing more about this and seeing it for myself. This could be a huge game changer!
Leslie Hamric
Cello and Braille Music Teacher

> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:44 PM, 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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