[Menvi-discuss] describing music visually

[Oscar Lozoya]

I also found Betty's desscription very accurate. Wyny's question is also great because it brings another issue to the surface. To what extent words can describe graphics? In order to have a clear idea of how a graphic looks like, sighted people must seeit. Similarly, to obtain the same result, blind people must touch it. I have noticed that this obvious fact is often easily oversaw when teaching music to a blind person.    
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: STEPHANIE PIECK 
  To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
  Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] describing music visually


  I loved Betty Downing's descriptions--thanks Winy for posting the question and Betty for answering. The descriptions of half and whole rests were especially helpful for me. They are easily confused by beginning music readers.

  As for chords: the notes are arranged and aligned vertically--I tell my students it looks like they're stacked on top of each other. If the notes of a chord are very close together--in intervals of seconds, for instance, or when written on leger lines or spaces--they may be offset a bit so they don't just blend into this big indistinguishable blob.

  In the "C" shape of the bass clef, the opening of the "C" goes to the left.

  Stephanie


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