[Menvi-discuss] describing music visually

[Ann Clem]

I use a felt board, with music symbols on a staff, where the lines are
enhanced with thread or string.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Oscar Lozoya <oscarlozoya09 at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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 <themusicsuite at verizon.net>
> *To:* This is for discussing music and braille literacy<Menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
> *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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