A recent article I read on sightreading noted that many band directors pull out sightreading materials only before contest periods. Its important that sightreading be reinforced as often as possible. I started a sightreading assessment program in my band classes. Students are required to read aloud or silently an exercise of 4 measures and then perform it. For many of my students, the challenge has them only able to read one measure at a time, but the goal is to expand those skills to 4 or more. <br>
<br>In a brief discussion with some people that oversee the state band competitions in my state, the only accommodations they provided were large print, and braille music was not offered. From the discussions I have read here, it is interesting how much our society is still not willing to provide or understand the capabilities of blind or visually impaired musicians. Rick<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Dewald van Deventer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewaldvandeventer@gmail.com">dewaldvandeventer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri">And my music teacher told me
not to take violin since it's useless and hopeless for a blind violinist in an
orchestra. </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Know i know. There's a way for everything!</font></div>
<div>Anyone's got a secondhand violin for me? Smile.</div>
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<div><font size="4">Here in Texas a few years ago, I had a braille music violin
student. He got the music before the other students and memorized
it. Then during the sight-reading section at UIL competitions, he
would play with the rest of the orchestra. At first, in 6th grade, it
was only 2 hours early, and then we kept getting more time in the
years that followed as the music got more difficult. He would get it a
day or two ahead to learn it.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Everyone thought he couldn't do the sight reading because he
didn't have sight, but I ranted and raved until they made the
modification. I figured if he felt like he couldn't do it by contest
time, he would exclude himself. It was not their place to exclude
him.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Syl</font></div></font>
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