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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Good questions, Kim, as always!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you want to create your own braille music files via six-key data entry, Duxbury will do the job delightfully, especially as you know how to use the Jaws alt-9 command to tell you the page number, line number, and cell number of your document. You can also use Duxbury to edit the “brf” music files which other transcribers or braille users have created.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Not to be forgotten, either, are the splendid services and skills of transcribers who can personally convert music from print into braille for you. As you know, a wealth of such transcriber-created music is available on the NLS BARD archive from the Library of Congress, and the wealth grows from week to week. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>At the same time, it is important to know about the Dancing Dots suite and all the other wonderful software which is being discussed in the current MENVI messages. Those programs, too, are evolving. As you come to know more about the software and your own comfort level and the needs of your students, you can expand your options. For the moment, as you are just beginning, I would use the already available braille materials, supplemented by simple exercises that you can create and emboss through Duxbury. You and your students will have fun as you and they find ways to make music together. Singing is always an option. You might also consider buying a simple Yamaha tabletop keyboard so that you and your student can play together on separate keyboards. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> Karen Gearreald <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kimberly Morrow via Menvi-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 20, 2023 12:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'<br><b>Cc:</b> drkimctvi@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Menvi-discuss] Dancing Dots, Good Feel, and Muse Score<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Embossing music in Braille—programs & prices I’minterested in knowing what programs are out there that allow one to write and emboss music in Braille. I have Duxbury and JAWS, and am wondering what Good Feel or dancing Dots do that Duxbury does not in terms of transcribing music from a .brf file. Do people “here” have a preference of Good Feel versus Dancing Dots? What about the cost of each program?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, how does Muse Score work? Is it fairly accessible, or are there accessibility issues to work around?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks in advance!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kimberly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>