[Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of interval signs and tricks for right hand reading?

[Debra Baxley]

I read Braille piano music.  When reading right-hand intervals, the fifth in
the treble clef is the note that's given; the left hand has the root note
given; so, one knows the root note from the left hand, and the fifth note
from the right hand.  Example:  The C chord would be read G, as the given
note; third interval, which would be E; fifth interval, which would be C.

Example:  C, flat sixth, would be C down to E-flat.

Debra

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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:23 PM
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Subject: [Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of interval signs and tricks
for right hand reading?

hi list,

I was just wondering if anyone used the system of subnotes instead of 
interval signs. This is where the note that is to be played is written 
in a dropped cell next to the first note which is written normally. So a 
c chord would be the c written in normal braille music, then a dropped 
e, or the en sign, and then a dropped g, or the were, sign.

I ask because I am having a lot of trouble reading intervals top down in 
the right hand of piano music. I've never been good at inverting things, 
in life and in music. So I'm wondering if that subnote system would work 
better, or, perhaps there's some trick to reading intervals top down 
that I'm not aware of? I have trouble figuring out what a flatted sixth 
would be written top down, for example. I can't really say why, I guess 
it's just never computed in my brain properly, maybe because I'm 
relatively new and slow at braille music? In my music theory book the 
right hand intervals were written upward, which would be a good solution 
except that that's not the standard practice.
-- 
Well, any thoughts on this are welcome, I'm very interested to see what 
sort of discussion this will generate.
Thanks for reading,
Dave C. Bahr

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