[Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of intervalsignsandtricks for right hand reading?

[Bettie Downing]

Ask Karen.



On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Debra Baxley wrote:

> Since I cannot read BRF files, would anyone send me a hard copy in Braille?
> 
> Debra
> 
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> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Tina Davidson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of
> intervalsignsandtricks for right hand reading?
> 
> Hi Debra,
> It's Mendelssohn's Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28 and will be available
> for free from the Library of Congress (NLS web braille) as soon as I finish
> it... in a week or two.
> 
> Tina
> www.ctdcreations.com
> 
> 
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> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Debra Baxley
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:00 PM
> To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of interval
> signsandtricks for right hand reading?
> 
> Which piano piece is that?  I want a Braille copy.
> 
> Debra
> 
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> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Tina Davidson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:19 PM
> To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of interval signs
> andtricks for right hand reading?
> 
> Hi Dave,
> I'm a sighted music transcriber and I understand what you mean about not
> being able to quickly read intervals down instead of up. I'm a guitarist, so
> I always think from the bottom up in terms of harmony.
> But, the biggest problem I see with using subnotes with lowered note names
> is that you have now eliminated the wonderful tool in braille music of being
> able to double the intervals for a series of chords. For instance, I am
> working on a piano piece that is full of 32nd note octave chords and various
> other chords with the same intervals repeated. I know that each chord is
> memorized as you are learning the piece, but imagine how quickly you could
> read and learn a passage of thirds or sixths or octaves by only having to
> read the top note.
> I think it's a matter of just learning those darn intervals in the right
> hand until they fit under your fingers. Hymns are good for interval practice
> or perhaps just pounding away in thirds, then fourths, fifths, and sharp
> sixths. Good luck!
> 
> Tina
> www.ctdcreations.com
> 
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> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Dave Bahr
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:23 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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