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

[Nicole Ming Hui Pua]

I prefer the intervals, it gives me the melody line in most cases.

Nicole.



On 16/02/2012, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonboy13 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was talking in music terms and not literary terms. So a dropped F eighth
> note would be a repeat sign. and a dropped G eighth note would be a staccato
> marking.
> You're right in literary terms though.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bettie Downing
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:56 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?
>
> No.  A dropped F is a trill sign and a dropped G is a repeat sign.
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> wouldn't a dropped F be a repeat sign? and wouldn't a dropped g be a
>> staccato
> mark?
>> I've never heard of dropping the notes and I don't think it would work...
>> It's true that I see notes better than intervals, but honestly if you keep
>>
>> in mind that your hand is a 5th it is pretty easy to find the intervals...
>>
>> It is just annoying when you need to go down to the bass line to get your
>> bass note...
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs
>> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Bahr
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:23 PM
>> To: menvi-discuss at menvi. org
>> 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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