[Menvi-discuss] How To Determine Whole And SixteenthNotes/Rests InBraille Music

[Debra Baxley]

Good explanation!  Sometimes, a small value sign, dots 1-2-6; dot 5 is
before a sixteenth note; not always.

Debra

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[mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] How To Determine Whole And SixteenthNotes/Rests
InBraille Music

Hello,
If there is a space on either side of the whole measure rest, it is probably

a whole rest. If there are notes on either side without a space, it is 
probably a 16th note.
Can you tell if there is a space in the music?

Exceptions:
At the end of a measure there may be a 16th note rest, but it will be 
connected to the measure before or after it.
At the very beginning of a section, there will be a number like mm or 16m. 
The first means there is 2 measures of rest, the second means there are 16 
measures of rest.
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs
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From: Chela Robles
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 12:39 PM
To: menvi-discuss at menvi.org
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] How To Determine Whole And Sixteenth Notes/Rests 
InBraille Music

I still have a hard time determining whole and sixteenth in music, no,
not by ear, but by reading the braille music, any other tips other than
what I read as follows from Bettye Krolick's book, How To Read Braille
Music An Introduction Second Edition: ""Count the beats in  the measure,
and it will be easy to decide whether a note has a large or a small value."
Call me Braille Music dyslexic, but I still do not get it! Please
explain how you determine the two seeing as is dots 3 and 6 in the lower
cell define both ultimately whether it be a rest or a note? Any other
tricks to determine Sixteenth and whole all, that would be greatly
appreciated. I told my friend off list that it is hard for me to
decipher and would like to do so eventually, but as soon as I see it, I
revert back to playing by ear, don't gasp now, but that is how I learned
how to play music originally, in fact, I didn't learn braille music
until 2004 and part of 2005, at the Orientation Center for the Blind in
Albany California, and only one braille instructor a fine pianist,
taught me the basic, but then gave up on me when I had a hard time
determining the two types Whole and Sixteenth...so I'm taking it upon
myself to learn it on my own spare time and I do remember all the other
note/rest types so that is good to know from the only music book I do
have the Bettye Krolick one, may she rest in peace and always be remembered!

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