[Menvi-discuss] Need Help understanding a Symbol

[Karen Gearreald]

The mysterious sign is an old way of notating the ink-print symbol for the
treble clef.  The current symbol also has three characters:  dots 345 34
123.  

 

In current transcriptions of theory books, you may encounter clef signs,
which also appear in facsimile transcriptions that attempt to alert the
braille reader to all the symbols in the ink-print score.  Generally,
however, you will seldom see clef signs in braille transcriptions.

 

Older transcriptions deserve our attention; but if you plan to read them
extensively and comprehensively, you will need Bettye Krolick's DICTIONARY
OF BRAILLE MUSIC SIGNS.  You can obtain this book from NLS in hard copy or
"web braille" format.

 

 
Karen Gearreald 

 

From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
Dani L Pagador
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 7:57 PM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Need Help understanding a Symbol

 

Hi, Everyone.

I'm looking at the 666 Fake Song Book, downloaded from BARD. 

 

On page B-14 in Volume 4, in the song Besame Mucho, almost each line of
chords is preceded by the three cell symbol "16 145 234". I've never seen
this before and wonder what it means. 

 

The book was transcribed in 1971 by someone from the Johanna Bureau for the
Blind and Visually Handicapped Inc.

 

I've attached a .brf of the first few measures of the song.

 

Thanks for any insight,

Dani

 

  

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