[Menvi-discuss] introduction and a fwhw questions

Tue Aug 23 17:32:11 EDT 2016

Try Googling the title, but doing a search using quotation marks, like this. Say I want to find the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, but only the first movement. I’d put “Moonlight Sonata” in quotes, then leave a space, type a plus sign immediately followed by the phrase “first movement” in quotation marks, then leave another space, put another plus sign and follow that with “piano”. This way, I get the first movement, played on piano (not some other instrument). If you don’t find what you’re looking the first time around, try the search again changing words or phrases. I’ve found tons of stuff that I wanted to hear this way, as well as some surprises that it turned out were well worth listening to as well. (Once I actually heard Debussy playing his own music—it was recorded on a piano roll for a player piano, but still …)

Good luck and have fun!

Stephanie Pieck

From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Eden
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:52 AM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy; Chris Smart
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] introduction and a fwhw questions

Yes I agree that some classical music can certainly be worth playing. If one gets musical scores, how can you find a recording of said piece. Because even ifI can read music soon, I will want to hear what I'm playing. Thanks. It is true that most of the piano players I like started with classical. I guess I just enjoy so-ing withmy music. It helps me to keep rhythm. 

On August 23, 2016 7:40:51 AM PDT, Chris Smart <csmart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:

Eden, I humbly submit that you will still learn a 
lot playing some classical, and learning from a 
more serious piano or voice teacher who does rely 
on written music. Then, you can take all those 
skills - correct technique, ear training, basic 
theory, reading, etc. - and apply it to whatever 
pop or other styles of music you want to learn for the rest of your life.

At 02:54 AM 8/23/2016, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
My name is Eden, and I am a returning student to 
the piano and hope also to become a halfway 
decent singer. I am just learning to read 
braille music using the Hadley course. I am 
however having a hard time finding a piano 
teacher. All the ones I find do not want to 
bother with sheet music, they seem more 
interested in having me play by
ear. I, however, 
do not have that skill maybe one day but not 
now. I am seeking possibly vocal as well who 
wants to teach the full music experience both 
learning to recognize by ear but also who 
understands the need for sheet music. I am 
wondering if there is possibly anyone you guys 
know of in Portland, Oregon or who possibly 
would do Skype or other types of lessons via 
phone computer or otherwise. I also am going to 
try out the Dancing Dots software to use with my 
braille display. How have you guys found 
scanning to be of things like printed Pdfs. I 
can not for the life of me find such things as 
Tori Amos sheet music in a format I can use but 
maybe I'm not looking right. I asked the site 
selling the music if they could convert to 
musicxml and they said that was against the law. 
I wouldn't think so for this use case. I know 
there is lots of sheet music at Nls, but I'm
not 
a big classical person and "popular" music 
doesn't eWhy describe what I'm into I found a 
few things but not many. If I am learning to 
play and if I like the sound of a classical 
piece, I would play it but I'm much into 
piano-playing singersongwriter type things from 
80s on up. Anyway where have you guys found 
sheet music to purchase that will actually work? 
too is Dancing Dots the only way to either have 
braille or speech notation? Just wondering due 
to the price. I read you could use Midi files 
but also read that all the parts sometimes are 
not notated correctly. I'm just wondering how 
independently with anything I will be able to 
find and read these sheet music. Also too if 
anyone doesn't know of a Skype person to do 
lessons, are there any good accessible online 
piaaro teaching sites or singing sites? Sorry 
for so many questions. I also would not mind 
making
friends in the Portland area to practice 
things with or just to play around musically. My 
email me at edenbledbjÃ -castddnet. Please 
contact me offlist so as not to clutter if you wish. Thanks, Eden Kizer
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