[Menvi-discuss] Support for sighted musicians learning Braille music?

[Marc Sabatella]

Thanks everyone for the replies so far!  I'll be checking out the resources
mentioned.  I do want to check out what I can from libraries first where
possible, but I gather as a sighted musician, my options may be somewhat
limited?  I've gone ahead and ordered the first part of the Taesch series
from Dancing Dots as I definitely figure I should have that.  I have some
friends locally from whom I may be able to borrow other materials from for
evaluation or my own use.  But I'm also trying to figure out the best
strategies if I'm going to have a whole group of people studying this at
once and wanting them all to have access to the same materials.  I
definitely don't want to violate anyone's copyrights by distributing copies
of things without permission, but I'm not sure have much success convincing
everyone to buy expensive texts, either.

As for what I actually plan to do, I really have no idea yet.  I'm still in
the stage of figuring out what's available that would be useful to me and
the people I envision working with.  I'll be following up as I go.  I seem
to recall hearing that the original Hadley course was online in part but
also had a component that was done via mail?  I also had heard that World
Service for the Blind was looking at perhaps doing their own course but it
may have been shelved or at least temporarily sidetracked.  What I'm
thinking about would be different anyhow - geared more for educators - but
it's conceivable the format could work for blind musicians too depending on
what we come up with.

Marc

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:37 PM Marc Sabatella <marc at outsideshore.com>
wrote:

> As a sighted educator who sometimes works with blind students, I've
> learned a bit of Braille here and there.  I've long had it in my head to
> learn more - not expecting to become fluent, but just to be able to help
> students more.  Also to be able to do small amounts of transcription of
> simple examples using the basic tools available to me (automatic conversion
> tools, editing in Toby Rush's Braille Music Notator, etc).  And now, I have
> one student who is also an educator and is not currently blind but recently
> learned that this is probably in her future, so she is also interested in
> getting a head start on learning Braille music.
>
> I'm wondering two things.  One, what resources might one recommend for
> someone in my/our position - sighted educators wanting to learn a little
> more than just the basics of Braille music?  And two, on the assumption
> that there really isn't a resource perfectly tailored for this already,
> what could I do to help facilitate something along these lines?  I have
> experience in creating accessible online courses and I have a
> reasonably accessible online community where I could host someone
> interested in coming on as a coach.
>
> --
> Marc Sabatella
> marc at outsideshore.com
>


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Marc Sabatella
marc at outsideshore.com
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