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

[Richard Taesch]

Marc,

I believe that NLS has just made a large order of "An Introduction to ..."
from Dancing Dots. If so, a class of blind students would probably be able
to each obtain a copy for free on loan.

Yours,
Richard
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Richard Taesch
Recipient - Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award - 2017
*Author*  - "*For all too soon" - The Seasons of a Music Teacher - 2021*
*             - *"*An Introduction to Music for the Blind Student"* - Series
Founder - *Music Education Network for - *
*The Visually Impaired*


On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 12:32 PM Kathleen Cantrell via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> The new edition of DeGarmo’s Intro to Braille Music transcription (part 1)
> is available for download on the NFB website. It had great drills with
> answer keys and exercises to lead the student through learning Braille
> music.
>
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> Music Braille Transcribing | National Federation of the Blind
> <https://nfb.org/programs-services/braille-certification/music-braille-transcribing>
> nfb.org
> <https://nfb.org/programs-services/braille-certification/music-braille-transcribing>
>
> <https://nfb.org/programs-services/braille-certification/music-braille-transcribing>
>
> Kathleen
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 28, 2023, at 2:56 PM, Marc Sabatella via Menvi-discuss <
> menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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