[Menvi-discuss] My first mail

Wed Dec 13 23:52:37 EST 2023

Hi, Not sure what you mean by MuseHub?  This isn't something I've used.

A few basic things to get you started with navigation:
Use right/left arrows to move to the next/previous note.
Use Alt plus right/left arrows to move to every element e.g. note, finger number, pedal mark, dynamic, bar line, etc in order.  This will also step down the notes of a chord, or through voices individually which can be a bit confusing to begin with.
Use Alt + Up/Down arrows to move down the notes of a chord, move down a voice, or move down to the next staff.
Use Ctrl + left/right arrows to move bar by bar
Ctrl F and type a measure number then press enter to jump straight to that bar.
Space bar toggles Playback/Pause

There are two modes, normal and note input, press N to toggle between them.
Use note input mode to input notes and normal mode to edit pretty much everything else.

To input notes just type the letter name.
You can type numbers to change durations.  In normal mode this will change the note you are on, in input mode it will change for the next one you are about to enter.

There are all kinds of shortcuts to add slur, tenuto, text, staccato, add a note to a chord etc.

Let me know if I can help further or if you have questions.

Jeanie

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From: Menvi-discuss On Behalf Of Siddharth Keshri via Menvi-discuss
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 5:12 PM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
Cc: Siddharth Keshri <siddhkesh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] My first mail

Hello Geanie,
Thank you so much for your reply. I have downloaded Musescore and musehub software. I was able to install musescore properly. But, when I tried to install musehub, it did not prompt me for the installation, such as click next button etc. I am trying to learn musescore from their hand book of help section.
Thank you so much once again.
On 12/13/23, Jeanie Willis via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:
> I would second Ella’s suggestion of giving MuseScore a go.
>
> It is very accessible and there are a few of us here who are quite 
> proficient with it that can assist you if you need some help.
>
>
>
> The advantages of using MuseScore over the text based system are that 
> you can hear the music as you are inputting it.  You can export to mp3 
> or to xml to import into other music software.  It creates good 
> looking fully customisable print scores and with a screen reader will 
> read out all the notes and other elements to you as you input them.  
> There is also a vast library of music created by other users that you can download from.
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> If you want to give it a go just go to www.musescor.org 
> <http://www.musescor.org>  to download, it is free.  It works straight 
> away with your screen reader without any Add ons, but you will need to 
> learn some how to navigate around it and other shortcuts.  There is a 
> basic user guide for accessibility for this that you can download to 
> read and I have lists of shortcuts and other tips.
>
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>
> Hope that helps
>
> Jeanie
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>
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> From: Menvi-discuss On Behalf Of Ella Yu via Menvi-discuss
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:39 PM
> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
> <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
> Cc: Ella Yu <ellaxyu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] My first mail
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> Hi, I have not used Lilypond personally, but I agree with Bruce's thoughts.
> Lilypond is accessible because it is a completely text-based system, 
> but you kinda have to think like a coder, so it is not intuitive. If 
> you want to notate music in notation software, learning something like 
> MuseScore (which is also very accessible) would be far more efficient.
>
>
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> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 8:36 PM Bruce Maguire via Menvi-discuss 
> <menvi-discuss at menvi.org <mailto:menvi-discuss at menvi.org> > wrote:
>
> Hello Siddarth
>
> Welcome to the list. I haven't used Lillypond extensively, but I did a 
> bit of experimenting with it earlier this year as part of my search 
> for an accessible and accurate way of getting my musical compositions 
> out of my head and on to the page with a view to sharing them. Because 
> Lillypond is text-based (a bit like LaTeX in the maths world) it's 
> potentially very accessible, but you have to be comfortable with 
> thinking symbolically and applying rules to construct musical notes 
> from their individual elements (pitch, duration, etc.). One 
> significant limitation with Lillypond is that you can't export its 
> notation to other formats like MusicXML, unless there have been recent 
> changes that I'm not aware of. You can, however, print scores as pdf 
> files, and you can share the notation files that contain the text with other Lillypond users, but overall it's a fairly closed system.
> That might be fine of course, depending on what you want to do with it.
>
> Best wishes
> Bruce
>
>
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> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] My first mail
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> Hello friends,
> I am Siddharth Kumar Keshri from India. I like to play flute and keyboard.
> Friends, I have a question regarding Lilypond music software. Does 
> anyone from this list use it? If yes, then kindly share your 
> experience regarding its accessibility. I am asking this question, 
> because on their website called lilypond.org <http://lilypond.org> , 
> they have mentioned, that some Visually Impaired people also use this 
> software; as it is a text based application.
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> With warm regards
> Siddharth Kumar Keshri
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