[Menvi-discuss] Dancing Dots, Good Feel, and Muse Score

[Karen Gearreald]

Good questions, Kim, as always!

 

If you want to create your own braille music files via six-key data entry,
Duxbury will do the job delightfully, especially as you know how to use the
Jaws alt-9 command to tell you the page number, line number, and cell number
of your document.  You can also use Duxbury to edit the "brf" music files
which other transcribers or braille users have created.

 

Not to be forgotten, either, are the splendid services and skills of
transcribers who can personally convert music from print into braille for
you.  As you know, a wealth of such transcriber-created music is available
on the NLS BARD archive from the Library of Congress, and the wealth grows
from week to week.  

 

At the same time, it is important to know about the Dancing Dots suite and
all the other wonderful software which is being discussed in the current
MENVI messages.  Those programs, too, are evolving.  As you come to know
more about the software and your own comfort level and the needs of your
students, you can expand your options.  For the moment, as you are just
beginning, I would use the already available braille materials, supplemented
by simple exercises that you can create and emboss through Duxbury.  You and
your students will have fun as you and they find ways to make music
together.  Singing is always an option.  You might also consider buying a
simple Yamaha tabletop keyboard so that you and your student can play
together on separate keyboards.   

 
Karen Gearreald 

 

From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
Kimberly Morrow via Menvi-discuss
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 12:38 AM
To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'
Cc: drkimctvi at gmail.com
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Dancing Dots, Good Feel, and Muse Score

 

Embossing music in Braille-programs & prices              I'minterested in
knowing what programs are out there that allow one to write and emboss music
in Braille. I have Duxbury and JAWS, and am wondering what Good Feel or
dancing Dots do that Duxbury does not in terms of transcribing music from a
.brf file. Do people "here" have a preference of Good Feel versus Dancing
Dots? What about the cost of each program?

 

Also, how does Muse Score work? Is it fairly accessible, or are there
accessibility issues to work around?

 

Many thanks in advance!

 

Kimberly

 

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