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

[Marc Sabatella]

As others have mentioned, it is primarily designed for producing standard
music notation, not Braille.  There is a new and fairly experimental
Braille export option, but it is rather limited compared to the various
converters like BrailleMUSE.  So in many cases, exporting from MuseScore to
MusicXML and then letting BrailleMUSE will do better.  But better results
still can be obtained using software that is designed from the beginning to
work with Braille, like GOODFEEL.  Still, if you have a notion you might
need to have music in both formats - print and Braille - then MuseScore is
a great starting point.

As I mentioned here recently, I have produced a series of tutorials
specifically for blind users, using the current version MuseScore 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdhtLIXLPc&list=PLpx1s2WkyujYgLkA0r30sQGjVhWl4NKZ3

There is also a page on the MsueScore website dedicated to accessibility,
with links to other resources:

https://musescore.org/en/accessibility

MuseScore 3 was already quite accessible but most only Windows using NVDA.
MuseScore 4 improves on this by adding support for most all other major
screen readers - JAWS, Narrator, VoiceOver (macOS), and Orca (Linux) -
while also improving keyboard access to the interface in general.  However,
it's a pretty big change to the interface, so if you're accustomed to
MuseScore 3, there is a bit of a learning curve.

Marc

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:05 AM Carol Sexton via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> Once you borrow braille music, do you still return it or is it now in
> digital format? I just borrowed some books, I have to return them to the
> library for the lbind in Phila. They had told me that I could keep them.
> This is Spanish. It is much to advanced for me so I do want to return.
> Anyway I still always return braille music when I am finished with it.
>
> *From:* Karen Gearreald via Menvi-discuss
> *Sent:* Monday, February 20, 2023 6:55 AM
> *To:* 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'
> *Cc:* Karen Gearreald
> *Subject:* Re: [Menvi-discuss] Dancing Dots, Good Feel, and Muse Score
>
>
> 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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