[Menvi-discuss] Young Braille music student/keep those suggestions coming/question

[Marc Sabatella]

FWIW, sighted music students normally learn about note durations long
before they learn about fractions.  Schools in the US start teaching note
duration in music around grade 1 but don't deal with fractions in math
until several years later.  In practice, it's just not a big deal.  First,
you don't need to understand fractions to be able to count, so you can talk
bout notes getting different numbers of beats even with pre-school
children.  And they've all heard these words before - they know that half
an hour is a shorter amount of time than an hour, that sharing a treat with
someone means they each get half, they know there are four quarters in a
dollar, they understand the idea of a pizza being cut into eight slices,
etc.  They don't need to really have a firm grasp on the mathematics of
fractions to get the basic idea of how note durations work.

Marc

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 3:13 AM Sandra Gayer via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> Hello Kimberly,
> I'm surprised an 11-year-old doesn't know fractions yet.  I'm sure
> he'll understand the concept of dividing, especially pizza or cake.
> You may get away with pretend objects you can pull apart but you might
> like to resort to real cake/pizza, halves, quarters, eighths etc.
> Thinking out loud, squares are probably easier to conceptualise in
> this way as your student can, eventually, section them mentally, using
> the tactile memory you will build together. If you introduce the
> notion of halves and quarters, using shapes cut out of another shape,
> letting your student feel each stage of the process, then translating
> this into music, using a basic nursery rime and I suggest 4/4 at
> first, I'm sure it will work out.
>
> HTH,
> very best wishes,
> Sandra.
>
> On 2/20/23, ruby alphonse via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Kimberly I generally use the books  Braille music for the beginners
> > for the Piano by Joan Partridge, there are exercises nicely explained
> > the time valu, e note value,   articulations,   dynamics,  and
> > abriviations,  intervels and so on. another book I use, Read Rember
> > and Play, This book is also very well explained I find everything very
> > well explained.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > Ruby.
> >
> > On 2/20/23, Kimberly Morrow via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
> > wrote:
> >> First, I want to thank all of the wonderful people on this list who have
> >> offered suggestions for teaching an 11-year-old Braille reader to read
> >> Braille music. Now, yet another question. I'm confident he hasn't
> covered
> >> fractions yet in school. So. . .what is the easiest way to explain note
> >> values to an 11-year-old? How can I simplify the process of rhythm to
> >> make
> >> it more comprehensible?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Many thanks again!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Kimberly in KC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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