[Menvi-discuss] Grade 8 exam pieces

[Ella Yu]

Hi all, RCM goes up to level 10 and then there's a grad level, just for
reference. Sadly, finding the actual repertoire books in braille is very
difficult, and is made worse by the new CNIB library thing which seems to
have removed a lot of older braille music titles. I think the best course
of action is to figure out which pieces you need, and we can try to help
you source them. Finding braille music is very hard a lot of the time, and
what is available is very restrictive. Having optical music recognition
helps a lot, but you still need sighted assistance to get it to work.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 3:38 PM Jeanie Willis via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> Hi Ruby,
>
> Has your student chosen her pieces yet?  Can you tell us what they are and
> we can see if we can find a brf or even xml in another exam book or sheet
> music.
>
> Have you contacted ABRSM special needs and asked them for these specific
> pieces to be urgently transcribed?  Did you get a response?  You could also
> try contacting the publishers as listed in the print book directly and see
> if there is any way they can release the xml or similar file to you to
> convert to Braille.  I sometimes find that making an e-mail a CC to several
> different departments or people within an organisation makes it harder for
> them to all ignore, so keep trying.
>
> I think you should give up trying to find a way to convert the music from
> pdf or scanned image as this is just not going to be good enough for you as
> a teacher.  Even if you got all the notes, which is unlikely you will be
> missing essential articulation, fingering and many other things.  An
> existing brf or xml will be much closer.
>
> If we can help you find a brf or xml do you have a way set up to edit the
> Braille?  My suggestion is that you could either pay a transcriber to
> compare the brf that isn't the original ABRSM and edit it to add any small
> details that are different.  This should be much less expensive than
> transcribing from scratch.  Or, you could go through with your student
> either a few bars at a time or through a topic such as all the dynamics in
> a
> piece, or the pedal marks, or the articulation and get them to read out
> what
> it does so you can check and edit them.  This is a little time consuming,
> but also might help your student to become much more familiar with the
> pieces.
>
> The only other option is to pay to have them transcribed if you can.  I do
> understand how frustrating this all is.  I have been very frustrated myself
> this past year with just how little is available and I think over time it
> is
> easy to become desensitised to the hugegaping cavern between what is
> available to a teacher in print and what in Braille which is so crazily
> restrictive.  It is also impossible to even add up all the extra hours
> spent
> to get to the same starting point of having the music ready to begin
> teaching.  But, I guess we love what we do and so somehow we find a way!
>
> If someone can tell me whether the RCM exams are the same Grade level I can
> download the past ones from ABC and check through those also.
>
> Jeanie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Grade 8 exam pieces
>
> Hello list members, please can anyone tell me where to get braille
> transcribed I need very urgently grade 8  2023-2024 syllabus a braille copy
> to teach a student, there isn't BRF file available on the website of ABRSM
> specific needs. This student wants to prepare from now on to do the exams
> next year, so I cannot use the previous syllabus, so please anyone knows
> where I can get hard copy of this Grade 8  ABRSM
> 2023-2024 syllabus. or BRF file, I can get them embossed here. Any help is
> appreciated deeply.
>
> Thank you all in advance,
>
> Ruby.
>
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