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Tactile graphic scores in the classroom
In my previous posts I touched on some of the complexities of braille music and how it bears very little resemblance to print music. I know that sounds really obvious, but what I mean by this, is that the cognitive process of interpreting the symbols into sound is very different. The process of interprtetting braille…
Why bother with music braille?
Ok, let’s start with the negatives, shall we? The arguments for not needing music braille. Lots of the students that I encounter are great at learning music by ear. They learn quickly and can learn very complex music using aural methods, especially if their teacher makes recordings for them to use in between lessons. The…
The concept that music can be represented by symbols
This may seem like an obvious place to start but I think it is worth mentioning that I have had some students with a vision impairment who have found the very concept that music is written down difficult to grasp. We must never underestimate the importance of incidental learning and so most of the students…
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