Braille Music Notation For The Blind A Course Of Lessons Drawn Up For The Use Of Sighted Teachers

Author : L. W. Rodenberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364864371
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Key to the Braille Music Notation, 1922 written by L. W. Rodenberg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Key to the Braille Music Notation, 1922: With Synopsis and Index, Together With a Foreword By means of this method, after almost a century Of experimentation, it is now possible adequately to transcribe into Braille the most elaborate musical score, whether originally written in the Staff or Tonic Sol-fa notations, or even in that Of Plainsong. Since the year 1868 the National Institute has taken a leading part in the world of the blind, not only in transcribing and publishing vast quantities Of Braille music, but also in preparing a series Of explanatory pamphlets, or Keys. These have appeared at various periods, as the system developed, and have always been issued in duplicate, i.e., in the embossed Braille-type for the blind, and in ink-print for the use of sighted persons who may have to help or instruct the blind in music. It is only to be expected that such a unique system of music notation (invented in 1829) would be considerably improved in the course Of years, and the periodic publication of these Keys represented so many efforts to standardise the notation when these improvements received official sanction. In this way a certain general uniformity Of practice was preserved. In America and on the Continent, however, considerable divergence gradually arose, and in 1913 the National Institute decided to appoint a special Committee of musicians of repute - all expert in their knowledge of Braille and of the existing conditions - to investigate the whole question, with power to adopt what should seem to them to be desirable in the practice Of the best Braillists at home and abroad. They were also instructed to revise the entire system, and at the same time to compile a new and comprehensive Key which should thereafter be accepted as authoritative so far as British methods were concerned, and which should represent as near an approach to the ideal Of international standardization as possible. Henceforward, therefore, all Braille music issued from the embossing presses Of the National Institute will be in the style elucidated in this 1922 Key. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.