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Posted by: Donna Koh
Today’s post is about the braille books in our collection that explain to blind readers how staff notation (print music) works. In case you are wondering why blind musicians need to know staff notation, two important reasons come to mind. First, music teachers who are visually impaired must be able to help their sighted students …
Posted in: Braille Music, Braille Technology, Tactile Graphics, Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
Posted by: Donna Koh
Part 1 The end goal for most college music students is to develop and cultivate skills to prepare for a successful musical career after graduation. For some music students with visual impairment (V.I.), just getting through the college degree program can be challenging. Here are some common reasons: inability to learn a large amount of …
Posted in: Blind Teachers, Braille Music, Braille Technology, Interviews, Music Education, Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
Posted by: Donna Koh
“You are beautiful! You make me so happy.” This maybe a typical remark of an ardent dog lover fussing over her Pomeranian, or a declaration by a young bridegroom as he gazes at his fiancée walking down the aisle in her gorgeous wedding gown. However, here in the Music Section, such sentiments are usually uttered …
Posted in: Braille Music, Braille Technology, NLS Music Section
Posted by: Amanda Smith
As part of a continuing series introducing blog readers to facets of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), I recently spoke with NLS Senior Staff Engineer and music enthusiast, Lloyd Rasmussen. By interviewing Lloyd, I hoped to answer two questions: 1) What does an engineer do in a library? 2) …
Posted in: Braille Music, Braille Technology, Interviews
Posted by: Amanda Smith
The work of digitizing the Music Section‘s braille music scores continues unabated. Details of the Section’s scanners and software were discussed in a previous post. Since then, the German scanner has served as the driving resource for digitizing braille music items. The digital copies of scores and parts are backed up and archived, serving as …
Posted in: Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Technology, NLS Music Section
Posted by: John Hanson
My last post presented a list of new digital braille titles that had recently been added to our collection. This post is to make clear that we have a program of digitizing our braille music collection, and to describe how we have been doing it. It might also be good to underscore why we have …
Posted in: Braille Music, Braille Technology