[accessibleimage] Re: Fw: Fw: Sight Reading of Braille Music

May I add to this note that there are a number of people on this list who
are associated in one way or another with commercial interests and who
occasionally provide helpful information about their products.  I am one.
Generally I observe that all of us are fairly open about admitting possible
bias but believe that we are providing useful information.  This
"infomercial" seems to be well within those bounds of propriety.  I hope
that Robert  and Bill continue to provide us with helpful information.
 
John Gardner
Oregon State University and ViewPlus Technologies
 


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[mailto:accessibleimage-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Beth Walsh
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:10 PM
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: Fw: Fw: Sight Reading of Braille Music



Alan, 

        This post from Bill was actually exactly the information I was
looking for.  It was perhaps the most helpful information I have ever
received from this list.  File this under "one person's trash is another's
treasure"!

 

Mary Beth Walsh

Mainely Access Inc.

89 Auburn Street

#1182

Portland, ME 04103

(207)650-8151

FAX (207) 797-8414

 <http://www.mainelyaccess.com> www.mainelyaccess.com 

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From: accessibleimage-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:accessibleimage-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Blackburn, Alan
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:30 PM
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: Fw: Fw: Sight Reading of Braille Music

 

This infomercial was brought to you by .

C'mon guys cut the adverts please, or at least don't make it so obvious.

Alan

 

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[mailto:accessibleimage-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Jaquiss
Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 9:10 AM
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [accessibleimage] Fw: Fw: Sight Reading of Braille Music
Importance: High

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: billlist1@xxxxxxxxxxx 

To: Robert  <mailto:rjaquiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jaquiss 

Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:07 PM

Subject: Re: Fw: [accessibleimage] Sight Reading of Braille Music

 

Dear Robert,

 

Thank you for forwarding this message.  Please send the following reply for
me as I am indeed not a member of this listserv called AccessibleImage.

 

Dear Members of the AcessibleImage List,

 

Robert Jaquiss kindly forwareded a copy of the message below to me.  I am
not subscribed to this list so if you wish to send me an E-mail, please use
my info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx address.

 

As the term implies, sight-reading involves seeing a piece of music for the
first time and playing it "at sight".  In fact, blind singers who read
braille music can sight-read music.  But for those of us blind musicians who
are not singers, we must study and memorize the braille score before we can
perform it.  However, we now have technology to augment the information
provided on a hardcopy braille page.  Please read on to learn more.

 

As Robert knows, I founded Dancing Dots 16 years ago.  It is a technology
company for blind musicians.  We have developed the GOODFEEL Braille Music
Translator which has been integrated with a mainstream music notation editor
called Lime.  Lime is comparable to Finale or Sibelius but has been marketed
as shareware.  

 

Anyhow, if the new material to be learned can be obtained in the form of a
Lime notation file, the student can learn by listening to the PC perform the
music inn tempo or moving through the score note by note or chord by chord.
The JAWS screen reader verbally describes the note as it sounds.  Users with
a refreshable braille display can feel the corresponding braille music
symbols as they navigate through the score.  Print and braille notation
scrolls in sync so that sighted and blind musicians working together always
know the bar and beat of the highlighted note  This integration facilitates
communication between sighted musicians who may not know how to read braille
music and blind musicians who know little or nothing of how print music is
read.

 

Creating Lime files can be accomplished by scanning hardcopy print music
using the SharpEye Music Reader music OCR software included with GOODFEEL,
by importing it in the form of MusicXML which can be exported from
third-party music editors such as Finale or Sibelius, or Lime files can be
created directly by typing in or playing in the notes using the PC and
musical keyboards.

 

Using Lime, one can vary the playback tempo and even mute or solo individual
parts.  For example, if you have memorized the music for the first section
of the soprano part of a vocal score, you can mute the soprano part during
playback.  Then, as the PC plays the other parts, you can play or sing the
soprano part that you have memorized. Or, alternatively, you can simply
listen to the audio playback while reading along from your hardcopy score.

 

The Lime notation editor permits you to transpose music using the Key
Signature dialog that appears after you press CONTROL+K.

 

Here's a bit more information about Lime and Lime Aloud.  See
www.DancingDots.com and follow links to GOODFEEL or Lime Aloud to learn
more.  Click on "Presentations" link from our home page to choose from a
list of audio and video presentations you can review or see the Lime Aloud
page to download the mp3 file for that audio presentation.

 

Lime is software that lets you read and write printed music notation. Lime
Aloud gives the blind musician excellent access to Lime's rich set of
notation editing features. With the JAWS for Windows screen reader software
installed, Lime Aloud provides the blind musician with verbal and musical
cues that make it easy to use Lime independently and most productively. 

Lime Aloud functions as a stand-alone product and also as a feature of the
GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator software from Dancing Dots. In addition to
the many verbal and musical cues Lime Aloud provides, GOODFEEL customers can
read the equivalent braille music for the current measure on their
electronic braille display. Of course, GOODFEEL can also convert the entire
Lime file into the equivalent music braille and send it to your embosser to
make a hardcopy document. Go to www.DancingDots.com and select the link for
GOODFEEL for more information. 

Using Lime with Lime Aloud, you can: 

Listen to playback of all or selected parts in tempo with a metronomic click
as a reference. It's easy to set playback tempo at, under or over the marked
tempo of the piece. 
Memorize new material by listening to the verbal and musical cues as you
move note by note or chord by chord through the Lime file. 
Play along on your own instrument with Lime's playback at a practice or
performance tempo. 
Prepare printed scores of your musical ideas such as original compositions
and arrangements or assignments for music courses. 

You will find a brief audio presentation  demonstrating our access solution
to the Lime notation editor at:
http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/limealoud.htm 

See the heading labeled:
Audio Presentation of Lime Aloud Available for Download 


Alternatively, go to www.DancingDots.com and follow the "Presentations" link
and then select the Lime Aloud demo from the list.

 

Regards from Dancing Dots!

 

Bill McCann

Founder and President since 1992

www.DancingDots.com

 

 

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

Hello Bill:

 

     I thought I would send this your way, since I don't think you are on
the accessibleimage list.

 

Regards,

 

Robert Jaquiss

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Phillip M Minyard (pminyard) <mailto:pminyard@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: 'accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' 

Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:06 PM

Subject: [accessibleimage] Sight Reading of Braille Music

 

We are fortunate to be able to Email a great guy who Brailles music for a
student who is blind. The student is a music, voice, major at the
University, but an essential element of the music program is sight reading
music selections, learning and playing new selections on the piano, and
transposing music.

 

Can any of you offer suggestions as to how we can facilitate this by more
than just handing him sheets of Braille embossed music?

 

Phillip Minyard
Disability Services Coordinator

Student Disability  <http://saweb.memphis.edu/sds/> Services

University of Memphis
110 Wilder Tower
Memphis, TN  38152-3520
Voice 678-2880 - fax 678-3070

 

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner

 


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