[sib-access] Re: Braille music notation

  • From: Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:36:36 -0400

as someone else said, get a score that has been properly transcribed 
and examine its formatting.

At 10:21 AM 10/11/2014, you wrote:
>I want to ask you two questions:
>1. Is it alright if I put song's title on the first line after 10 free
>cells, composer's name below song's title, a tempo instruction below
>composer's name and a key-signature and time-signature below that tempo
>instruction, or is it wrong?
>2. Do I have to put a key-signature followed by a time-signature, or a
>time-signature followed by a key-signature on the same line, without any
>spaces?
>
>I hope you understood me.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Roger Fordham
>Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 3:52 PM
>To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [sib-access] Re: Braille music notation
>
>You don't set out a braille music score like you do in staff notation.
>The easiest way to proceed is to give a separate line to your title,
>your composer, etc. Then you may put the tempo marking, the metronome
>marking on the same braille line. The key-signature and time-signature
>go on the next line, next to each other without spaces. The
>time-signature is written so that the top figure represents the number
>of beats, 2 3 4 6 etc. and you use the lower braille cells to indicate
>the value of those beats, i.e. 4 for quarter, 8 for eighth notes, 2 for
>halves, [minims], etc.
>You put your expression marks, F for forte, p for piano etc, preceeded
>by a word-sign, > in braille, which looks like a greater-than sign on
>computers. You then add the octave sign, and then the value of the note.
>I hope that that is a start, anyway.
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