[sib-access] Re: beams, lyrics
- From: "Alison Trelfa" <alison.trelfa@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:35:40 +0100
You should apply for a job as a music teacher, Dan. lol. I couldn't have
described it better myself.
Alison.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Rugman" <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:48 PM
Subject: [sib-access] Re: beams, lyrics
> Hi Stephanie,
>
> You certainly wouldn't be the only Braille reader who doesn't know about
> beams. They're one of those concepts which is essentially visual, but
> which
> does tell you something useful. I can't explain them fully without
> "dissertating" but to put it simply, they show how notes are to be grouped
> together. For example, four eighth notes will be joined by a single
> horizontal line which just touches the top of the stems. The result is to
> make the notes look like golf clubs hanging from a rail.
>
> The number of horizontal lines has to be the same as the number of flags
> or
> hooks which are used on the stems. So, eighth notes are joined by one
> beam,
> sixteenth notes by two (arranged like a pair of tram lines),
> thirty-seconds
> by three, and so on.
>
> This system is very useful in unusual time signatures where the grouping
> is
> not regular. For example, in 7/8 the eighth notes could be grouped as
> 3+2+2,
> 2+3+2 or 2+2+3.
>
> In the first case, the first three eighth notes would have a beam joining
> them, as would the fourth and fifth notes, and the sixth and seventh
> notes.
> The important point is that there is no beam between the third and fourth
> notes, nor between the fifth and sixth notes.
>
> The Braille equivalent is the grouping sign but this is hardly every used
> because it's assumed that we can just work out the grouping by using some
> common sense.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Dan Rugman
>
> visit the new on-line resource for visually impaired musicians and home of
> Sibelius Access.
> www.musicaccess.co.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephanie Mitchell
> Sent: 06 April 2009 13:01
> To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [sib-access] beams, lyrics
>
> Hi all.
> I have 2 questions...
> What are beams and how are they used? I'd heard of them, but only know
> braille music and knowledge of print notation is very basic.
>
> I'm a little confused about entering lyrics. I can do it fine. I just
> don't
> know how to make my one lyric "god" in this case, extend over my 3 notes.
> Do
> I slur it or something? or put a dash on each note it extends too?
> Thanks.
> Steph
> ps. Thanks for the great work with these scritps. It has changed my life
> and
> i wish I had those 4 years ago!
>
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