Re: Producing scores for visually impaired and blind people

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Greetings Karlin,

Braille music does indeed exist, though significant variation in its
structure and even syntax persists despite attempts at
standardization. The main difference between Braille music and printed
music is that the former is not in any wise spatial. One benefit of
this is that stem directions need never be an issue, and, therefore,
voices in - for example, a piano or organ score - can be accumulated
with ease and clarity, so long as the hands can play them. But there
are certainly benefits to enjoying the spatial dimentions, especially
where a full score for an ensemble would be concerned.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 9/13/19, Karlin High <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 9/13/2019 2:52 PM, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
>> But I wonder if, now 200 years later, some of
>> that bulk could be streamlined.
>
> Here is a thread from November 2017, with a new user introduction from
> Daniel Chavez. A blind musician using LilyPond to make sheet music for
> sighted people.
>
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-11/msg00176.html>
>
> That's where I learned that Music Braille exists:
> <https://braillebug.org/music_braille.asp>
>
> How that would compare in practice to LilyPond's standard output printed
> in 3D is probably a question for someone who knows the experience of
> blind musicians.
> --
> Karlin High
> Missouri, USA
>