An Introduction to Music for the Blind, Part 1 - A Review

A blind musician's review on Richard Taesch's text on reading and writing Braille music, Part 1.

Topics covered in this book includes:
1. all pitches- do/c, re/d, mi/e, fa/f, sol/g, la/a, ti/b
2. basic rhythms for pitches and rests- quaver/eighth, cratchet/quarter, minim/half, semibreve/whole, the tie
3. octave marks- 4th, 5th, and 3rd
4. time signatures, bars, and bar lines- 3/8, 4/4, 3/4, C, FINE/ending barline, single barlines ( | ), double thin bar lines ( || ), backward repeat ( :|| ), measure and part measure repeat signs
5. piano fingering
6. sharp, flat, natural
7. music phrasing/slurs
8. Major and natural minor scales and key signatures- Do/C, la/a, Sol/G, mi/e
9. music hyphen
10. melodic intervals- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th
11. fixed and movable Do systems
12. Parallel and relative scales
13. tonal memory

This product is good for someone who have a good ear but was not taught how to read Braille Music Code. The exercises and Theory exams can be quite rigerous at times, but this course is preparing the student for university studies.

This book is best with supliments such as writing music by ear, and rhythm and sight singing excerpts from other books of similare materials.

‼️👉SPECIAL NOTE:
It advised for the student to sing the music using Solfa before picking up an instrument. This is a teaching philasophy that has been lost as of late. The aim of "music lessons" was to teach what we now call music "theory" and "sight singing" and "ear training", namely:
1. reading and knowing what music symbols look like
2. singing pitches, intervals, and chords using Solfa
3. identifying pitches, intrtvals, and chords by ear
4. writing music that is heard
5. understanding how all these were put together by copywork of quality musicians, analysis, and improvising/composing.

All the "master" composers that many look up learneed these skills before they began "formal" studies on an instrument.

Learning to sight read music away from an instrument will greatly improve memory, and musicianship when the student does pick an instrument for the first time.

With that said, the student should be fluent in music note reading before playing an instrument.


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