[Smt-talk] Schenkerian analysis - visual impaired student

[Paul Cadrin]

I have also taught a visually impaired student and did some choral conducting with singers who had to read their part in braille. Yes, there are lots of pieces available in braille, but this language is strictly linear. As far as I know, there is no way you can "show" a score with all its parts simultaneously. Music must be read not only horizontally, but vertically too, and not only from left to right, but also from right to left in certain cases (for example, when you have a rest printed in the middle of a measure, which really comes into action at the beginning of the measure. Our plight is very similar to that of mathematics, where formulas have to be readable in all these directions too. I know that mathematicians have developed a way of adapting a form of braille codification to these situations. Is there anything equivalent in music? Is there any research done in that direction? I am sure many of us would like to know.
Paul Cadrin
Musicologue sans frontières
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Montréal (Québec) Canada H1V 2G5
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