Dirk Koopman <d...@tobit.co.uk> writes: > There is something called "Music Braille", invented by the man > himself. But, I am reliably informed by an ex-chairman of the RNIB (a > fine tenor) that it really is too much trouble to use because it is a) > verbose b) requires a spare hand that would otherwise be playing the > instrument and c) is made even more difficult when lyrics are > involved. > > So he learns his part, by ear, and just uses normalĀ braille for the > underlay.
I encounter a lot of music first as sheet music, developing my own artistic vision (or rather soundscape?) without ever having heard it first. While a Braille version would in most situations not allow for sight-reading, it should at least facilitate off-line study, either as only source of information or supplemental. Also I would imagine that learning by ear is pretty tricky for ensemble rather than solo work. Availability is likely not favoring Braille currently: you are probably only likely to find Braille renditions for music that is "important" enough that recordings are plentiful. I have no idea whether LilyPond could make a difference here if Braille renditions "just fell out" in a manner similar to how Midi renditions are done. I don't know whether Braille distinguishes cis and des: if it does, that would likely be the major stumbling block against just using a computer-generated Midi as the starting point for Braille generation. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user