Kathleen
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This is indeed a very odd diagram. It's not like any fingering chart I've come across. I might try and do some sort of tactile representation or something. Or use a full cell for dark circles and dots 1346 for an open circle.
Kathleen
That's a new one for me. I'm not sure what the print is asking for, so I would follow print exactly as it appears. I'd most likely omit the empty staff and just make it a list.
I think that is a transcriber choice. I generally do not use the superscript indicator. I just braille "Io"
I don't use the small circle or degree sign since, yes. It is the letter o and not a zero or just a circle.
Oh that's a very good question. That has been left off the list. I consider it akin to an ornament. Something that affects the way we play the note or approach the note. So I would put it before a nuance but after a down-bow or mute sign. If there is an ornament as well, I would put the shape sign before the ornament.
Hi Anna,
I'm curious as to why you think you couldn't do the chords with bar-over-bar format. That is how I would approach it. Take the guidance from the Section 29.17 in MBC2015. Chord symbols can easily go beneath the parallel.
Hope that helps!
Kathleen
The proper order would be:
word-sign expression - position - up bow - octave indicator - note - fingering
Check out the new DeGarmo Introduction to Braille Music 3rd edition for a nice new updated General Order of Signs in the Appendix.
Available here: https://nfb.org/programs-services/braille-certification/music-braille-transcribing
Sorry I don't think the simbraille worked for some reason. Here's a pdf of the braille Mr Owens sent per your question.
Hi Robert,
Here is the response from Mr. Owens:
Yes plectrum strokes can be doubled as in MBC.
However in the example used the alignment should appear as below:
#G C--D-EL L EMDL- L EL-FM-
<B<B?? ? ? L ? ?N L ?? ??
,G ,C ,G
#AJ FLE-FMDL
? ? ? ?@C
,D ,G
If you look at examples 9.lj & k you'll see an example of proper alignment. Example 9.11 has an error as the lines of the parallel should be shifted 1 space to the right.
Also notice that at the end of measure 10 there is a slide rather than a shift. Which slide you use depends on whether you're sliding into another note, plucking or not plucking the 2nd note or sliding out of a note.
These are the sort of things we need to look at for further explanation so I welcome any questions and/or suggestions in order to make this as clear as possible.
I just replied to your other post about tablature! If you want to use the new system just published, you can find it under the Resources tab above. Be sure to discuss it with your client and give them access to the Code as well, so they know how to read it once you've transcribed it.
Under the Resources tab above, you can download the new Owens System of Braille Tablature if you would like to use it for your tablature transcription!
Be certain that you send your client a link to the document as well, so that they will know how to read it. Also be sure YOU understand it well enough to transcribe it well!
Hi Robert,
I would not do it as you've done in the example. Single-line format should be single-line, not two lines like that. I would just braille it as you would any other piece. Intervals are read upward in the bass clef, so when the octave intervals begin, you'd braille the 2nd octave G with a doubled octave interval after it. The directions tell the reader what they need to know. No reason to add parentheses that aren't there in print or make it more complicated than it needs to be!
Quite honestly, I have no idea to what these numbers are referring. Is there any guidance from the text? Preface material? Is this a method book?
I think the way you have handled it is pretty good. The only thing different you need to do is precede the negative numbers with a word sign indicator. Otherwise they don't read as numbers, but as some strange combination of intervals. I also don't think you need all the music asterisks nor the music parentheses. One TN at the first instance would suffice, explaining how you are treating the numbers. After that, they should be aware of them as they come along. But you definitely need the word sign indicators before each one.
Hope that helps!
Kathleen
Hi Robert,
It appears as though the Xs are marking places where the parts cross - in the first example, the baritone sings below the bass at the Xs. In the second, the tenor sings below the lead.
How you transcribe that is up to you - but I would probably place the x as a word-sign expression before each note above which it is printed. Unless it's indicated in the score that that's exactly what the Xs are there for, you don't have to explain them. But do put in a TN saying how you are transcribing the Xs.
Kathleen
