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Karen,
I think I had better pass this question to a string player. I'll ask Ruth Rozen and have her reply directly to you with a copy to me. Then I can post her answer here for the benefit of anyone else who may be interested.
Larry
Kathleen,
As part of transcribing some textbooks, I think Heidi Lehmann has dealt with some of these pieces. You can contact her at heidi@bach2braille.com.
I think that some of these things that are entirely graphics cannot be rendered in braille. I don't know if anybody has tried them in tactiles.
Larry.
Dear Christina,
I'm sorry it has taken so long for me to get back to you.
With the "pedal is optional" marking, I'd put it in as a normal footnote where it appears in print, and show the pedal markings normally.
I'd move the Schnabel-type annotations to numbered references and give them in a special section headed "Editorial Remarks" at the end of each piece. You can say on the TN page that "Editorial remarks are given after each piece."
I hope this helps.
Larry
Yes. Like a word-sign expression, the following note requires an octave mark, and the position sign must be followed by dot 3 if the succeeding cell contains dot 1, 2 or 3.
Thanks for the good question, Kathleen. I know that Heidi answered it for you in a private message. I passed it along to her because she has much more experience brailling textbooks than I have. I'm posting her answer here so that others who are interested will get it. She suggested putting a dot 4 before a number hat has a caret printed above it.
Larry
Hi, "Georgia."
Fortunately this editor has been more consistent than many are.
Your decision to braille separate parts is the wise one.
In general, all dynamics, slurs and nuances apply to both parts. You may notice that when both notes are on one stem only one nuance mark is shown, but when there are two stems, the nuance is marked for each stem. There are occasional places where the parts have different articulations (measure 28 in Example A, for instance), even when the notes are on common stems. Such occurrences will be fairly rare.
I hope this helps. Let me know if other questions arise.
Cheers to you.
LarryHi, Victoria.
You can handle this in either of two ways. Since the note is given as a letter, you can use the FORMATS superscript device. If you think it would be clearer to the reader, you can use the music prefix, switch to music notation, and show the note with its appropriate octave mark. I'd favor the latter, because it's about music, not algebra.
Hi,
The sign for the x-shape (26, 12) is a prefix to the note. You can show the quarter note as whatever pitch it is written on. If there are four or more in a row, you can double the prefix by brailling the 12 cell twice. However, since a clap is not pitched, in this case I would use the prefix for a note of indeterminate pitch (26, 13). You will be correct whichever sign you choose to use.
Thanks for using Ask an Expert.
Kathleen,
I think there are three possibilities, in my order of preference:
1. Transcribe all text, omitting (with TNs simply saying "Picture omitted") the graphics, so that the reader knows where they are. Experience leads me to believe that print music does not translate well in tactiles.
2. Omit the graphics and the related text, assuming that the text descriptions are not useful without the pictures.
3. Decline the assignment.
It's your choice.
Cheers, Larry.
Hi, Kathleen,
Without seeing the score, I'm guessing that the x-head notes all look like quarter-notes, without flags or beams. To let the braille reader know that the number of them in a measure is not a mistake, I'd use the irregular-group sign, preceded by the transcriber-added dot 5. I think you can interpret the straight line as a "slur that does not end on a note," and use the "Let it ring" sign (dots 56, 14).
Cheers,
Larry
