Music Braille Code, 2015

Music Braille Code, 2015

MUSIC BRAILLE CODE, 2015 Developed Under the Sponsorship of the BRAILLE AUTHORITY OF NORTH AMERICA Published by The Braille Authority of North America ©2016 by the Braille Authority of North America All rights reserved. This material may be duplicated but not altered or sold. ISBN: 978-0-9859473-6-1 (Print) ISBN: 978-0-9859473-7-8 (Braille) Printed by the American Printing House for the Blind. Copies may be purchased from: American Printing House for the Blind 1839 Frankfort Avenue Louisville, Kentucky 40206-3148 502-895-2405 • 800-223-1839 www.aph.org [email protected] Catalog Number: 7-09651-01 The mission and purpose of The Braille Authority of North America are to assure literacy for tactile readers through the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics. BANA promotes and facilitates the use, teaching, and production of braille. It publishes rules, interprets, and renders opinions pertaining to braille in all existing codes. It deals with codes now in existence or to be developed in the future, in collaboration with other countries using English braille. In exercising its function and authority, BANA considers the effects of its decisions on other existing braille codes and formats, the ease of production by various methods, and acceptability to readers. For more information and resources, visit www.brailleauthority.org. ii BANA Music Technical Committee, 2015 Lawrence R. Smith, Chairman Karin Auckenthaler Gilbert Busch Karen Gearreald Dan Geminder Beverly McKenney Harvey Miller Tom Ridgeway Other Contributors Christina Davidson, BANA Music Technical Committee Consultant Richard Taesch, BANA Music Technical Committee Consultant Roger Firman, International Consultant Ruth Rozen, BANA Board Liaison iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................... xvii PREFACE ............................................................................... xviii FOREWORD TO THE MANUAL OF BRAILLE MUSIC NOTATION, AMERICAN EDITION, 1988 .............................................. xix SUMMARY OF RULE CHANGES .................................................... xxi TABLES OF SIGNS .................................................................... 1 BASIC SIGNS............................................................................. 2 Table 1. General Signs ............................................................. 2 Table 2. Notes and Note Values ................................................. 3 Table 3. Octave Marks ............................................................. 4 Table 4. Clef Signs .................................................................. 4 Table 5. Rests ........................................................................ 5 Table 6. Accidentals and Key Signatures ..................................... 5 Table 7. Meter Indications and Time Devices ............................... 6 Table 8. Irregular Note Grouping ............................................... 6 Table 9. Intervals ................................................................... 7 Table 10. The Tie .................................................................... 7 Table 11. In-Accord and Measure-Division Signs .......................... 8 Table 12. Stem Signs .............................................................. 8 Table 13. The Slur .................................................................. 9 Table 14. Tremolo ................................................................ 10 Table 15. Fingerings .............................................................. 11 Table 16. Ornaments ............................................................. 12 Table 17. Print Repeats .......................................................... 15 iv Table 18. Braille Full- and Part-Measure Repeats, Parallel Movement, and Sequence Abbreviation ............................. 15 Table 19. Braille Numeral Repeats ........................................... 16 Table 20. Da Capo and Dal Segno Repeats ................................ 16 Table 21. Annotations and Variants ......................................... 16 Table 22. Nuances ................................................................ 17 Table 23. Chord Symbols ....................................................... 20 SIGNS FOR INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ............................................. 21 Table 24. String Instruments .................................................. 21 Table 25. Keyboard Instruments ............................................. 24 Table 26. Figured Bass and Harmonic Analysis .......................... 25 Table 27. Harps .................................................................... 26 Table 28. Accordions ............................................................. 27 Table 29. Abbreviations for Instrument Names .......................... 28 Table 30. Wind Instruments and Percussion .............................. 32 SIGNS FOR VOCAL MUSIC ......................................................... 33 Table 31. Signs in Music Lines ................................................. 33 Table 32. Signs in Word Lines ................................................. 34 SIGNS FOR METHODS NOT IN USE BY BANA ................................ 35 Table 33. Section-by-Section .................................................. 35 Table 34. Vertical Score and Bar-by-Bar ................................... 35 Table 35. Substitution ........................................................... 35 Table 36. Note-for-Note ......................................................... 35 PART I. BASIC SIGNS ............................................................ 36 1. GENERAL PROCEDURES AND SIGNS ........................................ 36 1.1. Facsimile and Nonfacsimile Transcription ............................ 36 1.2. Use of English Contractions .............................................. 36 v 1.3. Parentheses ................................................................... 37 1.4. Preliminary Pages ........................................................... 37 1.5. Pagination of Music Pages ................................................ 38 1.6. The Page Heading ........................................................... 40 1.7. The Music Heading .......................................................... 40 1.8. Metronome Indications .................................................... 41 1.9. Prefix for Transcriber-Added Signs .................................... 43 1.10. Bar Lines ..................................................................... 43 1.11. The Braille Music Hyphen ............................................... 45 1.12. Doubling of Signs ......................................................... 45 1.13. Print Brackets .............................................................. 45 1.14. Coincidence of Notes in More Than One Part ..................... 46 1.15. Errors in Print Music ...................................................... 47 1.16. Music Notation in Literary Context ................................... 47 1.17. Placement of Copyright Notices in Anthologies ................... 48 2. NOTES AND NOTE VALUES ..................................................... 49 2.1. Note Names and Values ................................................... 49 2.2. Alternative Signs for Double Whole Note ............................ 49 2.3. Dotted Notes ................................................................. 49 2.4. Larger and Smaller Value Signs ........................................ 50 2.5. Specially Shaped Notes ................................................... 51 2.6. Proportional Notation ...................................................... 52 3. OCTAVE SIGNS .................................................................... 53 3.1. The Octaves .................................................................. 53 3.2. Rules for Octave Marks .................................................... 53 3.3. 8va and 15ma ................................................................ 54 4. CLEF SIGNS ......................................................................... 56 vi 4.1. Clef Signs Limited to Facsimile Transcriptions ..................... 56 4.2. Octave Marks and Dot-3 Separators .................................. 56 4.3. Staff Line Given with Clef Sign .......................................... 56 4.4. Clef Signs with Ottavas ................................................... 56 4.5. Modified Clef Signs ......................................................... 57 5. RESTS ................................................................................ 58 5.1. Rest Signs ..................................................................... 58 5.2. Transcriber-Added Rests .................................................. 58 5.3. Multiple-Measure Rests .................................................... 58 5.4. Dotted Rests .................................................................. 59 6. ACCIDENTALS AND KEY SIGNATURES ...................................... 60 6.1. Placement of Accidentals ................................................. 60 6.2. Restating Accidentals ...................................................... 60 6.3. Quarter-Tone Accidentals ................................................. 61 6.4. Accidental Signs in Literary Context .................................. 61 6.5. Key Signatures............................................................... 61 7. METER INDICATIONS AND TIME DEVICES ................................ 63 7.1.

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