New International Manual
of Braille Music Notation

TABLES

Table 1: Basic Signs

Table 3: Accidentals, Key
and Time signatures

Table 4: Rythmic Groups

Table 5: Chords

Table 6: Slurs and Ties

Table 7: Tremolos

Table 8: Fingering

Table 9: Bar lines and repeats

Table 10: Nuances

Table 11: Ornaments

Table 12: Theory

Table 13: Modern Notation

Table 14: General Organization

Table 15: Keyboard Music

Table 16: Vocal Music

Table 17: String Instruments

Table 18: Winds & Percussion

Table 19: Accordion

Other Resources

Contact instructor

Send mail to class

Contractions Lookup

Contractions List

Intro Braille course

Transcribers course

Table 14

GENERAL ORGANIZATION

, ' Prefix for music; music parentheses

; 2 Prefix for literary material such as vocal text,

instructions, or other literary information

; 2 Coincidence of notes in more than one part

" Hyphen for unfinished measure

" Prefix for added signs in braille

" 3 Prefix for print pagination or print page turn

" l Prefix for music for editorial markings

> 5 Music asterisk

7 Equals sign in a metronome marking

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