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braille-scores home Gregorian chant and
braille Geert Maessen, Transcription of Gregorian Chant
in Braille, Amsterdam 2002
This booklet gives a summary of the
existing methods for transcribing gregorian chant into braille and gives an
alternative to process the achievements of the semiological movement into the
braille music score. Above the booklet can be downloaded in print as a
pdf-file. In brailleprint it can be ordered at Dedicon, the former FNB
(two braille volumes and one volume with tactile graphics). An older dutch
version is available at Anderslezen. For the music examples a
braillebar is necessary. From the 2nd till the 4th of October
2002 in Marburg an international workshop was given about gregorian chant and
braille, in search of a standard for transcribing chant into braille. The
participants were: Ulrich Mayer-Uhma (Germany), Bettye Krolick (USA), Bernard
Morin (France), Christian Waldvogel and Lia Cariboni (Switzerland), Claire
Gailans and John Armstrong (United Kingdom) and Geert Maessen (the Netherlands).
There this booklet was one of the most important pieces to discuss. Although
on some points there were different opinions, the booklet has been launched
as the standard for transcribing chant into braille. At the international
conference on braillemusic from the 23rd till the 25th of September 2004 in
Zürich this was once more confirmed, although for simpler liturgical chants
an alternative was presented by Barbara Williams from Melbourne. Five chant masses
(Vijf Gregoriaanse Missen) Based on the older dutch text of Transcription of Gregorian Chant in
Braille in 2001 I transcribed in three different ways five gregorian
masses: of Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Whitsun and the Requiem. It concerns
the proper chants according to Graduale
triplex and Offertoriale triplex,
with all associated offertory verses. Vijf Gregoriaanse Missen can be
ordered as brailleprint (nine vomules) at Dedicon. For the
contents of Vijf Gregoriaanse Missen
have a look at: Preface
and Contents. Braille Music
Notation For a general introduction to braille
music notation see: Bettye Krolick, How to Read Braille Music: An Introduction, Second Edition, 1998;
in 2003 translated in dutch by FNB as: Inleiding tot het lezen van het
Braille Muziekschrift The international standard on braille
music notation is: Bettye Krolick, New International Manual of Braille Music Notation, Amsterdam
1996
This book is available: - on the internet: http://www.brl.org/music/index.html - as CD-ROM; from Opus Technologies: http://www.opustec.com/products/newintl/newCD.html - as a book (272 pp); at: Dedicon - as braille books; at: Braille Press
Zurich, Albisriederstrasse 400, CH-8047 Zürich, Switzerland or Dedicon |
