[Robert Dietrich]

Hello Kathleen:

In passages with occasional notes without stems would it be better to lay them out as they appear visually (as in the example below), or would a transcriber’s note be better; something to the effect of “Notes inside music parentheses are duplicated one octave lower in print. The duplicated notes are not reproduced in braille.”, and enclose the duplicated notes in music parentheses?

 

Your guidance is appreciated,

Robert

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[Kathleen]

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!

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