Hi Ann,
If you click on (or paste into your browser) and open it, you may have to take
it out of protected view to read it. (That’s what I had to do.)
Good article, Bill.
Jeanne
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Bill, I would love to read your article; however, when I activated the link, I
was taken to an empty document. I don’t know if the list accepts attachments or
links, but I really would like to access your article.
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: Fw: WBU Press Release: The Importance of Braille Literacy
This thread inspired me to share a bit from an article I composed in late 2008
about our Professor Braille and his code. I wrote it in anticipation of the
celebration of the bicentenary of his birth. I believe it was published in the
January, 2009, issue of a periodical called The Educator, a quarterly journal
from the International Council for the Education of the Visually Impaired
(ICEVI).
I hope you enjoy reading it. Please pass it on as appropriate. You may
download the entire article from the link below. If you do re-publish it,
please do so in its entirety with attribution to its author:
…
Braille: The Man and His Code for Music
By William R. McCann
The song is ended,
But the melody lingers on.
You and the song are gone,
But the melody lingers on.
These words of Irving Berlin were written about bringing an old love to mind.
But we can apply them aptly to the important work of a genuine hero of the
blind, Le Professeur Louis Braille. As we approach the bicentenary of his
birth, it is a fitting time to pay homage to his memory and to his enduring
legacy.
It is my privilege and my aim in this article to acquaint the reader with an
aspect of Braille’s work that too often has been overlooked. I try to give a
relatively nontechnical description of his system for music notation and
propose that it is still relevant in our time.
The Man Himself
…
Full text of the article at:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26996884/Braille%20and%20His%20Music%20Code.doc
Happy Louis Braille Day!
Bill
