Copy the link in to Fire Fox. You will be able to open it in Microsoft word.
You can read it from there. That is what I did. I enjoyed the article. I
remember learning Braille music, from a very fine blind music teacher. When I
was a child. She would always ask us whether we might want to play for the New
York Metropolitan Opera. As I grew older, I believed that might have been a
dream she had. Which was never fulfilled.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Foxworth
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 10:00 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Fw: WBU Press Release: The Importance of Braille
Literacy
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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Behalf Of Bill McCann
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 5:13 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
