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- Title
Lire et écrire la musique sans voir: Genèse d'une notation musicale pour les personnes aveugles de Valentin Haüy à Louis Braille.
- Authors
Durand, Sébastien
- Abstract
In his Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles (1786), Valentin Haüy demonstrates the progress for blind people represented by the development of braille musical scores. The ability to access a musical score without having to commit it to memory via to dictation by a third party, represented a significant step towards independence and creativity for blind musicians. However, the journey towards autonomous musical reading and writing was be a long one. Several different systems were tested in Paris from the end of the eighteenth century (at the Quinze-Vingts and the Royal Institution for the Young Blind), with varied success until Louis Braille developed a truly revolutionary solution in the second edition of his Procédé pour écrire les paroles, la musique et le plain-chant (1837). This article will study the various stages of this evolution through the analysis of those blind musicians who played an active part in the elaboration of this creative and innovative process which radically transformed the relationship between blindness and musical performance.
- Subjects
MUSICAL ability; MUSIC scores; MUSICAL performance; BLIND people; BRAILLE; ROYAL Institution of Great Britain
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 6, p65
- ISSN
1929-9192
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15353/cjds.v8i6.580