Music for castanets written in Braille for the first time – ONCE website

The presentation of the score took place at the SBO headquarters and was attended by Carmen Bayarri, Director of the Bibliographic Services of ONCE; Barbara Martin, Vice-President of the European Blind Union and Head of Coordination of Institutional Agreements and External Cooperation at ONCE; and Teresa Leise, composer of the score. They emphasized that “this score will be available to all blind and visually impaired people who love and want to study castanets, in addition to all other scores and braille texts available under the Marrakesh Treaty.”

This first braille score is based on Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067: Badinerie, a “relatively simple” adaptation of castanets with easily recognizable quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes and rests. , as well as posticeos and mounds, exclusive touches of castanets,” explains the concert pianist.

All these features have been captured in Braille by the ONCE Bibliographic Service so that they can be accessed by a visually impaired person.

Teresa Laiz (Madrid, 1966), dancer, teacher, composer and performer of castanet concertos, she studied with such great masters as Victor Ullate, Rafael de Cordoba and Farruquito. Soloist of Castanet, he has given various concerts nationally and internationally. She is the founder of the International Castanets Festival and the author of Therese Lyse’s Castanets Method, Volume 1, to which this score belongs.

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He ONCE Bibliographic Service(a new window will open) It processes approximately 50,000 applications submitted by blind people each year. To give them an outlet, he adapts 1,000,000 pages of handwritten books and transcribes about 3,000 short works, including notes and exams for students.

In total, more than 7 million pages are printed in Braille each year, more than 120,000 audio CDs are copied, and more than 8,000 reliefs are produced.

All of these works are easily accessible to ONCE-affiliated people who are blind or visually impaired through the ONCE Digital Library, which contains over 80,000 reading works in a variety of formats (Braille and audio).

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musicology(a new window will open) or Braille signature is a reading and writing system that is used to write and read musical notation. From the ONCE bibliographic service, all scores and music resources that blind and visually impaired people may need are transcribed into this system. There are currently 3,500 braille scores in existence.

SBO receives these requests from school or conservatory materials or many different pieces of music for free time listening, and they are transcribed so that the music is accessible and can be enjoyed by everyone.