Braille music
Musicografía Braille
- Date
- 1829 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Louis Braille
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
An adaptation of the Braille system to musical notation using the same six-dot cell, with its own syntax and abbreviations, devised by Louis Braille so blind musicians could read scores independently.
What it led to
- independent access to musical scores for blind musicians
- international standardization of braille music notation
- the world's largest braille music collection at the US Library of Congress
- integration into specialized music education for the blind