1. Pedagogical Aspects – Braille Services at DZB Leipzig Matthias Leopold DaCapo

2. Overview DaCapo Services Individual notes for novices Supporting teachers MakeBraille Internet Services

3. DaCapo Services Production of instrumental schoolbooks –Schoolbooks for piano, organ, flute, clarinet, guitar –Collections for lessons MakeBraille Teaching Braille

4. Key to Symbols and Filtering Key to symbols can be automatically placed below the scores 4 grades Filtering notes for: –Fingering, dynamics, slurs, ornaments, … –Repeats, simile, doublings, … Goal: –Learning Braille as well as Braille scores step by step

5. Visualization

6. MakeBraille – Quick and „Dirty“ Call for quick transcription (within a few days or even hours) Many orders, mostly a few pages Service via E-Mail: No proof reading, no process, no printing, no binding, no shipping Payment once per year Publication to others possible The notes are nearly 100% perfect with respect to the needs of a blind musician

7. MakeBraille – Internet Server http://www.dzb.de/MakeBraille.html

8. MakeBraille – Server (2) http://www.dzb.de/MakeBraille.html

9. MakeBraille – Server (3) http://www.dzb.de/MakeBraille.html

10. MakeBraille – Server Configuration Output Format (vocal extracts…) Key to the symbols Filtering (also repeats, simile and doublings) Paper width Encoding Country http://www.dzb.de/MakeBraille.html

11. BrailleVis – Internet Server http://www.dzb.de/BrailleVis.html

13. BrailleVis – Server Configuration http://www.dzb.de/BrailleVis.html Paper format (A5, A4 or A3), Landscape System size Input Mode (File dialog vs. text field) Size of text field Output format: –PDF –MusicXML –Audit file

14. BraillePlayer – Internet Server http://www.dzb.de/BraillePlayer.html

15. BraillePlayer – Server Configuration http://www.dzb.de/BraillePlayer.html Rendering options (dynamics, piano sound only, …) Input Mode (File dialog vs. text field) Size of text field Output format: –Midi –Audit file