Module basic 

One element of music in braille: music21’s braille.basic.

Each function answers a Transcription: the braille, and the English music21 writes beside it, one line a sign, which a segment’s debugging listing shows.

Structs

NoteContext

How a note stands among its neighbours, which a segment works out and the note’s braille shows: the attributes music21 sets on a note for the time it is transcribed.

Transcription

An element in braille, and the English music21 writes for it.

Functions

barline_to_braille

A barline: music21’s barlineToBraille. A barline of no braille sign is the sign of an untranscribable element.

braille_ascii_to_braille_unicode

Braille ASCII written as braille: music21’s brailleAsciiToBrailleUnicode.

braille_unicode_to_braille_ascii

Braille written as braille ASCII: music21’s brailleUnicodeToBrailleAscii.

braille_unicode_to_symbols

Braille drawn as dots, each cell two columns of three rows, filled and empty: music21’s brailleUnicodeToSymbols.

chord_to_braille

A chord, its lowest or highest note written in full and each other as the interval from it, octaves marked where they are needed: music21’s chordToBraille. The written note is a note of the chord’s length and nothing else, as music21 writes it.

clef_to_braille

A clef: music21’s clefToBraille. A treble or bass clef, and the clefs music21 derives from them, is written for the other hand when the keyboard’s hands are switched.

dynamic_to_braille

A dynamic as a word, after the word sign where asked: music21’s dynamicToBraille.

instrument_to_braille

An instrument’s best name, word by word: music21’s instrumentToBraille.

key_sig_to_braille

A key signature of so many sharps, after the naturals cancelling the one before it where one is given: music21’s keySigToBraille.

metronome_mark_to_braille

A metronome mark: its note value, the metronome sign and its number: music21’s metronomeMarkToBraille. A mark with no number is nothing, and says nothing in English.

note_to_braille

A note: its slurs and tuplet opening, articulations, accidental, octave where shown, name and value, dots, fingering, fermata, slur and tie: music21’s noteToBraille.

number_to_braille

A number in braille, its digits high or low, after the number sign where asked: music21’s numberToBraille.

pitch_to_octave

The octave sign of an octave, repeated past the ends: music21’s pitchToOctave.

rest_to_braille

A rest, a whole rest where it stands for its measure: music21’s restToBraille.

show_octave_with_note

Whether a note shows its octave after the one before: always after none, after a sixth or more, and after a fourth or fifth into another octave: music21’s showOctaveWithNote.

tempo_text_to_braille

Tempo words, phrase by comma-separated phrase, a line broken before a word that would run past the line less six, ending with a full stop: music21’s tempoTextToBraille.

tempo_to_braille

A tempo text: tempo_text_to_braille of its text.

text_expression_to_braille

Words written as text, after the word sign where asked and before another where there are several: music21’s textExpressionToBraille. The hairpin words have signs of their own.

time_sig_to_braille

A time signature, its numerator high and denominator low, or its common or cut sign: music21’s timeSigToBraille.

transcribe_heading

A heading: the tempo words above, then the metronome mark, key and time signature, each line centred: music21’s transcribeHeading.

transcribe_note_fingering

A note’s fingering: one finger, a change of finger as 1-2, or a choice of fingerings as 1,2 (either may be missing) or 1|2: music21’s transcribeNoteFingering.

transcribe_signatures

A key and time signature in braille, the key cancelling the one before where given: music21’s transcribeSignatures. Nothing for no time signature and a key of no sharps with nothing to cancel.

word_to_braille

A word in braille: music21’s wordToBraille. As text in the music a word is spelled letter by letter; otherwise capitals and digits take their signs, and a letter after a digit the letter sign. A letter with diacritics is written as the accent sign and the letter.

yield_dots

A dot for each row of a cell whose left dot is raised: music21’s yieldDots, which looks at the left column only.