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Table 1: Basic Signs

Table 2: Clefs

Table 3: Accidentals, Key
and Time signatures

Table 4: Rythmic Groups

Table 5: Chords

Table 6: Slurs and Ties

Table 7: Tremolos

Table 8: Fingering

Table 9: Bar lines and repeats

Table 10: Nuances

Table 11: Ornaments

Table 12: Theory

Table 13: Modern Notation

Table 14: General Organization

Table 15: Keyboard Music

Table 16: Vocal Music

Table 17: String Instruments

Table 18: Winds & Percussion

Other Resources

Table 15: Keyboard Music

A. Piano

.> Right hand part

_ > Left hand part

" > Solo part to be accompanied

. > > Right hand part when intervals read up

_ > > Left hand part when intervals read down

< c Ped. or other indication for pedal down

* c Star or other indication for pedal up

* < c Star and Ped. under one note

" < c Half-pedal

" * c Pedal up as soon as chord is struck

B. Organ

^ > Organ pedal part

^ > _ > Start of passage when pedal and left hand parts are written on same print staff

@ > Return to left hand only; pedal drops out

a Left toe (wedge ^ beneath a note)

b Left heel (u or o beneath a note)

l Right toe (wedge ^ above a note)

1 Right heel (u or o above a note)

c Between foot signs, change of pedalling on one note

k Change without indication of toe or heel

@ k Foot crosses in front (dash _ above tow or heel sign)

, k Foot crosses behind (dash _ Beneath toe or heel sign)

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New International Manual of Braille Music Notation

Table 15: Keyboard Music

New International Manual
of Braille Music Notation