Learn braille with us
Training
Videos, reference tools and interactive lessons from the European project MuVIe, to learn braille and braille music. Free, accessible and ready to use.
Watch
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Video guides: the history of writing for blind people
Nine short videos from the MuVIe project: from the first books in relief to Louis Braille's six-dot cell and how braille works today.
Look up
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Index of braille music signs
More than 550 braille music signs and their meaning, from the international manuals. Search by dots or by description, with examples in braille and print.
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Music glossary
More than 110 music terms explained simply, from accent to whole note, with examples in music notation.
Practise
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Lesson 1 · The braille cell and the alphabet
Learn the six dots and the series of the alphabet by writing with six keys of the computer keyboard, like a Perkins braille writer. Numbers and punctuation too.
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Lesson 2 · Notes, rests and octaves
Braille music step by step: notes and rests, durations, the augmentation dot, octave marks and accidentals. See what you write on the staff and hear it.