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Composer Joaquin Rodrigo wrote his music in braille - but what is braille music?
Joaquin Rodrigo was one composer who was blind, but wrote his music in braille, which was later transcribed into printed notation. But what exactly is braille, and specifically braille music ? Braille is a method of reading and writing for people who are blind in which raised dots represent letters of the alphabet. In Braille, each letter is represented by a particular arrangements of dots in a six-dot cell. Braille was developed in the early 1800s by Frenchman Louis Braille who lost his...
