Be Like the HUMMINGbird! – Braille Refreshers 2024073102

* In September, we celebrate cooler temperatures, the start of a new school year, the coming of autumn, and … hummingbirds! Did you know that September 2nd is National Hummingbird Day? Fun fact: Hummingbirds have amazing memories.

Be like the hummingbird! Use your amazing memory to remember all the rules for octave marks in Music Braille.

Which option below tells how to use octave signs correctly for intervals of fourths and fifths?

An "octave" is a group of eight musical notes, and an "interval" is the distance between two notes. In Music Braille, the size of an interval determines whether the second note in the interval needs an octave mark before it (see §7 in Introduction to Music Braille, 3rd Edition, especially §7.3, for more information about octave signs). An interval of a fourth is the distance of four notes (i.e., C up to F – C, D, E, F) and an interval of a fifth is the distance of five notes (i.e., G down to C – G, F, E, D, C). For the purposes of Music Braille octave signs, an octave begins on C and ends on the B above it.