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Music for the masses
Reading music scores is not an easy task for blind people because the scores are either limited in number or difficult to get a hold of. An EU-funded team
of researchers, however, has designed and developed a demonstrative service that enables blind musicians to access and use Braille music scores that are
found in libraries and transcription centres. The CONTRAPUNCTUS ('Preservations and unification of new and existing Braille Music digital scores for a
new access methodology') project received almost EUR 4 million under the 'Information society technologies' (IST) Thematic area of the Sixth Framework
Programme (FP6).
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