Why Visual Music Scores Might Be a Good Fit For Autistic Music Students | Continuum Approach
Published: January 5, 2026
Duration: 7:39
From the new Book The Continuum Approach to Music: Building: A Pedagogical Framework for Musical Learning (The Continuum Music Framework™ Part 2) Playing the Line, without reading note.
When we remove notes, bars, and instructions, something unexpected happens: musicians begin to listen again and to simultaneously express themselves musically without prior knowlege of music score reading. This is extremely liberating, great fun, and by default highly creative.
A line score, or image score, does not tell a performer what to play. It offers a direction of movement and asks the body to decide how sound should travel. The...
When we remove notes, bars, and instructions, something unexpected happens: musicians begin to listen again and to simultaneously express themselves musically without prior knowlege of music score reading. This is extremely liberating, great fun, and by default highly creative.
A line score, or image score, does not tell a performer what to play. It offers a direction of movement and asks the body to decide how sound should travel. The...