Multiliteracies in Music Education

Computers in Music Education

This paper provides a survey of the applications of computers in music teaching. The systems are classified by musical activity rather than by technical approach. The instructional strategies involved and the type of knowledge represented are highlighted and areas for future research are identified.

Computers in Music Education

Body Music Courses within Music Education

The aim of the paper is to introduce and suggest Body Music as a significant part of music education that gives the possibility to approach music as a play of sounds and silence, from its very beginning in human life at which body was the only source of sound making, before humans created musical instruments and styles. Thus what “music” and “style” mean is briefly explained in the first part. ...

Music Information Retrieval Meets Music Education

This paper addresses the use of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) techniques in music education and their integration in learning software. A general overview of systems that are either commercially available or in research stage is presented. Furthermore, three well-known MIR methods used in music learning systems and their state-of-the-art are described: music transcription, solo and accompan...

Towards a metalanguage for multiliteracies education: Describing the meaning- making resources of language-image interaction

The increasingly integrative use of images with language in many different types of texts in electronic and paper media has created an urgent need to go beyond logocentric accounts of literacy and literacy pedagogy. Correspondingly there is a need to augment the genre, grammar and discourse descriptions of verbal text as resources for literacy pedagogy to include descriptions of the meaning-mak...