Music Trouble: Desire, Discourse, Education

Embodied Music Cognition: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

These are interesting times for the Embodied Music Cognition (EMC) framework. Briefly summarized, EMC relies upon the hypothesis that embodied sensorimotor engagement is essential to both production and perception of music (Leman, 2008; Leman and Maes, 2014). This hypothesis, while suitable for accommodating different research methods used in empirical musicology (Godøy and Leman, 2010), may be...

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...

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.

Comparative Music Education