[DG: Open Forum] Music Notation Display and Entry

[John Diehl]

Alan,

Thank you for your response.  I have looked at Noteflight.  It is a
comprehensive application for music composition and arrangement.  While it
is an excellent product for composition, it is more for composers and
sharing of musical scores than for teaching entry level music reading
basics.  In a way, it is both too much and too little.  Perhaps an example
would help.

An example lesson would allow the instructor to require the student to
enter a series of major and minor 2nd, 3rd and 4th intervals.  These
intervals would be generated dynamically by the application.  The student
would enter the notes on a staff and be able to hear them played.  Ideally,
the instructor could specify whether inversions are used, accidentals are
required and a range of key signatures.  The student would be scored on
which intervals were entered correctly, and given feedback on errors.

The Music Theory Skill Builder, a Moodle based tutoring and assessment
module used at the Oxford School of Music, does much of this already.
Unfortunately, in my discussions with Oxford they have so far been unable
or unwilling to make it available as an LTI Producer.  Hence my search for
a Sakai based solution.


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:

>  BasicLTI allows you to use external tools as if they are internal in
> Sakai CLE. One example is noteflight:
>
>
> http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2010/06/noteflight-as-a-ims-basic-lti-producer-cool-demonstration/
>
>
> Regards,
>            Alan
>
>
> Alan Berg
>
> Innovation working group
> On the use of ICT in Education & Research
> University of Amsterdam
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> *Subject:* [DG: Open Forum] Music Notation Display and Entry
>
>    Sakai Community,
>
>  I am new to the Sakai community, and searching for components needed to
> allow both display and student entry of basic music notation in lessons and
> assessments.  I am working with the School of Music Theater and Dance at
> the University of Michigan, where we hope to develop a remedial tutoring
> system for entering freshmen.  The Sakai based examples I have seen at U of
> M can only display screen capture images of music, with student responses
> limited to clicking buttons for notes and other music notation elements.
>
>  I am looking for a Sakai module which provides some or all of the
> following:
>
>    - Generating music on a staff based on teacher defined criteria;
>    single notes, intervals, chords, scales.
>    - Interactive student entry of notes on a staff; single notes,
>    intervals, chords and scales.
>    - Generating musical tones together with the notes either displayed or
>    entered, as above.
>
>   I have found other learning management systems and third party products
> which do all of this, and more.  Is anyone aware of such a module for
> Sakai?
>
>  --
> John R Diehl
> Business Analyst
> ITS & School of Music Theater and Dance
>



-- 
John R Diehl
Business Analyst
ITS & School of Music Theater and Dance
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