Title:	AN IMPRESSION-ORIENTED MUSIC COURSEWARE AND ITS APPLICATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Author(s):	Shiori Sasaki , Kiku Watagoshi , Kosuke Takano , Kazuo Hirashima , Yasushi Kiyoki
ISBN:	978-972-8939-07-6
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2010
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Audio-Visual Information Processing, Music Courseware, Learning Support System, Kansei Retrieval Engine, Multimedia Database
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	11
Last Page:	19
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper presents a music courseware with a music search system using keywords of impressions and its application for “Kansei (sensibility)” development for elementary and junior high school students. The keywords of impressions used in this courseware are extracted automatically from the musical elements such as key, rhythm, tempo, pitch, melody, and harmony. The objectives of this courseware are (1) to cultivate children’s sensitiveness for the mood of music, (2) to encourage children’s understanding for the effect of tonality for the mood of music, and (3) to enhance their capabilities of appreciation and expression of music, by the activities of searching, selecting and listening with the information of musical impression. The courseware is also created with the intention of supporting the teachers who do not specialize in music education. The main feature of this courseware is to apply a multimedia database technology treating “Kansei” to music education, and enable students to understand the mood and structure of music with objectivity. This courseware consists of the combinations of the following 3 components: (A) a semantic associative search engine which enables users to retrieve media data related to impression keywords given by users, (B) interfaces and tools for music retrieval and learning which support users to learn the mood of music in easy-to-understand formats according to basic music lecture scenarios, and (C) basic music lecture scenarios which are designed and created by the teachers of elementary schools in a practical manner to encourage students’ understandings of tonality and the mood of music.
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