Piano Learning Research Articles

Emotional discomforts in the piano learning process: a narrative inquiry

This paper presents narrative inquiry research carried out in São Paulo (Brazil) into the experiences of emotional discomfort generated during the piano learning process. This study addresses some of these discomforts and the narratives that shape them and give them meaning. Narrative Inquiry in Music Education (Barrett & Stauffer, 2009) offered the supporting basis to adopt narrative inquiry as the methodology (Clandinin, 2006, 2007, 2013; Clandinin & Connelly, 1990, 2000). We understand that lived experiences may cause memories, and that negative memories may hinder the experiences and performance of the student pianist (Osborne & Kenny, 2008). In order to undertake narrative inquiry, a group comprised of the researcher and 9 volunteer pianists met 23 times throughout 2018. Along the encounters, the participants told and retold their stories, discussed proposed subjects, and played the piano when, and how they wished. Methodologically, experiences of the participants were shared both orally and in written form. Each participant also wrote three individual narratives, following Irving Seidman's proposal (2006). The volunteers participated in the construction of the drafts and final text. As the researcher read and reread the narratives, she noted feelings of inadequacy, overload, frustration, and dissatisfaction due to constant comparison, loneliness, performance anxiety, injustice, and incomprehension on the part of teachers, colleagues, friends and relatives. Competitiveness emerged as a common denominator that caused these issues. The final discussion promoted a questioning of competitiveness in the piano teaching system in music schools.

Research on the Development Status of Adult Piano Based on Online Education—Take Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province as An Example

The research in Wucheng District, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, for example, online education for adult piano development survey of investigation and study, and in-depth analysis from multiple angles, multiple aspects: conditions for the development of adult piano education both at home and abroad research status at home and abroad, adult piano learning platform of mobile learning the importance of the status quo of the research background, in order to understand the adult piano online learning situation, In order to improve the efficiency of adult piano online learning, three different research methods were used, namely, field observation, interview and questionnaire. This study combined with the results of the questionnaire survey for overall analysis, the final results and put forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.

Comprehensive Evaluation System for Realizing the Ability of University Piano Teaching

Students benefit from teacher’s action during education in a variety of subjects. Identifying the need for a better understanding of the influence of various presentation types at different levels of student proficiency is extremely important. Moreover, these skills are also important to any technique of learning piano in a school environment. The significance of music in the school’s curriculum, new concepts for teaching music in the school, and new ideas for teaching piano were among them. This study focuses on a teaching environment and piano learning in which beginning and advanced piano students study to produce a particular style of staccato in three types of group instruction scenarios. The musical difficulty is only demonstrated through audio and observation of the teacher’s action performance. The comprehensive ability evaluation system for piano teaching can, to a certain extent, evaluate and sort the ability of college piano teaching. Therefore, this paper utilizes the attribute method in combination with instant analysis which provides seven attribute indicators. The approach is reasonable, and evaluating characteristics such as the level of the school’s teaching plan set and related psychological weights may well be revised as necessary to address users’ requirements. After completely integrating the qualities of the school and comprehensively examining various contributing factors, the students’ learning quality in different grades or the same grade of colleges and universities may be determined. A comparison against the existing schemes can effectively represent the school’s overall teaching level.

Evidence of cortical thickness increases in bilateral auditory brain structures following piano learning in older adults.

Morphological differences in the auditory brain of musicians compared to nonmusicians are often associated with life-long musical activity. Cross-sectional studies, however, do not allow for any causal inferences, and most experimental studies testing music-driven adaptations investigated children. Although the importance of the age at which musical training begins is widely recognized to impact neuroplasticity, there have been few longitudinal studies examining music-related changes in the brains of older adults. Using magnetic resonance imaging, we measured cortical thickness (CT) of 12 auditory-related regions of interest before and after 6 months of musical instruction in 134 healthy, right-handed, normal-hearing, musically-naive older adults (64-76 years old). Prior to the study, all participants were randomly assigned to either piano training or to a musical culture/music listening group. In five regions-left Heschl's gyrus, left planum polare, bilateral superior temporal sulcus, and right Heschl's sulcus-we found an increase in CT in the piano training group compared with the musical culture group. Furthermore, CT of the right Heschl's gyrus could be identified as a morphological substrate supporting speech in noise perception. The results support the conclusion that playing an instrument is an effective stimulator for cortical plasticity, even in older adults.

University Piano Education Visualization System under the Background of Distance Education Based on 5G Network

University piano education online learning courses supplement learning and have quickly advanced distance education and the essence of improving Internet innovation. Experts of piano education visualization system and distance piano education visualization system are a world specification, which offers various university and online open-source courses, for those who seek an online expert for piano education events. The individual online piano learning course is another choice for learning the education visualization system via progressive Internet correspondence. Past techniques depend on the profound learning piano education system courses of learning and information mining distance education. Existing strategies present specialized difficulties, which include the difficulty of the piano learning via an online network. As such, this study aims to establish a university piano education visualization system framework via a distance education background utilizing the fifth-generation (5G) network; the distance education learning for piano education visualization system course using the 5G network is proposed. The remote sensor shows an assortment of methods for grownups to partake in the online learning preparation. The idea of online communication within a network of instructors and understudies is extraordinary. When considering training-based or execution-based courses, there is a likelihood that the learning system may exhibit an inferior quality of sound, and the sound of the piano notes may lag with time over the network connection. Online learning provides adaptability and internationalization and has the capacity to interface with countless individuals and bring them together in the online learning environment. In this situation, the straightforward transportation and installment of remote sensors, the user of the distance educator 5G network is advised to view it from a commonsense perspective. Furthermore, there is a need to advance online piano education training in instructive exercises.

Analysis of Piano Performance Characteristics by Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Piano Teaching.

Deep learning (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI) are jointly applied to concrete piano teaching for children to comprehensively promote modern piano teaching and improve the overall teaching quality. First, the teaching environment and the functions of the intelligent piano are expounded. Then, a piano note onset detection method is proposed based on the convolution neural network (CNN). The network can analyze the time-frequency of the input piano music signal by transforming the original time-domain waveform of the piano music signal into the frequency distribution varying with time. Besides, it can detect the note onset at a stable state after 8 × 104 iterations. Moreover, an intelligent piano teaching method is designed to teach Jingle Bells for 40 preschool children aged 4–6 years. Finally, a questionnaire survey is performed to investigate the teaching situation, including the learning interest and learning effect of children and learning feedback from parents. The results show that 80% of children like smart music scores, 82% of children like intelligent piano lessons with games, and 84% of children can learn actively in the intelligent piano class. Besides, 85% of parents believe that their children are more interested in learning piano. In general, the intelligent piano teaching method effectively combines DL with AI to realize the overall optimization of piano performance. It is widely favored by preschool children and their parents and plays an important role in improving the interest of preschool children in piano learning.

Practice and Reflection on Piano Teaching Reform of Music Major in Colleges and Universities under Diversified Environment.

In order to further promote the innovative development of piano teaching of music major in colleges and universities under a diversified environment, we explore a modern piano teaching reform with distinctive innovative characteristics and strengthen the work needs of colleges and universities for the cultivation of comprehensive, practical, and high-quality piano talents. This study deeply understands the current piano learning, curriculum teaching, and innovative practice of music majors in colleges and universities in the form of questionnaire and interview. On this basis, based on the summary of piano teaching methods, this paper puts forward a piano teaching curriculum system based on innovative development, hoping to provide reference and suggestions for the innovation, reform, and development of piano teaching of music majors in colleges and universities.

The Innovative Trend of Piano Teaching in Music Education in Multicultural Education under Ecological Environment.

Primarily based on theoretical studies of multicultural pedagogy, anthropology of music, and postmodern music education concepts, techniques combining qualitative and quantitative research are used. Eight types of design guidelines are then proposed according to different intelligence characteristics, according to intelligence characteristics and context of conversational design. Finally, based on the perspective of multicultural learning environments, this work will explore and provide insights into new concepts of piano teaching in multicultural learning environments in three areas: new piano teaching, new instruction, and new piano learning materials. The experimental results show that piano teaching activities based on multiple intelligences theory can stimulate students' interest in learning music, fully mobilize students' initiative in learning music, and improve the quality of music teaching.

Rethinking the university of the piano teaching model in the Internet era

Under the construction of the new era of socialism, China has entered the high-speed development of Internet technology. As Internet technology has reached a certain level of development, modern social education and Internet technology have started to join together to form a good integration of "Internet + education", which requires our universities in the new era of socialism, especially in piano education, to actively seize the opportunity to upgrade the new education model of "Internet + education" into their construction, and fundamentally improve the quality of education. Colleges and universities should be fully aware that Internet technology provides a rich platform of educational resources for piano education, so they must establish an efficient and rich music learning platform based on information technology. In this way, students can make full use of the advantages of the resources brought by the Internet platform when learning piano professionally and learn the professional knowledge solidly. This paper explores piano major teaching in colleges and universities in the context of such an era of integration of the Internet and education.

Методи формування поліфонічного слуху у майбутніх вчителів музики України і Китаю

The article actualizes the need for high-quality piano training future Music teachers. Studied the peculiarities in piano training students from Ukraine and China in the way of differences their experience to perceive and perform polyphony pieces of music of different types and styles. Pointed out that in scientific music-pedagogical literature, methodical recommendations for forming polyphonic hearing in students aren't sufficiently presented in defining the problems. The author described own method for forming polyphonic hearing in students described based on the pedagogical principles: reliance on European music and historical experience; emotional passion; creative reflection; performing self-realization in the process of piano training. Presented pedagogical conditions: outright pedagogical management of development of polyphonic thinking; stimulating students to mastering the skills for performing of musical works; praxeological orientation of studying polyphonic works in the piano learning process. The author presents four groups of methods: research method, motivational and emotional method, method of reflection with art-therapeutic techniques, adapted for performing and articulatory-reproductive methods. The peculiarity of this technique is the integration of individual and group forms of work considering the specifics of students’ basics piano training.

Pembelajaran Piano Penyandang Autisme Klasik di Modern Kawai Music School Yogyakarta: Sebuah Survey Model Pembelajaran

Purpose: This study aims to determine the development of the piano learning process and investigate whether using music will improve the skills and responses of people with autism. Research methods: This study uses qualitative methods with the subject of autism children's research, and the object of the study is piano learning. Data collection techniques utilise observation, interview and documentation. Results and discussion: The result of this study is the implementation of the weekly piano learning process for one semester with a duration of 45 minutes per meeting every afternoon. Autistic students' learning materials was the same as for regular students that included theoretical and practical materials. Implication: The obstacles faced in the learning process were a less conducive atmosphere, limited duration, and unfocused students. The LMFG approach could resolve constraints by practising it gradually and repeatedly.

A Knowledge-Based System for Children’s Music Teaching Strategies Based on the Inheritance of Local Music Culture in Southern Jiangsu

In order to analyze the feasibility of integrating Sunan music into children’s music teaching through research, a knowledge-based system for children’s music teaching strategies based on case-based reasoning is proposed. The system can collect sufficient data and information, the exact orientation of piano learning, and the exact choice of teaching modes by questionnaires. Research data show that the vast majority of children like music teaching, and they like 76% more than they do not like, and more parents who express an indifferent attitude to music are 84% more than those who feel important. This experimental study shows that most teachers hold a positive attitude toward the development and use of folk music education resources in kindergartens, and parents do not have enough knowledge about folk music. The infiltration of excellent local culture in children’s music activities can improve students’ cultural literacy, let the new generation understand the tradition and the classics, and let children understand the local culture of southern Jiangsu and inherit the excellent culture of the Chinese nation through the understanding, feeling, and understanding of the local culture of southern Jiangsu. This is the new idea of local cultural heritage in southern Jiangsu and also the responsibility of kindergarten education.

Role of the Chinese piano school in the formation of the Chinese piano art

The relevance of the study is that the integrative role of compulsory piano learning in music education acquires the knowledge and skills of conscious work, which is considered the mainstream of the formation of the art of pianism in China. Most of it is conducted and implemented in territorially different environments of music schools to acquire knowledge, themes of perception of musical text, recognizing the degree of use of inherent potential of additional piano features related to increasing the effectiveness of learning activities. In the context of piano schools, a large number of students perceive the subject only as a hobby. For them, these measures are often reduced to the implementation of appropriate programmes. The piano, like any other subject, develops musicality and promotes reflection on the music piece. For some, the musical art of pianism acts as the only way to stimulate the harmonious imagination through which it is possible to learn to listen to chords. The piano is a unique source of inspiration for further musical development. The aim of the study is to reveal and examine the role of the Chinese piano school in the formation of Chinese art of pianism.

Piano Education of Children Using Musical Instrument Recognition and Deep Learning Technologies Under the Educational Psychology.

The objective of the study was to enhance quality education in the traditional pre-school piano education. Deep Learning (DL) technology is applied to piano education of children to improve their interest in learning music. Firstly, the problems of the traditional piano education of children were analyzed with the teaching patterns discussed under educational psychology, and a targeted music education plan was established. Secondly, musical instrument recognition technology was introduced, and the musical instrument recognition model was implemented based on DL. Thirdly, the proposed model was applied to the piano education of children to guide the music learning of students and improve their interest in piano learning. The feature recognition and acquisition of the proposed model were improved. Finally, the different teaching patterns were comparatively analyzed through the Questionnaire Survey (QS). The experimental results showed that the instrument recognition accuracy of Hybrid Neural Network (HNN) is 97.2%, and with the increase of iterations, the recognition error rate of the model decreases and stabilizes. Therefore, the proposed HNN based on DL for musical instrument recognition can accurately identify musical features. The QS results showed that the introduction of musical instrument recognition technology in the piano education of children can improve their interest in piano learning. Therefore, the establishment of the piano education patterns based on the piano education model can improve the effectiveness of teaching piano to students. This research provides a reference for the intelligentization of children's piano education.

Robot-Led Piano Lessons May Improve Cognitive Function: A Feasibility Study in a Sample with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Cognitive training has been shown to increase neural plasticity and cognitive reserve, potentially reducing the risk of developing dementia. Music learning, specifically piano playing, has been shown to be an effective form of multimodal cognitive training. This pilot study explored the feasibility and efficacy of using a socially assistive robot to provide a piano learning cognitive training intervention to older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Participants (N=11) engaged in a four-week feasibility study, which included a one-hour piano lesson per week led by a remotely controlled robot. Participants experienced improved cognitive function in the verbal memory (p=0.04), executive function (p=0.01), reaction time (p=0.04), and cognitive flexibility (p=0.003) domains, as well as in the calculated neurocognitive index score (p=0.03). Socially assistive robots may have the potential to provide cognitive training in the form of piano lessons for older adults with mild cognitive impairment, especially adults who cannot access traditional services.

VR Technology to the Adjustment of Piano Playing Mentality

Piano performance requires not only skillful and excellent playing skills, but also good psychological quality and improvisation. The perfect performance is the natural language of a pianist's usual skill and mood. The various emotional activities and expressions of the overall situation in relation to the player's performance, mental issues such as the intensity and horror of the scene, seriously affect the pianist’s actual performance while playing. The piano is therefore very important for mind control. Based on this, this paper attempts to apply the current hot VR technology to piano performance and simulate the virtual piano performance scene through VR technology, so as to enhance the on-the-spot experience for piano players and continuously improve their psychological quality, so that they can better adjust their nervous bad mentality in actual combat. This article first has carried on the 3D virtual reality piano stage modeling experiment, and then selected the 20 young pianist piano training involved in day-to-day contrast test, the test group of 10 people for daily training, virtual piano stage under the environment of normal control group of 10 people ordinary daily training, training time four hours a day, for three months, all participants will take part in The Provincial Youth Piano Competition since the end of the training. The final test results showed that in the competition site, the performance level of 10 players in the test group was generally better than that of the control group. Among them, there were 2 subjects in the test group who played for a long time, while one of the control groups gave up playing in the middle. In addition, in the horizontal comparison, it is found that subjects who are older and have been learning piano for a long time have better on-the-spot mental adjustment ability and more stable performance. Boys performed better than girls, and subjects with positive, optimistic, and confident personalities performed better than those with introverted and low self-confidence.

The Pygmalion Effect to Piano Teaching From the Perspective of Educational Psychology.

Aiming at the problem of low student enthusiasm in piano teaching, this work tried to apply “Pygmalion effect” to piano teaching from the perspective of educational psychology. Forty-five students were chosen from nine classes in grades 2, 4, and 6 of a central elementary school in Beijing City using experimental research, and the experimental group and the control group were set up. A questionnaire was adopted to conduct the pre-test and post-test of the experiment, which were done to analyze the factors that affect the attitude of students toward music learning and the effect of piano teaching. The results show that the encouragement level of the piano teacher and the enthusiasm of the students in the piano course were significantly correlated at the 0.01 level. There was also a significant correlation between self-efficacy and student piano learning enthusiasm at the 0.01 level. Furthermore, the pre-test and post-test results showed that the students in the experimental group of each grade generally performed much better in piano learning than the students in the control group, which proves that the “Pygmalion effect” can play an excellent interventional role in piano teaching. In this research, the value of “Pygmalion effect” in the educational psychology of piano music education in primary schools was deeply studied to explore the possibility of a novel piano teaching model. The research results show that teacher encouragement can stimulate the subjective initiative of students and make them perform better in piano learning. This research provides reference and ideas for the combination of education- and psychology-related research in the music classroom.

What Early User Involvement Could Look Like—Developing Technology Applications for Piano Teaching and Learning

Numerous technological solutions have been proposed to promote piano learning and teaching, but very few with market success. We are convinced that users’ needs should be the starting point for an effective and transdisciplinary development process of piano-related Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (TaHIL) applications. Thus, we propose to include end users in the initial stage of technology development. We gathered insights from adult piano teachers and students through an online survey and digital interviews. Three potential literature-based solutions have been visualized as scenarios to inspire participants throughout the interviews. Our main findings indicate that potential end users consider posture and body movements, teacher–student communication, and self-practice as crucial aspects of piano education. Further insights resulted in so-called acceptance requirements for each scenario, such as enabling meaningful communication in distance teaching, providing advanced data on a performer’s body movement for increased well-being, and improving students’ motivation for self-practice, all while allowing or even promoting artistic freedom of expression and having an assisting instead of judging character. By putting the users in the center of the fuzzy front end of technology development, we have gone a step further toward concretizing TaHIL applications that may contribute to the routines of piano teaching and learning.

Une situation adidactique pour les apprentissages pianistiques

La notion de situation adidactique a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux dans les didactiques des disciplines, particulièrement en didactique des mathématiques et dans celle des sciences. Cependant, elle n’a pas encore été investie en didactique de la musique. La présente contribution s’inscrit dans le champ des études comparatistes en didactique et vise à mettre à l’épreuve le fonctionnement possible de cette notion pour le domaine de l’éducation musicale. Plus précisément, nous proposons, pour les apprentissages pianistiques, une situation dont l’enjeu tient au franchissement d’un obstacle qui participe à la conceptualisation du doigté au piano. La notion de situation adidactique nous permet d’interroger certaines composantes épistémologiques et psychologiques des savoirs musicaux tout comme elle offre la possibilité d’ouvrir le champ des pratiques pédagogiques musicales à la construction de situations qui confrontent le sujet à un milieu antagoniste.

The Interest Of Classic Piano Student In Semarang Music Course

The community is very enthusiastic about welcoming music education institutions. There are many people's desire to learn music, especially piano, but not all students have the same interest in learning music. In this case the researchers limited the classical piano participants, with ages 4-6 years. Based on observations, the classical piano learning process has a very detailed learning stage, so that students experience boredom in learning. Seeing this fact, the researcher wanted to know the students' interest in learning classical piano in the Music course in Semarang. The benefit of this research is to know the students' interest in learning classical piano. So that these results can be used for the development of methods, materials, strategies, and media in classical piano learning. The development of this learning component has a beneficial impact on the owners of educational institutions, teachers and students.
 The result of the discussion is that interest has a great influence on students in learning, because if the material and learning methods are not in accordance with their interests, students will not learn as well as possible, because there is no attraction for them. For students aged 4-6 years, students cannot achieve learning goals just because of interest, but other psychological factors such as intelligence, attention, talent, maturity, readiness, especially motivation that can help return the initial interest, namely learning the piano. Motivation from the closest people, usually parents play an important role in the growth of interest.