Music Learning Research Articles

세계시민교육으로서의 대중음악교육을 위한 변혁적 접근

This study reconsiders and reflects on the issues surrounding contemporary education such as anti-bias education, transformative education from the perspective of global citizenship, and education in the context of Korean popular music learning. The scope of popular music education not only comprises physical sonic elements but also includes complex socio-cultural phenomenon such as modernity and colonialism. However, a tendency to adopt a western art music-centric curriculum based on enlightenment notions persists in Korean popular music education. These factors are becoming a serious obstacle to approach contemporary virtues of music education. This study examines the asymmetric curriculum of the class based on the question of “how popular music in Korea is being reflected and how the meaning of authenticity is being defined.” To this end, this study includes comparative explanations on the reconstructed popular music curricula from different countries and seeks to understand the ethno-semantic aspects of the Korean classroom context. The different meanings of reflection upon a critical perspective are emphasized to approach the core competencies of contemporary popular music education such as global citizenship, critical, anti-bias, and transformative competency.

Preparing conservatoire students for the music education workforce: conversations with alumni

Abstract Higher music education institutions should continually review their curricula to ensure that their graduates are best equipped to support musical learning for children and young people. Perspectives on early careers in instrumental teaching were obtained via an alumni-led workshop and focus group at a UK conservatoire. Findings revealed that whilst extensive pedagogical training was offered, its value was not fully acknowledged across the institution and that more could be done to alleviate students’ anxieties about their developing musician identities and future stability. As new teachers, alumni are well placed to help prepare students for the professional realities of joining the music education workforce.

Adults’ engagement in music learning during and after online coaching

ABSTRACT This article sheds light on adult engagement in a learning activity during and after online coaching on piano, guitar, or songwriting. Data was collected from the participants using thematic semi-structured interviews and experience sampling. To investigate the extent to which adult learners are involved in learning during and after online music coaching, we analysed the visibility of four components of engagement – namely behavioural, cognitive, affective and social. During the coaching, flexibility, a regular and repetitive course structure and the learning community positively influenced engagement. However, only a few participants continued their active music-making after the coaching period ended. A lack of time and goals were potential explanations for non-continuance, whereas participation in a music-related community beyond the coaching was recognised as a potential factor in continuing to make music when it stopped.

Effectiveness of Local Music Learning Using Audio Visual Media

Effectiveness of Local Music Learning Using Audio Visual Media

Enhancing music rhythmic perception and performance with a VR game

This study analyzes the effect of using a virtual reality (VR) game as a complementary tool to improve users’ rhythmic performance and perception in a remote and self-learning environment. In recent years, remote learning has gained importance due to various everyday situations; however, the effects of using VR in such situations for individual and self-learning have yet to be evaluated. In music education, learning processes are usually heavily dependent on face-to-face communication with a teacher and are based on a formal or informal curriculum. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of gamified VR learning and its influence on users’ rhythmic sensory and perceptual abilities. We developed a drum-playing game based on a tower defense scenario designed to improve four aspects of rhythmic perceptual skills in elementary school children with various levels of music learning experience. In this study, 14 elementary school children received Meta Quest 2 headsets for individual use in a 14-day individual training session. The results showed a significant increase in their rhythmical skills through an analysis of their rhythmic performance before and after the training sessions. In addition, the experience of playing the VR game and using the HMD setup was also assessed, highlighting some of the challenges of currently available affordable headsets for gamified learning scenarios.

Creativity in a music composition community: an analysis of online comments

ABSTRACT Scholars have often highlighted the intrinsic features of technology to support the generation and sharing of ideas (Craft 2011). By studying user interactions within informal online communities, researcher can elucidate the ways technology impacts creativity and learning within these groups. This qualitative content analysis (Hsieh and Shannon 2005) used a systems-based approach to creativity (Csikszentmihalyi 1999) to examine the interactions within an online community (Noteflight) focused on Western standard music notation-based composition. One popular, publicly available, original musical score was selected. Online comments were collected and analysed. Findings highlight the diversity and abundance of feedback given to the composer as well as the many ways users engaged with domain knowledge. This online community allows individuals to share knowledge, learn about the social norms associated with giving feedback, and explore creative ideas regarding music composition. Implications from this study highlight the ways music educators and technology designers can develop web-based music learning environments that support creativity and life-long engagement.

Remote Music Learning Based on Wireless Sensors Supporting 6G and CPS

Remote Music Learning Based on Wireless Sensors Supporting 6G and CPS

Comparative Analysis of Kodály, Suzuki, Dalcroze, Orff, and Gordon Music Learning Theory in Early Childhood Music Education: A Literature Review

Comparative Analysis of Kodály, Suzuki, Dalcroze, Orff, and Gordon Music Learning Theory in Early Childhood Music Education: A Literature Review

Caring for our planet: a world apart or same difference? A global music collaboration

PurposeThe impact and collective threat of climate change is of key concern to all. Music and arts education can play a role by responding to the ongoing climate crisis through the creation of artworks as activism. This paper discusses a collaborative online international music project and its potential contribution to sustainable development education.Design/methodology/approach 10,427 miles and 11 hours apart, music education students undertook the project, working in groups with a mix of students from Aberdeen, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia in each group. Each student collected video footage that captured their experience of climate concerns related to their environment. Students combined and edited the footage then collaboratively composed music to accompany the footage. This research was conceived as a collaborative self-study project undertaken by the authors as music teacher educators.FindingsThe results show a range of musical and extra musical outcomes and challenges. Evidence suggests that a collaborative online international music learning experience may contribute to sustainable development education and regenerative practice more broadly. Students began to develop their practice as educators for school and community contexts embedding learning for sustainability and climate consciousness, thus enabling them to develop as active global citizens.Originality/valueThis paper argues for greater attention to the affordances of digital collaborative music technology tools to facilitate creative projects as well as the need to reimagine musical experience, drawing together strands of music, sustainability education, technology and global citizenship. This paper also argues for the importance of embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals in teaching and learning in Higher Education.

Formal, informal, and non-formal learning as analytic categories for research in music education

Using a deductive approach, this article explores how synthesizing existing theoretical frameworks—UNESCO’s domains of education encompassing formal, informal, and nonformal learning, Folkestad’s dimensions of learning (the situation, learning style, ownership, and intentionality), and Green’s characterizations of informal learning—can enhance our understanding of students’ experiences of music-making across diverse contexts. It explores previous theoretical perspectives and empirical research on music education across these domains, incorporating a global perspective and discussing the varied interpretations of “non-formal” learning. The article highlights how a continuum between formal and informal learning is challenged by more fluid and nuanced understandings presented here. Drawing on empirical material from an ongoing study in Norwegian upper secondary schools, this work demonstrates the practical implications of a nuanced approach to understanding music learning contexts. Observations and interviews from collaborative learning settings offer insights into the interconnectedness of formal, informal, and non-formal learning domains. By offering a critical examination and synthesis of existing theoretical perspectives, this article contributes to broadening the discourse on music education. It underscores the need for a comprehensive approach to research and education practices that fully acknowledges the complexity of learning experiences across various contexts.

Posthumanist new materialist pathways for reimagining music education research: What matters? What can this offer music educators?

ABSTRACT Much of historical and contemporary music education research is influenced by a Cartesian ontology of opposition. This reinforces the classic function of music and music education: the exercise of possession, ownership and control. To confront these ideas, our article reimagines music education research through posthumanism and new materialism. In doing so, the focus shifts to making with nonhuman matter, posthuman bodies and the materialisation of music. Examples of cartographic research are discussed to show how the experience of musical environments is constantly reconfigured by human and nonhuman elements. This abandons the notion that music education takes place only in the mind and explores what a posthumanist approach to materiality can offer instead. As a result, normative academic conventions are disrupted by the recognition of in-the-making embodied musical learning, the intra-action of human and nonhuman sound materialising, and the materiality of the body in its experience of music as a play space, arguing that staying with the trouble of doing something new, or swimming against the tide, matters for music educators.

The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction Model in Teaching Solfeggio for Beginners

The background of this study was rooting down from the students music learning circumstances, of which they have low skill and knowledge of solfeggio, low ability of transferring solfeggio automatically into a new context although they have learned it, unavailability of learning material, syllabus, and lesson plan, standardized method and media of learning. Based on the problems stated above, it is very important to design a research dealing with learning solfeggio which lasting and producing a complete, practical, reliable and valid curricula of solfeggio. The basis model of development is using ADDIE theory. This research belongs to R & D research. The subject of the research is the students of art and music department, FBS Padang State University. The instrumentation of data gathering was using interview, questionnaire, tryout, performance-test. To analyze the raw data to see the level of reliability and practicality the researcher used the formula of Rho Spearman Brown, and the result is that r-obtain 1.2 exceeds r-table within significance level of 95% (0.05) it is 0.349 or by (0,01) it is 0.449. To prove the effectiveness of the product of this research ( the model of learning solfeggio ), the writer distinguish the data of pre-test to post-test by accumulating the scores the students obtained by using match t-test, and the result is that t-obtain 9.311 exceeds t-table 1.697. It means that, the model of learning solfeggio as the product of this research is much more effective significantly since the result of the match t-test is so high exceeding the number of the t-tab. It can be concluded that this model is very useful for the lecturers and the students as well in learning solfeggio at the music department of FBS Padang State University.

Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran Seni Budaya Musik Tradisional (Talempong Pacik) Siswa Kelas VIII-1 SMP Negeri 43 Padang

. This study aims to describe the process of implementing Talempong Pacik Music learning in grades VIII-1 at SMP Negeri 43 Padang. This type of research is qualitative research with descriptive methods. This research instrument is the researcher himself and is assisted by supporting instruments in the form of stationery and cameras. This research data uses primary data and secondary data. Data are collected through literature study, observation, interviews, documentation. The steps of analyzing data are data classification, analyzing data, and inferring data. The results showed that the implementation of learning Traditional Music Culture Arts (Talempong Pacik) in Grades VIII-1 SMP Negeri 43 Padang consisted of 4 meetings, namely initial activities, core activities and closing activities. The scores of students after the implementation of Traditional Music Culture (Talempong Pacik) learning activities are still many who have not reached KKM, there are 15 students who have not reached KKM and 8 students can only achieve predetermined KKM standard scores and there are 9 students who get scores that exceed KKM. The learning process has not fully obtained satisfactory learning results. Teacher limitations in using teaching aids and limited time in practical activities, teachers continue to try to motivate students, so that students continue to be enthusiastic in the process of learning activities, students still look rigid in carrying out learning activities including in the process of traditional music learner practice activities, so that there are still many student scores below KKM, and the rest only reach the KKM limit. So it is known that students have not received maximum grade results.

MatheMusical Virtual Museum: Virtual Reality application to explore Math-Music World

Virtual Reality is a promising tool for pedagogy in teaching music, and the MatheMusical Virtual Museum takes this promise to a new level. This study aims to share and describe the project's concept and advancement, including expertise and collected experiences in MatheMusic. Mathemusic is the scientific field that studies the relations between math and music; the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music regroups worldwide researchers in the field. The Mathemusical Virtual Museum is an interactive virtual experience that premiered at the Museum of Design in Atlanta (Moda) in June 2022 (Baroin & de Gérando, 2022). It contains a growing set of interactive models based on the research issued by our society. Mathemusicians have always produced models for understanding, analyzing, or computing music. Visualizing some on paper, theater, or computer screens is expected. Even if it is in a multidimensional space (3D-4D), the viewer ends up with a 2D picture or a movie while displaying these models on a computer screen. Planar projection limits the perception in the era of virtual reality nowadays. This study proposes tools and solutions to apprehend these models better and improve the viewer's immersive experience. Since the beginning of the project, user experiences were collected. Besides desperately unfit users for VR, we noticed that kids are highly engaged and immersed in the learning environment; music learners are not just improving their knowledge but also feeling inspired and hopeful about the future of music education; mathematicians and researchers are feeling like they are finally entering their creation and contributing to improving the project, thereby making significant contributions to their respective fields. Keywords: Virtual Reality, Mathemusic, Visualization, Pedagogy, Learning Strategy Received Date: January 31, 2024Revised Date: March 14 , 2024Accepted Date: April 25, 2024

E-learning and speech dynamic recognition based on network transmission in music interactive teaching experience

The research adopts the network transmission technology to realize the framework of e-learning, and combines the speech dynamic recognition technology to improve the interactive music teaching experience. By establishing an online learning platform, the network is used to transmit learning resources such as audio, video and text. In the application of speech dynamic recognition technology, the modern speech recognition algorithm and artificial intelligence technology are used. Let students sing or play on a device such as a microphone or a mobile phone and transmit their sound signals to the system. Through speech dynamic recognition technology, students 'audio is analyzed and processed in real time, and students' singing or performance is evaluated and feedback. The system can analyze students' intonation, rhythm, timbre and other musical elements, and evaluate and guide them according to the preset scoring standards, so as to help students improve their playing skills. Through the combination of network transmission technology and speech dynamic recognition technology, students can enjoy a more personalized and interactive teaching experience in music learning. The systematic real-time evaluation and guidance function can also help students adjust their performance skills in time and provide targeted learning suggestions.

Research on VR e-learning based on load balancing algorithm in intelligent music education system

This paper aims to explore the application of virtual reality (VR) electronic learning based on load balancing algorithm in the simulation of intelligent music education system. This paper designs and implements an intelligent music education system simulation, which uses load balancing algorithm and virtual reality (VR) technology to provide the convenience of e-learning and personalized learning experience. The load balancing algorithm allocates and manages multiple tasks or requests in the system to ensure the balanced utilization of resources and the efficient operation of the system. In the intelligent music education system, the load balancing algorithm can be used to manage user requests, allocate appropriate resources and services, and ensure that the system can respond quickly and provide a stable learning environment. This paper introduces the architecture and implementation details of the system, including the design and optimization of load balancing algorithm and the application of VR technology. The results show that we point out that VR e-learning based on load balancing algorithm has potential in the simulation of intelligent music education system, which can provide high-quality personalized music learning experience and provide useful enlightenment for innovation in the field of music education.

Application of recommendation system based on fuzzy logic in music culture communication and music teaching management

Music has been utilized throughout history as a medium for cultural communication and artistic expression, embodying various nations’ and societies’ ideologies and experiences. Music culture communication is crucial for encouraging cultural diversity and understanding and developing social cohesion and community building among people. Music teaching management is the process of setting up, arranging, and executing music education programs in a manner that successfully teaches students the essential skills and information necessary for becoming proficient musicians. Users’ exact preferences for various areas of attraction cannot be determined, nor are users’ choices for traditional music recommendations sufficiently accurate. A recommender system estimates or anticipates people’s preferences and offers appropriate recommendations. First, the sparsity problem emerges when insufficient data is accessible for the recommendation, and the coverage is one of the key drawbacks of social labeling. Cold start issues might be difficult since new music learners might not have given sufficient details about their musical tastes. Hence, the Hybridized Fuzzy logic-based Content and Collaborative Music Recommendation (HFC2MR) system is proposed to create personalized music teaching plans that are effective and engaging for each student based on their music preferences and learning outcomes. Enhanced Fuzzy C-Means clustering is used in collaborative recommendations to group users based on their shared musical tastes and to provide each user with more individualized, accurate music recommendations based on other users’ listening habits and preferences in the same cluster. Subsequently, an assessment of the recommender system using parameters like accuracy, precision, f1-score, and recall ratio is shown with optimal cluster selection. The coverage ratio is used to compare experimental data based on skill capacity covered through the assessment of music teaching. RMSE metric is used to evaluate the accuracy of students’ performance based on music attributes related to teaching goals.

The CrazySquare project for music learning in Italian school-age pre-adolescents: integrating technology into educational practice

The CrazySquare project for music learning in Italian school-age pre-adolescents: integrating technology into educational practice

Kaleidoscope of Inclusion: Mapping Music Learning Methods through the Lens of Contemporary Early Childhood Education Literature

The use of music learning methods in inclusive schools is considered as an innovative way to create an inclusive environment that stimulates children's holistic development. Even so, not many are aware of the urgency of music as a tool to achieve this inclusion, so a more in-depth study is needed. This study aims to analyze the role of music learning methods in inclusive early childhood education (ECE) in the contemporary era. Using a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach, this research aims to collect, review and analyze literature related to the use of music learning methods in inclusive ECE. Data collection techniques involve conducting a structured and comprehensive search on trusted databases. The data analysis process involved selecting literature based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, considering the relevance of articles and the necessary information. The results of the literature analysis found that music learning methods play an important role in creating an inclusive environment that stimulates early childhood participation and development. Music can open doors of communication, increase social interaction, and stimulate the creativity of inclusive children.

Quality Assessors’ Feedback and Recommendations on Music Education in Hong Kong Kindergartens

In Hong Kong, quality assessors from the Education Bureau (EDB) visit kindergartens to conduct Quality Review (QR) assessments. Their written reports, therefore, reflect the official local perspective of quality kindergarten education. We conducted a content analysis of 323 QR reports focusing on the positive and negative feedback and recommendations for improvement regarding music education. Two coding schemes were developed using an inductive approach. High inter-reliability was obtained. The most frequently mentioned positive feedback codes were related to sufficient exposure to music and enjoyable musical learning experiences. In contrast, there were negative feedback codes pointing out that children’s musical exposure was insufficient at Kindergarten 3 (children aged 5–6 years), and some musical activities were poorly prepared and/or designed. Children’s music learning outcomes were rarely mentioned in the reports. The analyses indicate that the local understanding of kindergarten music education strongly emphasizes exposing children to enjoyable musical activities, with a lower focus on the nature and quality of musical learning. We conclude that the QR reports reflect a teacher-centric view of music education. Findings may inform curriculum designers and teacher educators about EDB’s expectations in the area of music education. Future research should explore the perspectives of other kindergarten stakeholders such as teachers, principals, and teacher educators.