Music Students Research Articles

Modern mobile learning technologies in online piano education: online educational course design and impact on learning

ABSTRACT Individuals can learn the art of playing a musical instrument not only in the classroom but also remotely. The main purpose of the paper is to identify the possibilities of an educational online piano course for Chinese students. In the work, it was determined which of the online applications are the most popular in the world for learning. The results showed that the most common are Udemy (25%), Google Class (22%), and Skillshare (17%), which are used not only for music learning. Based on the data obtained, the work developed an online course for piano training, which included three blocks – learning theoretical material with the help of the program goodEar Pro; developing technical playing skills with the help of Skillshare and Xiaoyezi AI Piano Tutor; improving the skills obtained by using The One Music Group. Survey data from 104 respondents determined that the Xiaoyezi AI Piano Tutor mobile app (29%) was more effective among the others because it focused on polyphony skills, which allows the combination of technical piano playing skills and thinking. With a digitally enabled learning program, students were able to achieve better results when working on a playing technique (5.3) and polyphony (5.1).

Reframing Recruitment as Marketing: Building Connections with Prospective High School Music Students, Families, and Administrators

The transition from middle school to high school can be a particularly challenging time for music program retention. However, when music teachers view this process through the lens of marketing, it may be possible to develop a more holistic and comprehensive approach toward student enrollment. Marketing strategies related to perception, targeting, salience, and the “rule of seven” are all adaptable to music program membership efforts. These tools can help music teachers more effectively tailor messages and attract prospective students.

Improvisation as the Foundation of Flow in Music Education: Connections to Attitudes, Gender and Genre

The aim of our study was to explore the connection between improvisation and flow. Data were collected from 252 tertiary music students from Slovenia and Croatia (121 male and 131 female musicians), who filled in The Questionnaire on Attitudes to Music Improvisation, The Inventory on Feelings associated with Music Improvisation, and the Work-related Flow Inventory. The results show that the female students have significantly more negative feelings and attitudes toward improvisation, and they experience less flow while improvising. Differences were even more pronounced when comparing students who only played classical music with those who played other genres, as well. Regression analysis showed that we can explain 71% of the variance in flow with attitudes toward improvisation.

Piano teachers’ use of music memorisation in one-to-one piano lessons: A preliminary study

Piano teachers’ use of music memorisation in one-to-one piano lessons: A preliminary study

Teaching Applied Piano Singing While Playing Based on Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy: Taking Fujian Vocational College of Art as an Example

As known to all, China has witnessed remarkable development in addition to its effective implementation of the “double reduction” policy. Under such circumstance, the piano has drawn more interest and parental affection as a vital course that may improve students’ all-round qualities. While piano education is gaining momentum, the country has raised the requirements for the piano teacher workforce in terms of their professional qualities. Under the background of promoting quality-oriented education nationwide, piano education in Chinese vocational colleges of art has garnered more attention. In contrast to applied piano instruction, which has received wide recognition and promotion, the traditional elite private teaching model targeted at nurturing pianists has more than ever failed to meet societal demands. The majority of graduates from vocational colleges of art seem to be unable to apply what they have learned. They are unable to compose accompaniment for simple songs, write piano music, provide piano accompaniment for singers, or sing while playing the piano. As a result, they fall short of living up to the expectations of piano teaching and meeting the needs of music teacher employment in primary and secondary schools. The development of “Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy” can effectively address the aforementioned problems. As piano teachers, the authors experimented with Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy to teach singing while playing the piano to first-year students at Fujian Vocational College of Art. A measurement table was used to measure the differences in various musical abilities of those students after the experiment, statistical analysis of the data was performed, and the preliminary results were obtained. The results showed that training in Applied Piano Singing while Playing led to a noticeable improvement in students’ musical literacy, harmonic hearing, singing while playing beloved songs, and other abilities. Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy is guided by the philosophy of talent cultivation, featuring “application, theories, and practice.” It can be tailored to different students, so that they can indeed apply what they have learned and enhance their practical and innovative capabilities.

Research on the development of piano performance teaching in China

The establishment of Shanghai National Conservatory of music in 1927 marked the establishment of piano performance in China. With the development of the motherland, Chinese piano art has grown up all the way, showing unique musical cultural phenomena and Piano cultural highlights closely related to the social environment in different historical stages. The author believes that the development of Chinese piano art is mainly reflected in three aspects: teaching, creation and performance. The pioneers of China's early piano education not only trained the first batch of piano players for the Chinese music world, but also continued their teaching ideas, teaching styles and teaching methods on their students from generation to generation, which has had a positive and far-reaching impact on today's Piano Teaching in China. By sorting out and analyzing the historical development stages of Chinese piano performance teaching theory, the author can observe the current situation of Chinese piano performance teaching with a more critical perspective, thus enlightening us to explore and think about Chinese piano performance teaching in the new era, so as to promote the deeper and broader development of the research on piano performance teaching theory, And try to change the problem that piano performance teaching only stays at the level of language description and experience summary to a certain extent, and seek a development path for the improvement of piano teachers' scientific research ability.

Training Strategy of Music Expression in Piano Teaching and Performance by Intelligent Multimedia Technology

Teaching using a multimedia technology in the 21 s t century affords the possibility of developing novel instructional strategies and paves the way for the all-around extension of musical educational functions. The importance of multimedia teaching technology in piano instruction has started to emerge in our country and society due to the ongoing development of this kind of technology in music educational institutions here. The conventional method of teaching piano has several drawbacks that may be mitigated by using one of the several alternative methods of instruction for the instrument, especially in light of the ongoing advancements in science and technology. A pianist’s methods of expression are the tools they use to convey their thoughts and emotions about a piece of music to the audience. Teachers may demonstrate their musical skills to students and they must immediately focus on a musical expression which is vital for performers. In this paper, the Multimedia-based Piano Teaching Model (MPTM) has been proposed to improve the piano teaching quality. Traditional piano instruction is improved and developed using multimedia technology in this article. The Internet education model is used for teacher assessment, and the systematic way representing piano teaching combines different music educational materials. It begins building a sufficiently broad music network infrastructure resource sharing framework and benefits society’s amateur music literacy. The use of machine learning in students’ concrete piano instruction has the potential to thoroughly promote contemporary piano instruction and enhance the overall quality of instruction. To begin, an explanation of the intelligent piano’s features and capabilities is provided. The neural network is used to suggest a technique for detecting a piano note on a set. The network can assess the input piano music signal’s time frequency by translating the original time-domain waveform into the time-varying frequency distribution. Intelligent piano instruction analysis can effectively achieve the overall optimization of piano performance. The test results show that MPTM has a significant role in boosting the desire to learn to play the instrument. The experimental results show that the proposed MPTM achieves a learning skills ratio of 97.6%, a learning activity ratio of 98.5%, a student performance ratio of 93.8%, a teaching evaluation ratio of 90.3%, and a learning behavior ratio of 94.2% when compared to other methods.

Educational Evaluation of Piano Performance by the Deep Learning Neural Network Model

In recent years, the piano education industry has occupied a huge market. However, the automatic evaluation function of piano performance has shortcomings in existing piano education products. Deep learning (DL) algorithm and the recurrent neural network (RNN) structure can help in automatics evaluation function of the piano performance. This paper proposes a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) piano evaluation scheme based on the RNN structure and the Spark computing engine using the Deeplearning4J DL framework. The Deeplearning4J framework can run on the Java Virtual Machine; therefore, the entire system does not require cross-platform development. The Spark distributed computing engine realizes parallelization in music data preprocessing, feature extraction, and model training. Combined with the training user interface (UI) provided by the Deeplearning4J, it can improve developmental efficiency. Additionally, the RNN parameters are analyzed. The results demonstrate that the error value of the three-layer RNN structure is smaller than other closest rivals’ techniques. In particular, few piano training institutions and MIDI website datasets are used as the basis, and the experimental samples are collected. The neural network is trained, and the performance of the evaluation model is tested. The results show that the evaluation outcomes of the designed performance evaluation model for the piano are fundamentally consistent with the real levels of the players with assured feasibility; after 3k times of the training periods, the error of the RNN model is close to 0.01 and the network converges.

Psycho-sensorial categories: Actions and behaviors of piano practice at different levels of expertise

In the current literature, instrumental practice dealing with elementary levels of expertise tends to be underestimated compared to that of professional musicians. Therefore, the purpose of the present research was to investigate actions and behaviors in piano practice carried out by pianists belonging of different levels of expertise. In a case-study approach guided by phenomenological principles, four participants were selected according to their potential representativeness at different levels of expertise, their received formal piano instruction, and accumulated practice time. The participants were asked to record one practice session of two piano pieces from their current repertoire. They were instructed to select one piece that they considered more challenging (piece 1) and another piece that they considered less challenging (piece 2). Semi-structured interviews provided information about their strategies. Nine categories were proposed as characteristic actions and behaviors of piano practice within the scope of the classical Western music tradition, namely, testing, repeating, isolating, alternating, exploring, adjusting, pausing, straggling, and slipping. Such categories proved to be common for all participants, exemplified by the practices of four participants (precollege, undergraduate, graduate students and professional pianists), and provided evidence of the nuances of deliberation, such as the procedures to approach and improve the repertoire (and their effectiveness), the effort to stay engaged and on task, and some of the limits in attention to practice.

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Piano Education: An Experimental Study of Students of biological sciences

The paper follows the experimental study of "the effect of computer-assisted instruction on piano teaching: An experimental study of students of biological sciences". It analyzes the results, which show a significant increase in practice time and success rate. Scientists from both universities have been working on a project to see if computer-assisted instruction would be useful for music education. They ran an experiment with students to see its effects. They found that it had greater effects on some types of learning than others. The paper summarizes the findings and talks about implications for future research in this field as well as practical applications for computer-assisted instruction in various fields, including education. Evaluation was based on three areas: practice, piano playing, and music appreciation. Students were divided into two groups: computer students and students without computers. The research team had expected that by using the computer, students will be able to practice longer and improve more quickly. The experiment also supposed that the additional practice would affect their concentration and listening skills in playing well-known pieces of music.

Student Opinions on Augmented Reality Applications in Piano Education

Student Opinions on Augmented Reality Applications in Piano Education

Research on the Use of Open Teaching Mode Based on IoT Applications in College Piano Courses

The existing piano curriculum education system in colleges has been very backward. With the rapid economic development, it is also necessary to add new teaching technical means to meet the teaching needs of the new era and study the application of open teaching mode in the piano curriculum in colleges. This paper examines the current state of piano instruction in colleges and puts forward some problems, such as the serious lag of teaching mode, the backwardness of curriculum design education, and the failure of evaluation mechanism to keep pace with the times. The design is based on the open teaching mode, designs the piano course in colleges, establishes the open teaching mode, designs the open and inclusive teaching content, improves the piano teaching evaluation mechanism, and obtains a new teaching method of piano course in colleges. In the case analysis, the test results of this teaching mode and traditional teaching mode are compared. The results of the pretest and posttest show that the open teaching mode can greatly improve the teaching performance of piano courses and can be applied to practical teaching.

Design of Piano Intelligent Teaching System Based on Neural Network Algorithm

In recent years, with the improvement of economic level, music art has become a major focus of extracurricular teaching. Students of all ages are included. However, the high cost of piano teaching and the unique one-to-one teaching method of teachers and students lead to the lack of piano education resources. Learning piano has become a luxury activity. Therefore, using computer multimedia software to teach piano has become a feasible way to alleviate the current contradiction. For piano teaching, the main difficulties are the differences between teachers and students (i.e., the data change at both ends due to the network), the instability of the network system, and the neural network algorithm can solve these difficulties. Based on this point, this work aims to introduce neural network algorithm into piano teaching intelligent system. This paper first introduces the theoretical basis of the neural network algorithm, then expounds the algorithm flow and general framework of the algorithm in speech recognition, and explains the split explanation in combination with five aspects: preprocessing, character extraction, acoustic model, linguistic model, and decoding. Then, it introduces the system design of intelligent piano teaching and describes the general system requirements and product architecture. Finally, the intelligent piano teaching system is tested and applied to prove the effectiveness of the system. I hope this intelligent piano teaching system can provide more convenience for piano teaching.

The Extent of the Students' Response to Music Notation Programs in Computer and Music Subject in Art Schools of the Jordanian Universities

This study aims to reveal the extent of the music students response to the computer subject and music for musical notation programs in Arts colleges in the Jordanian University, and the study used the descriptive and analytical approach, by collecting data and information's for this topic and analyzing it. The study consisted of all students of musical arts (BA) Bachelors degree 58 males and females in the second semester of the year 2019/2020 ,and due to the great importance of linking music learning and education in modern technology. These programs are considered among the many supporting factors for education, which don't rely on traditional method of education. This study was conducted on students who are currently studying in different academic levels and from both sexes, males and females. And to achieve this goal, the study sought to answer its questions. The study reached the following conclusions: First: The extent of the applied response of music students at Yarmouk University and the University of Jordan to the computerized music notation program was high. Second: The extent of educational response of music students at Yarmouk University and the University of Jordan to the computerized Sibelius music notation program was high. Third: The extent of the cognitive response of music students at Yarmouk University and the University of Jordan to Computer and Music subject was high

General Musical Self-Efficacy Scale: Adaptation and validation of a version in Spanish

This article presents the process of translation into Spanish, adaptation, and validation of the General Musical Self-Efficacy Scale by Ritchie and Williamon. After having carried out reverse translation and a preliminary study, the scale was tested on a sample of 668 students enrolled in six Spanish music academies (secondary school and university level). Our results corroborated the two original subscales: one for self-efficacy for learning (α = .792 and α = .734), and the other for self-efficacy for public performance (α = .773 and α = .780), after having removed one item in each subscale on the basis of internal consistency indicators and factorial analysis. The subscales we thereby obtained likewise presented good temporal stability ( r = .513 and .539); they both correlated with performance anxiety (stage fright); both correlated more highly with the public performance subscale. Validation data signaled higher scores obtained by students enrolled in university-level music academies, by students who had started music training at an earlier age, for the boys at secondary level, and for the younger group of students at secondary level. To summarize, this version of the General Musical Self-Efficacy Scale is a valid, reliable tool for measuring self-efficacy in Spanish music students.

Positive Psychological Construction and Utility in Piano Education

Positive Psychological Construction and Utility in Piano Education

An Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Opus 2 No.1 Sonata for Piano Teaching

Ludwig van Beethoven’in piyano sonatları piyano eğitiminde önemli yer tutmaktadır. Bu araştırmanın amacı, Beethoven’in Opus 2 No.1 sonatını piyano öğretimine yönelik incelemektir. Bu amaca yönelik olarak. Beethoven’in Opus 2 No.1 piyano sonatı birinci bölümünün öğrenciler tarafından sıklıkla çalınması ve yarattığı kazanımlar sebebiyle seçilmiş, incelenmiş ve analiz edilmiştir. Betimsel araştırma yöntemi kullanılarak yapılan bu çalışmada Beethoven’in piyano için bestelediği Opus 2 No.1 sonatı “biçimsel yapı, “motifsel yapı” ve “teknik güçlükler” bakımından analiz edilmiştir. Yapılan inceleme ve yazılan teknik çalışmalar sayesinde öğrencilerin bu sonatı kısa sürede öğrenmelerini sağlayabileceği ve benzer sonatları çalışmalarına örnek oluşturabileceği sonucuna varılmış, ayrıca bestecinin diğer enstürmanlar için bestelemiş olduğu sonatlarının da benzer biçimde analiz edilmesi önerilmiştir.

Cultivation and interpretation of students' psychological quality: Vocal psychological model.

Reflecting students' mental health data through vocal music teaching expressive system is a research hotspot in vocal music teaching psychology. Based on the theory of students' expressiveness in vocal music teaching, this paper constructs a psychological model of vocal music teaching. The model uses psychological data mining technology to conduct a feasibility study and analysis on the mental health education of vocal music students, solves the quantitative problem of mental health, and analyzes the relationship between psychological problems and students. In the simulation process, the psychological data of the vocal music freshmen of a certain college was taken as the research object, and the association rule Apriori algorithm was used to analyze the relationship between the factors of the psychological dimension. Psychological data mining was carried out, and descriptive indicators and univariate analysis methods were used to analyze the current situation of students' mental health and personality characteristics, and Pearson correlation analysis and structural equation model were used to explore the relationship between their mental health and personality characteristics. The amount of vocal music learning is the duration of the load and the total number of tasks completed within a single exercise or a series of exercises. ASP-NET and SQLServer2008 and other experimental results show that the chi-square test value of the overall fit of the model is 20.078, and the ratio of the chi-square value to the degree of freedom is 4.016, which has a relatively high accuracy and effectively enhances the psychological data mining technology in vocal music students for operation and practicality of applications in health data analysis.

Research on the Teaching Quality Management of “Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy”

Xindi Applied Piano Pedagogy (XAPP) is one of the key achievements of Chinese music education reform in recent years, reflecting the booming of piano education in China. Twenty years after its establishment, the pedagogy has been widely accepted by society. Based on the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle, the paper studies XAPP in relation to teaching quality management, hoping to achieve quality teaching results by improving teaching models and quality. In order to investigate the XAPP teaching process, a closed-loop management on XAPP’s teaching quality is formed, and the questions are divided into different modules: teaching team building, curriculum design, course in effect, teaching materials selection, teacher assessment and rectification, customer satisfaction survey, as well as teaching evaluation and feedback. The application of the PDCA cycle in XAPP’s teaching quality management is then analyzed, with an aim to optimize applied piano teaching management and improve XAPP’s teaching system, curriculum design, teaching materials, and theoretical framework. This paper also studies XAPP from a management perspective, which not only promotes the development of music education, but also expands the research field of music education management.

Piano education online: Challenges and solutions.

The research objectives are as follows: to consider the possibilities of modern digital technologies in education; to assess the impact of digital technology on the study of a work of art. The study results show the advantages and disadvantages of the WeChat software and the MOOC application, obtained on the basis of a survey of students. According to the WeChat software, 100% of students said they use the app. According to 100% (328 students) of the respondents, the advantage is free use; 98% (321 students) noted learning flexibility and ease of use; 85% (279 students) reported high quality sound and image; 83% (272 students) appreciated instant messages; 75% (246 students) enjoyed integrated screen sharing during conversation; 65% (213 students) reported call recording; 25% (82 students) enjoyed phone calls and protection of private conversations. According to 46% of respondents (151 students), the disadvantages are delay and poor audio quality at the beginning of communication; 42% (138 students) - inaccessibility to other incoming calls during a conversation; 35% (115 students) - difficulties associated with reading a text message received during a video chat; 20% (66 students) - lack of round-the-clock technical support.