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Technology for

Music Education

Stefani Langol

Associate Professor

Music Education

Berklee College of Music

[email protected]

Benefits of Using Technology

Provides teachers with Performance Assessment and Authentic Assessment tools

The use of technology promotes CREATIVITY - gives students control of their musical and artist

vision

Technology can provide an alternative means of expression for students who learn best

through spatial, musical, or kinesthetic intelligences

Project-Based Learning using technology promotes Cross-Curricular and

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Technology can make certain aspects of the music curriculum more exciting for

students

Benefits of Using Technology

Technology can provide opportunities for students which would be difficult using traditional

teaching materials

Supports Differentiated Instruction

Many of the projects in a typical music technology environment are the perfect training for

the future economy: A Creativity-based economy vs. an Information-based economy

Provides teachers with great advocacy tools for arts in education

Curricular Applications

Recording tool: Rehearsals and Concerts

Assignment-Based student composition, songwriting, and arranging

Desktop Music Production tool:

Generate and develop musical ideas | Record musical ideas | Edit and Arrange musical

material |Add Effects and Mix | Distribute music via AIFF and MP3

Audio, Video and Enhanced Podcasts:

Demonstrate knowledge of musical, historical, theoretical, and performance techniques

Create original music for school plays, videos, poetry readings, dance, multimedia projects

(PowerPoint, KeyNote, Podcasts, Web Pages)

Easily combine art forms - music, art, video, movement - into one project

Students can create portfolios of their work

Practice Tool: “music-minus-one” tracks, record practice sessions

Demonstrate musical concepts such as

form, dynamics, tempo, texture

Electronic Musical Instruments

• Used in labs for creating, performing and improvising

music

• Replace missing instruments or add instruments to

various ensembles

Music Tech Teacher

Karen Garrett

http://musictechteacher.com/

• Keyboard Skills

• Alternative Performance Ensembles:

Electro-acoustic or electronic

Applications:

Music Production

DAW Software (Digital Audio Workstation)MIDI: Software Instruments and External MIDI

Digital Audio: Recorded audio via a mic or line-in instrument

Editing: MIDI and Audio

Digital Signal Processing (effects such as

reverb, chorus, delay, etc...)

Mixing

Music Production

• Arranging and Composition

• Create accompaniments (music-minus-one) for practice and performance

• Create audio files for posting on the web

or burning on CDs

• Create media for multimedia projects -

podcasts, presentations (PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi)

Applications:

Notation

Applications:

• Composition Projects - using a wide variety of composition techniques

(i.e., contrapuntal devices, theme and variation, canon, layering, pedal

point, etc.)

• Composing Original Music

• Editing and Modifying Existing Pieces - (i.e., transposition, adding or

changing expressive elements, adding chords, changing timbres, re-

harmonization, etc.)

Instructional SoftwareApplications:

• Provide Motivation

• Provide Individualized Instruction

• Enhance Independent Learning

Multimedia

Applications:

• Cross-curricular

• Web (i.e., web pages, blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc.)

• Produce digital media projects (i.e., digital audio, digital video)

• Score music to video

Software

DAW:Audio/MIDI

Notation

GarageBand -

Mac

Mixcraft - PC

• Reason - Mac & PC

Finale - Mac & PC

Sibelius - Mac & PC

•Not

Apple’s iLife

Creative Suite

Software

Multimedia -

Text, Audio, Video, Graphics/Photographs, Web

Apple’s iLife - Mac & PC

• Adobe Creative Suite - Mac & PC

• Web Applications

•Freeware and Shareware

Many options to suit various curricular needs

Hardware

Electronic Musical Instruments

Handheld Recorder

Digital Cameras: Still and Video

Computer

Microphone

Headphones

External Hard Drive

Thank You!

Stefani Langol

Associate Professor

Berklee College of Music

[email protected]