From the early 1980 decade, personal computer was produced and spread. Since the 1990s, it influences widely on education. This article aims to survey using computer in the field of music, first CD-Rom for musical education, and make a few CD-Rom for ...
From the early 1980 decade, personal computer was produced and spread. Since the 1990s, it influences widely on education. This article aims to survey using computer in the field of music, first CD-Rom for musical education, and make a few CD-Rom for appreciating sound and music score, then what kind of software we need for making personally material for education.
After reviewing the fundamentals of computer, I try to understand how the software for musical graphic and sound works. Writing music score on monitor by computer is a kind of graphic method, but music softwares, for example, Encore, Finale, Sibelius also need sound from that scores. In this point, music software is making sound system, which means controling the sound generating module. To make music score, there are two methods, one is compiling method and the other is WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) method. Compiling method shows the programming words on monitor and WYSIWYG the score itself.
For user's standpoint, I classify the music softwares on the base of (1) tool or final, (2) one way or both way, (3) data-processing or non-data-processing. First, tool is Encore and Finale, as Photoshop is same for designer and final is CD pluscore by Grammophon, which is one of the best examples. Second, one way is CD pluscore and both way is "Pratica Musica 4" and "Songworks Ⅱ" by Ars Nova Software co. Third, most of CD-Roms for music education are non-data-processing. We have the software of sightreading and dictating music, for example "Songworks Ⅱ" is primary stage of dictating music. In this case, we get my data-processing result.
Music software is now developing. Most of teachers in elementary school and middle school want to write music score in their word processor software or have plug-in software to write music and hearing on word processing page. We need such a software or plug-in program.
For this article, I made HTML, and PDF files in which we follow music score and listen music(Beethoven 32 piano sonatas and Chopin nocturns). You can see and listen it on my home page(http//:usoc.snu.ac.kr).