El oyente musical.

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Los gustos musicales de nuestros alumnos : factores que determinan el gusto por la música clásica.

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Desarrollo y aplicación de un programa de educación musical en el ciclo inicial.

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Educación musical.

Proyecto de educación musical aplicado en los primeros años escolares (Preescolar y Ciclo Inicial de EGB). En preescolar se realiza de forma continua, esto es, diariamente y dentro del horario escolar. Mientras que en el ciclo inicial se emplean cuatro horas a la semana. Se formulan, entre otros, los siguientes objetivos: favorecer la percepción espacio-temporal por medio del ritmo; potenciar el conocimiento del propio cuerpo y el desarrollo de la coordinación motriz; y fomentar el gusto por la música. Para conseguir estos objetivos se divide el trabajo en seis campos de acción: educación auditiva, vocal, psicomotricidad, educación rítmica, expresión corporal y formación instrumental. De acuerdo con esta división se han realizado las siguientes actividades: observación de los ruidos que nos rodean y reconocimiento de los mismos; distinguir el sonido de algunos instrumentos musicales; cantar rimas populares utilizando sólo dos sonidos; e interpretar con la flauta canciones sencillas. En líneas generales la experiencia se ha adecuado al proyecto. Ha habido ligeras variaciones en la temporalización prevista debido a que algunos gurpos persentaban un nivel inicial superior al esperado. Incluye en anexos trabajos realizados por los alumnos.

Acompañamiento musical en el aula.

La canción infantil constituye una de las bases más importantes sobre las que se apoya la educación musical. Por ello, se considera necesaria la formación de maestros creativos que potencien las facultades y desarrollen el gusto y la sensibilidad del niño por esta actividad. Se incluye un listado de piezas infantiles propias para la Educación Primaria.

Educación musical en la escuela : sugerencias didácticas sobre los niveles mínimos.

Se dan unas recomendaciones para que, aprovechando el gusto y la aptitud de los niños hacia la música, el maestro enseñe esta actividad a los niños del tercer curso de primaria. En estos consejos, se advierte que la vocalización realizada por el educador ha de ser perfecta y los sonidos han de emitirse con claridad y sin esfuerzos guturales; además, se indican modelos de canciones infantiles que carecen de dificultades musicales para los niños de esas edades.

Una lección para desarrollar el sentido estético-musical.

Se describe una lección cuyas finalidades son despertar el gusto artístico musical del niño, presentar al compositor de música como un hombre con un sentido superior y desarrollar el respeto a otras civilizaciones. Para ello se utiliza una grabación musical reproducida en un tocadiscos o magnetófono.

El autobús musical

Seleccionado en la convocatoria: Proyectos de innovación e investigación educativa de centros docentes de niveles no universitarios, Gobierno de Aragón 2012-2013

La influencia del musical americano en Gutiérrez Soto

El cine ha sido pionero del gusto artístico, de la moda y, en ocasiones, de nuevas imágenes arquitectónicas. Piénsese, por ejemplo, en la ciudad futurista de Fritz Lang para Metrópolis (1926), o en la arquitectura aerodinámica del film Things to Come (1936). Sin embargo, la traslación de esas imágenes al mundo real no siempre fue inmediata. Una de las pocas excepciones son las películas musicales americanas de los años treinta, que dejaron su huella en la arquitectura d los dancing o salas de fiesta. Tal es el caso del Casablanca Dancing-Salón de té, una obra de Gutiérrez Soto hoy desaparecida.

Generation in context : an exploratory method for musical enquiry

This paper discusses a method, Generation in Context, for interrogating theories of music analysis and music perception. Given an analytic theory, the method consists of creating a generative process that implements the theory in reverse. Instead of using the theory to create analyses from scores, the theory is used to generate scores from analyses. Subjective evaluation of the quality of the musical output provides a mechanism for testing the theory in a contextually robust fashion. The method is exploratory, meaning that in addition to testing extant theories it provides a general mechanism for generating new theoretical insights. We outline our initial explorations in the use of generative processes for music research, and we discuss how generative processes provide evidence as to the veracity of theories about how music is experienced, with insights into how these theories may be improved and, concurrently, provide new techniques for music creation. We conclude that Generation in Context will help reveal new perspectives on our understanding of music.

Eco-structure data forms : classification of data analysis using perceived design affordances for musical outcomes

This paper explores a method of comparative analysis and classification of data through perceived design affordances. Included is discussion about the musical potential of data forms that are derived through eco-structural analysis of musical features inherent in audio recordings of natural sounds. A system of classification of these forms is proposed based on their structural contours. The classifications include four primitive types; steady, iterative, unstable and impulse. The classification extends previous taxonomies used to describe the gestural morphology of sound. The methods presented are used to provide compositional support for eco-structuralism.

Changing musical emotion : a computational rule system for modifying score and performance

When communicating emotion in music, composers and performers encode their expressive intentions through the control of basic musical features such as: pitch, loudness, timbre, mode, and articulation. The extent to which emotion can be controlled through the systematic manipulation of these features has not been fully examined. In this paper we present CMERS, a Computational Music Emotion Rule System for the control of perceived musical emotion that modifies features at the levels of score and performance in real-time. CMERS performance was evaluated in two rounds of perceptual testing. In experiment I, 20 participants continuously rated the perceived emotion of 15 music samples generated by CMERS. Three music works, each with five emotional variations were used (normal, happy, sad, angry, and tender). The intended emotion by CMERS was correctly identified 78% of the time, with significant shifts in valence and arousal also recorded, regardless of the works’ original emotion.

View from a bridge : what makes a musical city

The attention paid by the British music press in 1976 to the release of The Saints first single “I’m Stranded” was the trigger for a commercial and academic interest in the Brisbane music scene which still has significant energy. In 2007, Brisbane was identifed by Billboard Magazine as a “hot spot” of independent music. A place to watch. Someone turned a torch on this town, had a quick look, moved on. But this town has always had music in it. Some of it made by me. So, I’m taking this connection of mine, and working it into a contextual historical analysis of the creative lives of Brisbane musicians. I will be interviewing a number of Brisbane musicians. These interviews have begun, and will continue to be be conducted in 2011/2012. I will ask questions and pursue memories that will encompass family, teenage years, siblings, the suburbs, the city, venues, television and radio; but then widen to welcome the river, the hills and mountains, foes and friends, beliefs and death. The wider research will be a contextual historical analysis of the creative lives of Brisbane musicians. It will explore the changing nature of their work practices over time and will consider the notion, among other factors, of ‘place’ in both their creative practice and their creative output. It will also examine how the presence of the practitioners and their work is seen to contribute to the cultural life of the city and the creative lives of its citizens into the future. This paper offers an analysis of this last notion: how does this city see its music-makers? In addition to the interviews, over 300 Brisbane musicians were surveyed in September 2009 as part of a QUT-initiated recorded music event (BIGJAM). Their responses will inform the production of this paper.

Scaffolding children’s musical creativity : a case of a kindergarten teacher in Hong Kong

Drawn from a larger mixed methods study, this case study provides an account of aspects of the music education programme that occurred with one teacher and a kindergarten class of children aged three and four years. Contrary to transmission approaches that are often used in Hong Kong, the case depicts how musical creativity was encouraged by the teacher in response to children’s participation during the time for musical free play. It shows how the teacher scaffolded the attempts of George, a child aged 3.6 years to use musical notation. The findings are instructive for kindergarten teachers in Hong Kong and suggest ways in which teachers might begin to incorporate more creative approaches to musical education. They are also applicable to other kindergarten settings where transmission approaches tend to dominate and teachers want to encourage children’s musical creativity.