Taking Cultural Music Education Online

Sangeetkosh - A Virtual Lab for Hindustani Music

Tejaswinee KelkarAnon RayVenkatesh Choppella

IIIT, Hyderabad and Janastu, Bangalore

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Music Education in India for the Web

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Music Education in India

Many of the musicians who have died recently or are very will take their knowledge to the grave. To sit at the feet of the master the whole day, every day, for years and years, is rapidly becoming a social and economic impossibility. Those who intend to become musicians will have to take lessons a few times a week and improve their skills by practising at home. The result however is that they improve their technical ability but their insight into the foundations of the music remains shaky.

- Meer, W. Teaching Indian Music, Coping with a changing environment. In the Journal Sangeet Natak 79, January-March 1986, pp. 53-57

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Changing Musical PedagogyGurukul System

University system - but no reliable notation

How to supplement music educational needs with the changing times?

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Where is all the knowledge?

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Voice

❖ Descriptive vs Prescriptive Notation

❖ Oral Tradition and passing down by memory

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Examples of repositories, source material

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What is lacking?

Music Semantics

Indexing metadata smaller than performance details

Datasets for tonal material and form and structure

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Sangeetkosh - Three Prongs

Annotations

Repository

Experiments

Annotations describe

repository

Experimentsuse annotated

repositories

Experimentsto annotate

content

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Experiments❖ Pitch Difference - Are two musical tones are the

same or different?❖ Pitch Direction - Which of the two musical tones is

higher?❖ Explore sargam - Explore notation, sargam, play

music!❖ Explore Thaats - Listen to the 10 Thaats❖ Name Svar - Identify names of star❖ Name String of Svar - Name svars in a row❖ Trace a melody - Trace a melodic phrase❖ Tabla or Dagga sound - Trace a melodic phrase❖ Hear Bols - Trace a melodic phrase❖ Raag Graph Interactive Visualization❖ Raga Quiz❖ Taal Quiz❖ Instrument Quiz❖ Lay Quiz

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Annotations

Focusing ontologies and annotations towards the use case of music pedagogy

Linking content through stable and sufficient descriptors

Ease in generating datasets from open data

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OntologiesCategories:Pitch (Svar / Raag) Rhythm (Taal)Form / StructureOrnamentationStylistic

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Three Pronged Architecture

Architecture Annotations and ontologies as the backbone

Alipi Tool Suite

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Annotating through SWTs

The anatomy of a SWT is as follows: @user \#context /resource {attributes}

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Other Applications

Creating Quizzes

Quiz creation through the addition of rule based constraints

Addition of propositional logic tables for complex and inference-based question creation

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Demo

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3 Test Users use lab for one week and report

User Profiles

Performing Musician - User 1 was a musician who sings with a band, but did not formally study music. Quizzes and Ear training drills most useful.

Intermediate Musician - User 2 has studied music for many years, but not recently. Regaining musicianship strength primary motive.

Novice - User 3 is an avid music lover and listener. Initial walkthrough experiments most useful.

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Pre-post test scores for 12 users over 4 days

User Study

Pre lab use and post user experiments for analyzing the scores obtained by 12 participants in the period of 4 days, solving 20 questions per day for 4 different tests.

Significant difference (0.011, 0.035, 0.19, 0.001) between before and after practise scores of the 12 participants taken over 4 days.

Same or different notes Pitch Height

Note Naming MajorNote Naming: 1, 4, 5

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Links

Web Facebook Twitterhttp://music.virtual-labs.ac.in facebook.com/musicvirtuallab twitter.com/musicvlab

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Thank you!

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