Euterpe

Abstract

This work focuses on the application of experimental multimedia in the field of music education. The end-system produced is a multimedia service designed to support music teachers who wish to generate and implement teaching scenarios, during their singing teaching session, as this progresses and evolves dynamically. The system allows them to adjust on the fly their educational content, in order to cover their classroom needs that evolve continuously during practice. The end-system combines a fully searchable multimedia database complemented by an access process designed to serve constantly changing content requirements. Most importantly, the system is designed to provide meaningful teaching-learning scenarios with the appropriate content on demand, through the implementation of a task-specific system-as-a-service access method. This chapter provides a walk through the most important characteristics of the process from the content expert perspective. This information was actively employed by developers enabling the system parameterization to cover the functional requirements of the teaching-learning process.