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INTRODUCING THE 6TH GRADE STUDENTS TO COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR NOTATION AND AUDIO EDITING THROUGH AN ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOK

2017; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

2545-4439

Krasimira Georgieva Fileva – Ruseva,

Innovative Educational Technologies

The electronic music textbook is a version of the print, which, in addition to its full pages, includes both the musical works intended for perception and the songs chosen for learning and performance. To this obligatory content in the electronic music textbook for the sixth grade of the general education school in Bulgaria, which I will analyze (Music for the 6th grade of Publishing House Prosveta +), the songs intended for performance by the students are recorded in two versions with the solo party, and only the instrumental accompaniment to be used to accompany the student performances. Along with this, there are many varied tasks, questions, additional information on the subject of a particular class, castings, puzzles, crossword puzzles, games. The purpose of this richness of resources is to bring the new information as accessible, interesting, attractive as possible, so that the sixth graders can master it permanently, reliably and with pleasure.According to the music curriculum for 6th grade approved by the Ministry of Education and Science in Bulgaria, students should acquire the skills to download information, music, and also to use computer programs for notation and audio editing.For this purpose, free computer programs have been selected in the electronic music textbook so that each student can get them without costing him extra money. The software that is recommended for study is accessible, intuitive, many of the important features are visible in the main window, i.e. there is no need to spend too much time to search them. The most used buttons have a similar view to those on music readers, which further provides support for the initial launch of the program. Thus, the first, surface impressions of it are of a means that will be easily recognizable and applicable, useful and fun, not inaccessible and repulsive.In Bulgaria there are children from small villages, respectively with little chances to get familiar to computers and the Internet, as well as not many students whose mother language is not Bulgarian and who have difficulty with any new information. Many of these children are not motivated to study and very often leave school as soon as possible. For these reasons, it is particularly important to make learning information easily accessible, even if it refers to computer software; to be taught intriguingly and fascinatingly.For training needs have been selected the following computer programs MuseScore for notation and recording of note text as a sound file; and Audacity for audio editing and vocal removal from recording. At first, the way to acquire these programs is explained in detail where and how to search them in the internet and how to install them. Following are fun exercises on downloaded music files from the Internet by students' choice, from which to remove the solo party and use the resulting accompaniment for their own performances, as well as an example of a short phrase from a samba that six class students to rewrite in MuseScore, to save the melody as a sound file, to choose an appropriate timbre for its accompaniment, to write it, and to add simulated accompanying timbres in Audacity. The authors of the electronic textbook recommend that students work, divided into several teams, and then organize a contest for the best audio editing.