Teaching Music With Technology
A Concept Whose Time Has Come
Thomas Rudolph, Ed. D.
Director of Music
School District of Haverford Township
Email: TERudolph@aol.com
presentation slides available at:
www.ti-me.org/mokeynote
Results of using technology
Training 3000+ music educators
1. Productive tools for teachers
2. Creative and performance tools for
students
3. Not a panacea
The music curriculum of the
future:
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Performance ensembles (performers):
 About
the same (chorus, band, orch.)
 Students/teachers using technology to enhance
learning, creativity, performance.
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General music classes (consumers)
 Incorporate
technology as tools or crayons for
music education: electronic instrument labs,
computers, internet, and multimedia.
In Fine Arts, students in
Missouri public schools will….
acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of…
1. process and techniques for the production, exhibition or
performance of one or more of the visual or performed arts.
2. the principles and elements of different art forms
3. the vocabulary to explain perceptions about and evaluations of
works in dance, music, theater and visual arts
4. interrelationships of visual and performing arts and the
relationships of the arts to other disciplines
5. visual and performing arts in historical and cultural contexts
Technology and the Missouri
Fine Arts Standards….
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Ask: how can technology be used to enhance the
Missouri Fine Arts Content standards?
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Evaluate: is it worth the investment in time,
training, and money?
The 7 areas of technology as
defined by TI:ME:
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1. Electronic Instruments
2. Music Notation Software
3. MIDI Sequencing
4. Computer-Assisted Instruction
5. Telecommunications and the Internet
6. Multimedia and Digital Media
7. Information Processing and Lab Mgt.
The Technology Institute for Music Educators
www.ti-me.org
1. Electronic Musical Instruments
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May Not:
 Replace acoustic instruments
 Replace existing ensembles (band, orchestra)
1. Electronic Musical Instruments
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May be used…
Fine Arts Standard #1 (process and techniques)
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As a versatile classroom performance instrument for
the consumers
As crayons for music education
Replace missing instruments in ensembles
Used in labs for performing, creating and improvising
music
Performance Ensembles - electronic and electo-acoustic
ensemble
2. Music Notation Software
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Missouri Fine Arts Standards 1 (process and
techniques) and 2 (principles and elements)
Applications:
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A teacher’s tool - arranging, composing and writing
warm-ups and methods
A student’s virtual staff
Used in the computer lab
or MIDI lab to enhance creativity
2. Music Notation Software
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Tools:
 Free
music software NotePad
– www.codamusic.com
 Sibelius
teaching tools
– www.sibelius.com/products/teaching_tools/
2. Music Notation Software
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Web Applications
Downloading MIDI files
– www.classicalarchives.com
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Posting files in Web Pages
– Scortch www.sibelius.com
– SmartMusic Showcase
– www.codamusic.com/coda/fs_home.asp
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Vermont MIDI Site
– www.vtmidi.org
Composers in Electronic Residence
– www.edu.yorku.ca/CIERmain.html/
3. MIDI Sequencing (recording)
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Fine Arts Standards #1 (process and techniques)
and #2 (principles and elements)
Applications:
 To create accompaniments for ensembles
 Create practice recordings for students
 A student’s tool to compose and arrange
music
3. MIDI Sequencing
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Support from publishers
 Silver Burdett - MIDI Connection and Making Music
with Technology
 MacGraw Hill - Music with MIDI
 SoundTree General Music Curriculum
How-To books on Sequencing
 ArtistPro.com
 Hal Leonard
 Berklee Press
 Warner Bros. Publications
4. Instructional Software:
practice and accompaniment
Fine Arts Standards #1 (process and techniques) and #2 (principles
and elements)
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Practice and Accompaniment
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Band-in-Box www.pgmusic.com
SmartMusic www.smartmusic.com
Web Delivery
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Band methods online
Practice online
www.haverford.k12.pa.us/jazz/index.html
4. Instructional Software:
Computer-Assisted Instruction
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Applications
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Enhance independent learning
Provide a motivational drill and practice medium:
music games
Individualized instruction.
4. Instructional Software:
(Computer-Assisted Instruction)
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New Trends:
 Interactive software
 www.harmonicvision.com
Use of CD-ROM to enhance sound output
 www.alfred.com
Web delivery
 www.creatingmusic.com
 Floyd Richmond’s list of educational sites:
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http://courses.wcupa.edu/frichmon/omea/
5. Multimedia & Digitized Media
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Applications:
Fine Arts Standard #4: interrelationships of visual and
performing arts and the relationships of the arts to other
disciplines
 Provide
a medium for curriculum integration
 Produce digital media projects
5. Multimedia & Digitized Media
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Digitized Media
 Digital recording software
 Self-contained recording devices
 FREE Protools software
www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
 Burning CDs
 Working with Digital audio
www.haverford.k12.pa.us/jazz/index.html
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Web Delivery:
 Download files from the net
 Share files with others via the net
6. Internet & Telecommunications
Standard #4: interrelationships of visual and performing arts and #5:
visual and performing arts in historical and cultural contexts
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Applications
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Link students and teachers to information throughout the world The ultimate communication tool
Provide a communication medium: web pages, e-mail, MIDI files,
distance learning
WebQuest
6. Internet & Telecommunications
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WebQuest
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the internet to explore historical
background of composers
www.educationworld.com
 Mozart WebQuest
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/mozart/Mozartquest.html
7. Information Processing,
Computer Sys., Lab Mgt.
Manage daily work more effectively.
 Teachers need a basic understanding of
computer systems and concepts.
 Teaching in a technology facility requires
technical knowledge.
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Publications…
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MENC Opportunity to Learn Standards for Music
Technology
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(www.menc.org/publication/books/techstan.htm)
Curriculum and Scheduling
Staffing, Equipment
Materials/Software
Facilities
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Technology Strategies for Music Education
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www.ti-me.org
Strategies for Teaching: Technology
 www.menc.org
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Training and Support
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Seek out training in the use of computers and
technology
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Technology Institute for Music Educators (www.time.org/ti-me/summer.html)
Attend state & national music education Conferences.
Join Music Education Technology Organizations:
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TI:ME (www.ti-me.org)
ATMI (www.music.org/atmi/default.htm)
TDML (http://music.utsa.edu/tdml/)
Action steps...
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Learn about technology - focus on how to use it in
innovative and productive ways.
Investigate how to integrate technology into the
music curriculum.
Seek out funding through technology budgets and
grants.