eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2333-4770 2014-07-02 2 7 486 492 10.12691/education-2-7-10 EDUCATION20142710 article Luca Andrea Ludovico ludovico@di.unimi.it 1 Mario Malcangi 1 Giuseppina Rita Mangione 2 Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Ingegneria Elettrica e Matematica Applicata, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy This work aims at proposing an innovative way to approach music education, focusing performance games and advanced natural interfaces. The key idea is coupling the power of IEEE 1599, an XML-based international standard for music description, with the concept of music meta-instrument. Meta-instruments are ad hoc interfaces which allow a simplified interaction among the student and music contents. The proposed framework will provide a tool for music practice, powered by the typical features of an IEEE 1599 document. Both a brief overview of the standard and a meta-instrument case study will be presented. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/2/7/10/education-2-7-10.pdf performance games music education IEEE 1599 meta-instruments