Enhancing Performance Music Games in Education through the IEEE 1599 Standard

Luca Andrea Ludovico^1, , Mario Malcangi¹ and Giuseppina Rita Mangione²

¹Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

²Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Ingegneria Elettrica e Matematica Applicata, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Cite this paper:
Luca Andrea Ludovico, Mario Malcangi and Giuseppina Rita Mangione. Enhancing Performance Music Games in Education through the IEEE 1599 Standard. American Journal of Educational Research. 2014; 2(7):486-492. doi: 10.12691/education-2-7-10

Abstract

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.

Keywords:
performance games music education IEEE 1599 meta-instruments

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