Paper Info
Title
The Harmonic Walk: An Interactive Physical Environment to Learn Tonal Melody Accompaniment
Abstract
The Harmonic Walk is an interactive physical environment designed for learning and practicing the accompaniment of a tonal melody. Employing a highly innovative multimedia system, the application offers to the user the possibility of getting in touch with some fundamental tonal music features in a very simple and readily available way. Notwithstanding tonal music is very common in our lives, unskilled people as well as music students and even professionals are scarcely conscious of what these features actually are. The Harmonic Walk, through the body movement in space, can provide all these users a live experience of tonal melody structure, chords progressions, melody accompaniment, and improvisation. Enactive knowledge and embodied cognition allow the user to build an inner map of these musical features, which can be acted by moving on the active surface with a simple step. Thorough assessment tests with musicians and nonmusicians high school students could prove the high communicative power and efficiency of the Harmonic Walk application both in improving musical knowledge and in accomplishing complex musical tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1155/2016/4027164
Adv. in MM
Field
DocType
Volume
Melody,Improvisation,Musical,Computer science,Harmonic,Embodied cognition,Speech recognition,Multimedia system,Chord (music)
Journal
2016
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1687-5680
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
marcella mandanici101.01
Antonio Rodà26114.61
Sergio Canazza310130.33