Computer graphical score and music education: Application to music animation machine MIDI player

This paper shows how a graphical score has greater effect on music education than the traditional score in general courses at a university level. Generally students have difficulty in understanding music scores, thus music courses as a general selective at the university level need to provide them efficient ways to understand music. In this regard, a computer graphical score using a MIDI player is a very effective way to make students understand music structure and movement fast and accurately overcoming limitations in music class through only listening audio. Thus, this paper investigates how this computer technique can be used for music classes and discusses various cases a MIDI player plays a role in music education.