A Social Platform designed for Music: Learning and Making Compositions Through Collaboration

摘要

In music, the score has always been the main instrument used for the transcription, performance, and composition. There exist several systems for transcribing and composing music scores. Although there are a number of evolved systems for composing music scores, they generally lack of (1) collaborative mechanisms, to allow composers to share their contributions and look for other author's compositions, and (2) communication mechanisms, to allow composers to become an active part of the composition process of other composers, by messaging and sharing contents. Generally, musicians take advantage of the most social media systems to implement these features, such as Facebook. Twitter. Instagrarm, and Linkedin. In this work, we introduce SoMusic, a Social platform designed for collaboration and learning. In addition to the main features provided by the most important social networks, SoMusic allows musicians to collaborate, simultaneously create a musical composition (in a concurrent manner), and to find other composers with a similar composition style. Social collaboration is the key aspect for increasing the musical quality productivity, where musicians participate in the discussions, learn in the web classrooms, cocreate music compositions, and share musical ideas. Furthermore, SoMusic proposes itself as an educational support tool allowing teachers to create online classes, to monitor the performance of students, and to interact with them in real-time. We involved 20 participants to analyze SoMusic effectiveness, usability, and the overall user satisfaction. We split the people involved in the evaluation study in two classes: one class with a traditional teaching approach and the other one using SoMusic. On average, participants that tested SoMusic produced music with fewer errors.