Music Technology and Education: Amplifying Musicality

Abstract

Music Technology and Education: Amplifying Musicality lays out principles of music technology and how they can be used to enhance music teaching and learning. The book provides an overview of the field in sufficient detail to extend the reader's knowledge of, and engagement with, music technologies in a variety of ways. The book discusses relevant educational and philosophical concepts that guide the use of music technologies in education and provide a framework for curriculum design. It outlines ways in which contemporary technologies can assist learning and teaching across a wide range of musical activities including performance, composition, recording, listening, and scholarship. This second edition has been significantly reorganized and streamlined, to include up to date information and advice about technologies and music education that take into account contemporary trends including networked and mobile computing and advances in online learning.