Designing Music
Creating musical compositions, or just tapping out a tune,
involves design processes. In MOVIE 1, listen to MIT's
Jeanne Bamberger, author of Investigating Musical Intuitions,
describes how an initial musical inspiration, basic intuitions,
reflection-in-action, and Conversations-With-Materials
can be done by very young students or the MIT undergraduates
she teaches.
Jeanne tells of how creating music can lead to students
designing a written representation of the music that they
make. The authentic task here is to invent a scheme so
that another person could play the tune at a later time.
This kind of task also gives students a window to reflecting
not only on their designing but on their own learning
as well.
If you want to explore this kind of design task, go
to the www.tuneblocks.com website to get a shortened
version of her book, Developing Musical Intuitions,
and the software she and others have been developing
for more than a decade to enable anyone to explore their
own learning and designing while creating music without
formal training.
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