FEEL THE MUSIC: ENGAGING PUPILS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC APPRECIATION THROUGH SOCIAL MULTIMEDIA AND EMOTIONS

Abstract

Music teachers in secondary schools are facing a great challenge when attempting to successfully engage pupils in classical music appreciation. Moreover, the technology-enhanced learning sector has for a long time neglected to address the specific needs of teaching and learning music. We propose an approach that relies on different hypotheses: nowadays, classical music needs to be a global experience, combining audio and visual media; classical music is contemporary (many recent movies include classical music in their soundtrack) and generates emotions; pupils need to be active and creative even though they are not able to compose or create music. The result has been developed as an educational social media platform that engages pupils in creative multimedia activities organized around the emotions that music can elicit. Emotions are used as a common ground and language shared between teachers and pupils. Different experiments and results have been conducted to evaluate the approach.

 

 

Index Terms - Classical music, emotions, film, music appreciation, social learning, social multimedia.