An application to present the Virtual Music lab - a place where you can

1. Taking Cultural Music Education Online
Virtual Lab for
Music
Tejaswinee Kelkar
Anon Ray
Venkatesh Choppella

2. Lorem Ipsum Dolor
Music Education
in India for the
Web

3. What does Indian Music Sound
like?

4. What do musicologists study
about it?
❖ In the West
❖ Styles and structures
❖ Ethnography
❖ Appreciation methods
❖ In India
❖ Gharanas / families
❖ Repertoire
❖ New tonal material

5. Where is all the knowledge?
❖ Written form
❖ Oral Tradition and passing
down by memory

6. Examples of repositories, source
material

8. Changing Musical
Pedagogy
Gurukul System
University system - but no reliable
notation
What does Research require?
How to supplement educational needs
with archiving needs?

9. Music Education
in India
Many of the musicians who have
died recently or are very will take
their knowledge to the grave.
To sit at the feet of the master the
whole day, every day, for years and
years, is rapidly becoming a social
and economic impossibility. Those
who intend to become musicians
will have to take lessons a few
times a week and improve their
skills by practising at home.
The result however is that they
improve their technical ability but
their insight into the foundations of
the music remains shaky.
- Meer, W. Teaching Indian Music, Coping
with a changing environment. In the
Journal Sangeet Natak 79, January-March
1986, pp. 53-57

10. Three Prongs
❖ Focusing ontologies and
annotations towards the use
case of music pedagogy
❖ Linking content through stable
and sufficient descriptors
❖ Ease in generating datasets
from open data

11. Ontologies
Categories:
Pitch (Svar / Raag)
Rhythm (Taal)
Form / Structure
Ornamentation
Stylistic

12. Three Pronged Architecture
Architecture Annotations and ontologies as
the backbone
Alipi Tool Suite

13. Semantic Web
Tweets
The anatomy of a SWT is as
follows:
@user #context /resource
{attributes}

14. Applications
Experiments
Currently 14 experiments hosted

15. Other Applications
Creating Quizzes
Quiz creation through the addition of rule
based constraints
Addition of propositional logic tables for
complex and inference-based question
creation

16. Demo

17. 3 Test Users use lab for one week and
report
User Profiles
Performing Musician - User 1 was a musician who
sings with a band, but did not formally study music.
Quizzes and Ear training drills most useful.
Intermediate Musician - User 2 has studied music
for many years, but not recently. Regaining
musicianship strength primary motive.
Novice - User 3 is an avid music lover and listener.
Initial walkthrough experiments most useful.

18. Pre-post test scores for 12 users over 4
days
User Study
Pre lab use and post user experiments for
analyzing the scores obtained by 12
participants in the period of 4 days, solving
20 questions per day for 4 different tests.
Significant difference (0.011, 0.035, 0.19,
0.001) between before and after practise
scores of the 12 participants taken over 4
days.
Same or different notes Pitch Height
Note Naming MajorNote Naming: 1, 4, 5

19. Links
Web Facebook Twitter
http://music.virtual-labs.ac.in facebook.com/musicvirtuallab twitter.com/musicvlab

20. Thank you!