Aglaya Play: Designing a software solution for group compositions in the music classroom. Issue 2 (1st December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murillo, Adolf; Elena Riaño, María; Tejada, Jesús
• Is Part Of: Journal of music, technology & education. Volume 13:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 239
• Page End: 261
• Publication Date: 2020-12-01
• Subjects: Music and technology -- Periodicals; Music -- Instruction and study -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; 780.7
• DOI: 10.1386/jmte_00025_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1752-7066

Abstract

This article details the design for Aglaya Play, a proposed software system that aims to meet three basic needs in the music classroom: the incorporation of creative processes, the adoption of collaborative-cooperative strategies and the reduction of reading‐writing- and theory-based learning in the early stages of music education. The text contextualizes the needs that the software intends to meet and describes its phases of construction from a design-based research perspective. Finally, a full description of the system is offered based on its functions, and suggestions for its didactic implementation are provided.