A Color Music Notation System of Single Melody for Music Beginners

• Main Authors: Kuo, Yi-Ting, 郭怡婷
• Other Authors: Chuang, Ming-Chuen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22676085414587299734

博士 === 國立交通大學 === 應用藝術研究所 === 101 === Music teachers often encounter obstructions in teaching music beginners in music reading. Conventional notational symbols require muic beginners to spend significant amount of time in memorizing, which discourages learning at early stage. This article proposes a newly developed color music notation system that may improve the recognition of the staff and the numbered musical notation for music beginners. Single melodies are the focus that are relatively easy for music beginners to read and to play, which may increase students’ confidence at the first step of music learning. The color music notation system that associates color music scores with color and music synesthesia by human vision and audition is proposed. Pitch, duration, range, and intensity of music elements are coded as colors, lattices, graphs, and shape sizes, respectively. Based on the twelve notes, we adopt the Itten color wheel and the natural color system with twelve primary colors to retain colors accurately when the notation is reproduced. In this paper, the authors design a new “color music notation system” to improve the disadvantages of staff, and this system is to be an assistant tool of music reading to help music beginners in music learning. We hope music beginners who can promote their learning abilities of music reading, incluing read scores quickly, play music pieces simply, raise interest in music, inspire their pleasure, and improve achievement in music reading and playing. The purpose is in order to compare the effects of music reading and playing between the staff and the color music notation. The method is to test 18 subjects that they have good vision and never learn music reading and piano playing. After the subjects learn the staff, the color-music notation, and the piano playing, and then the subjects adopt to sight-playing the different levels of the single-melodies of the staff and the color music notation of the two music pieces. Authors record the error numbers of pitch and duration, and they also ask subjects to fill out the form of questions of music arbitrary scales to inquire their opinions that are using effects and druthers of the two music notations. From the results of research findings, we can find the sight-playing error numbers in pitch and duration and music arbitrary scales in pitch, duration, range, and intensity that the using and learning effectives of the color music notation are better than the staff. Hopefully, music beginners can use the novel colored music scores to read and to play music quickly, accurately, and confidently.