A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR LEARNING ANALYTIC LISTENING

This paper describes a computer tutorial system for helping students develop skills in analytic listening to music, based on a cognitive learning theory. The tutorial system encourages the development of a multi-faceted approach to analytic listening skills. Students' activities are viewed as heuristically-guided discovery, and are based on the concept of learning by rehearsal, where the student comes to understand the structure of the work, and to learn the work thoroughly by ear, using only the piece in its aural form and a graphic interface. He does this by using networks of concepts in a pictorial form to help "see" and remember musical relationships, by dealing with the piece's hierarchical temporal structure, and by working with the ordering of materials'm the work. The system uses a plan-based learning model, and collects protocols of student activities which can then be analyzed to further refine the system's tutorial aspects.