ABSTRACT

The recent development of VST and VSTi has opened the possibilities of quality music listening education by overcoming its limitations in timbres. The purpose of this study was to produce a music listening teaching and learning tool and lesson plans for elementary music classes using VST and VSTi. For this study one VSTi (Edirol Orchestra) and three VSTs (Cubase SX 5.0, Reverence and Maximizer) were employed. After setting up the system, the researchers chose the repertoire and developed the music listening education tool through the processes of note inputting, expression controls, velocity regulations, mixing and mastering. Then four lesson plans were designed according to the Revised 7th National Music Curriculum. The resultant MIDI orchestration showed the new possibilities of music listening education not only by quality timber but by the diverse possibilities of tempo, modulation, dynamics and instrumental parts changes, which were possible in traditional audio tools.

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