Metode ARTS Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Keterampilan Solfegio Mahasiswa Prodi Pendidikan Musik di Jurusan Sendratasik FBS Universitas Negeri Padang

This study aims to describe the ARTS method as an effort to improve the solfegio skills of music study students in the Department of Drama, FBS, Padang State University. This research is a quasi-experimental research using descriptive analytic approach. The results of the study found that applying the four stages in the ARTS method could improve Solfegio skills, namely: (1) the preparation stage, namely designing the subject matter. (2) Presentation stage, namely the explanation of the concept of rhythm, interval, melody, and transfiguration of note units. (3) Practice stages or exercises, namely Audio, Reproduction, Transcription, and Sight-reading/ Sight-singing exercises. (4) Stages of performance, namely assessment. This research is expected to be a guide in learning solfegio, both at the elementary and tertiary levels

SIGHT SINGING SEBAGAI STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN INSTRUMEN PIANO DI PRODI PENDIDIKAN MUSIK ISI YOGYAKARTA

Sight Singing is the ability to read the notation and immediately sing the tune in accordance with the melody on the sheet music. Sight Singing is the activity of singing with solmisasi or movabel "do". This study aims to improve the ability to read beam notation in learning mandatory piano instruments using the Sight Singing approach. The Mandatory Piano Instrument course is one of the practical courses that must be taken by all Music Education Study Program students, ISI Yogyakarta. Not all new students in Music Education Study Program can read the beam notation, so this Piano Compulsory Instrument course course is always feared by students who have not read fluent notation. Sight singing as a strategy to enhance the learning of Piano Mandatory Instruments. This research is focused on the application of Sight singing in learning Mandatory Piano Instruments in Music Education Study Program. This research uses Classroom Action Research which can be categorized as a qualitative-experimental research by applying the Sight singing method. The results of this study are the learning process of the Mandatory Piano Instrument with the application of the Sight singing method more effectively to improve the ability to learn to read notation while playing the Piano Instrument, and students can be more expressing, impressed singing by accompanying themselves.

Research on the Model of Music Sight-Singing Guidance System Based on Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Guided Learning System (ITS) is a computer system that uses computers to imitate the experience and methods of teaching experts to assist in teaching; ITS provides learners with personalized learning resources and adaptive teaching methods, thus reducing students’ dependence on teachers and realizing independent learning. After years of research and development, and with the help of artificial intelligence technology, ITS has basically formed a stable structure and unified implementation specifications and has given birth to many excellent products in disciplines such as basic computer, language, medicine, and mathematics. Based on the above background, this paper takes the system structure of universal ITS as the basis, combines the characteristics of music sight-singing subject in teaching contents and teaching methods, researches the intelligent guidance system model of music sight-singing, and completes the design of the overall system architecture. The specific strategies and implementation methods of the teaching methods, resource recommendation, and ability assessment components of the teaching model are studied. The research includes the definition of the difficulty characteristics of the score, the design of the score recommendation algorithm, the design of the sight-singing scoring algorithm, and the experimental analysis of each algorithm. It is proposed that the difficulty feature-based score recommendation algorithm is the core component of resource recommendation in the teacher model, and the sight-singing scoring algorithm is the basis for ability assessment and learner model update.

Improving Students’ Aural Skills on the AP Music Theory Exam

In the past six years, more than 40,000 students have failed the AP Music Theory Exam. Students have struggled especially when sight-singing or taking melodic dictation in compound meter and minor tonality. Research has shown that students can improve these specific aural skills through learning pitch and rhythm patterns, improvisation activities, and learning from musical literature. This article includes research-based practical applications for helping students improve their aural skills for the AP Music Theory Exam.

MODERN APPROACHES TO TEACHING SIGHT SINGING AND EAR TRAINING

Sight singing and ear training are difficult subjects to teach. Over the past decade, however, many new technological tools were developed that support educational endeavors. Several of those tools, SmartMusic, SingSnap, EarTrainer (MusicDictation.app), and YouTube, were used at the beginning college-level aural skills courses to enhance sight singing and ear training instruction, especially in the context of enhancing audiation skills. This article summarizes their use within aural skills courses and present experimental and anecdotal evidence of increased sight singing and ear training skills. More specifically, experimental (test) data as well as anecdotal (essay) evidence showed that (1) students were much higher motivated to complete exercises compared to ‘traditional’ aural skills exercises, (2) in a shorter period of time, students performed much better than in ‘traditional’ exercises of at least the same difficulty, (3) the students’ audiation abilities increased much more as a result of the exercises, compared to ‘traditional’ exercises, and (4) students showed a greater increase in solfege proficiency, compared to ‘traditional’ exercises. The teaching approaches we have discussed also led to a greater independence from in-person instruction.

PENERAPAN METODE SOLFEGIO DALAM PEMBELAJARAN KOOR

This article discusses about the application of the solfegio method in the Choir Course. This article is a descriptive qualitative research. The lecturer applies the solfegio sight singing and ear training method by demonstration about warming up, breathing body, humming, vocalizing, and how to sing the rhythm and melody. The study result that applies the solfegio sight singing and ear training method by demonstration can improve the student skills in tune, sing rhythm and melody properly and precisely in accordance with time signature and song tempo of the Tolite Hostias and Praise His Holy Name.

Strategic approaches to learning sight-singing at college level: An investigation using Q Methodology

This research investigates the main strategic approaches used by students for learning sight-singing in aural skills training. Using Q method, 41 college-level music students were invited to think about the importance of a wide range of strategies for their sight-singing acquisition. Factor analysis revealed three main strategic approaches: the pragmatic approach, the analytic approach, and the sound-first approach. Post hoc analyses indicated that these strategic approaches do not provide a valid typology of music students; rather, they reveal underlying conceptions about the purposes of sight-singing, which are likely to evolve according to an individual’s musical training. For sight-singing strategy instruction, these findings offer new insights for understanding better the influence of students’ prior musical knowledge on their use of sight-singing strategies. The discussion highlights the need for (re)establishing clear educational expectations that are capable of fulfilling teachers’ musical ideals.