Successful workshop on music software

Purpose of the Workshop interviewed Using specialized software to support the teaching of music, conducted this week as part of the Summer School SPAUAZ UAZ-2011, the master Alfonso Vazquez Sosa, one of the speakers, spoke of the great interest generated in this activity, however it is still little acceptance for the use of technology in music teaching.

The business, based in the Computer Center of the Academic Unit of Music, was given also by Arturo Garcia Cuellar and Antonio Sigala Murga, academics in the same campus, with the ultimate goal of "persuading teachers to use new technologies teaching support, "he said in an interview the teacher Vazquez Sosa.

Although there is little acceptance for use of technology in teaching music, "said the pianist and music teacher, a workshop in great demand, to the extent that the interest generated, has requested a second edition. This would also give opportunity to other teachers who could not attend due to limited quota.

According to the interviewed students today have access to much information and have many tools and computer skills. Contrary to what happens with teachers, who have held a little "sections" of new technologies.

Sosa Vazquez acknowledged that although the vast majority have telephones and computers, laptop or desktop, give them a use "limited to these resources, just like a typewriter."

For this reason, the workshop is a review of the equipment they have to determine what options and what features they have to help in communicating with students, review and record your classes, etc.. It also makes a journey through all new software there, and the characteristics of each. "Therefore every teacher can decide which to incorporate."

We focus, "he went on to review the various software for music and those that are basic tools" on how we can benefit them and adapt them to be instruments to accompany the teacher during all classes. "

About the benefits of using specialized software for teaching music, Alfonso Vazquez said they may be many, including "that allows to realize the characteristics of the environment through measuring temperature, humidity and the altitude, in order to know what risks they may run the instruments. "



This considering the fact that this discipline depends on the reactions to the environment, as musical instruments and human voices react to temperature and humidity, Sosa Vazquez said.

On the other hand, said the software can check the tuning digitally by measuring the frequencies and intensities. "This is a way to verify that what we do naturally is right."

Likewise, the use of technologies enables "stay connected with peers, with colleagues from around the world. They are tools that come to solve many problems, especially when it comes to interpreting compositions of living authors, as we contact them and make inquiries about the composition, "concluded the master Alfonso Vazquez Sosa.