Encyclopedia of classical music.
Victor A. Abramian, D.Sc.of Performing Arts,
Moscow State Tchaykovsky Conservatoire
Russia, Moscow.
Introduction.
1. Enciclopedia: contents of the project.
2. Screen. Hypertext. Font size. Bookmark.
3.Navigator
4 Quiz
5 Articles
6 The excursions
7 Chronology
8 Dictionary
9 Audio
10 Video
I1 Animations
Cognitive process in education
becomes more activity in using multimedia
technologies, giving the teachers and students
deep more and universality of learning the
object of studies.
Project, developed by group of Russian music
educators, teachers and software specialists
with common named "Encyclopedia of
classical music".
Two multimedia projects on classical music
has been done by this group of authors during
last two years: "Encyclopedia of classical
music", "The Masterpieces of Music". They
addressed to the wide range of users and
adapted to the process of education.
I.
The first Russian edition dedicated to
the history of classical music on CD-ROM
named "Encyclopedia of classical music", was
published last year in Moscow.
The project created as multimedia's
encyclopedia provided good opportunities in
cognitive process of any sides of classical
music. The plenty of audio and video records,
sound excursions, animations put the user into
wonderful world of classical music.
Combination of the materials of the project
formed on chronological and alphabetical
order. The opportunity to search the necessary
items or article provided by the navigation
system (Navigator) Menu of articles consists
the lists of genres, styles, music instruments,
names video and audio fragments, animations.
The hypertext links play important role in the
project
The project consists of a big amount
of sound fragments (more than 5 hours, 279
biographies of famous composers from Middle
Ages to the nowadays, more than 100
biographies of outstanding classical
performers. Video fragments of well-known
ballets and operas adds to the articles count
more than 200 music masterpieces, in the same
as many articles about various styles and
different epochs in history of music.
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ICMC Proceedings 1999
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