COLORING-IN PIANO: A PIANO THAT ALLOWS A PERFORMER TO CONCENTRATE ON MUSICAL EXPRESSION
Chika Oshima, Yohei Miyagawa, Kazushi Nishimoto · 2002
In a piano lesson, a teacher teaches a way of performance by providing indirect cues, e.g., metaphors and singing. A model performance is one of the important cues. Meanwhile, it is difficult even for the teacher to perform a very technical piece without enough practice, even if he/she had formerly performed it. However, the teacher still retains his/her knowledge for performing the piece. Accordingly, we propose “Coloring-in Piano (CiP) ” to support a piano lesson. CiP frees the performers from heavy labor of accurate reproduction of described melody and miss-touches. Therefore, CiP allows them to immediately concentrate on musical expression that is essential for the performers, which facilitates the teacher to show his/her musical knowledge to the pupil. We conducted experiments to subjectively evaluate the performances with Coloring-in Piano