The Music and Creativity Research Group (GIUV2016-340)

The members of this research group have a long established track record in different fields of music: psychology, cognition, technology, didactics and creativity. This is reflected in an extensive quality scientific production (publications in journals of impact indexed in ISI and Scopus) in the subdisciplines of music technology, music education, musical creativity, musical performance and musical cognition. Likewise, they have carried out European, American (Organisation of American States, CONICYT), national (National R&D&I Plan, FNEA, FONDEF-TIC-EDU (Chile), Chilean National Cultural Fund) and regional projects (C.Valenciana, Government of La Rioja, Basque Government, Andalusian Government). Currently, and with the intention of strengthening and extending collaboration networks with important centres of scientific production in the arts at a national and international level, the AGLAYA project is being implemented. Its main objective is to generate synergies between research centres in the arts, cultural institutions, education professionals, students, artists and creators. Its aim is to favour spaces for collaboration and innovation with a real impact and capacity for transformation while addressing the challenges of Arts Education in the 21st century. Intonation with both voice and instruments is one of the most important skills in music education; the rest of the musical skills are built on it. At the same time, it is one of the most difficult tasks in the teaching profession; it involves hard work in which there is verbal communication with a metaphorical language that may not be effective enough to help students to intone correctly. Intonation training -with voice or instruments- dissociated from rhythm and real time evaluation through software would be a solution to this great challenge. This work aims to design and validate this software, which is expected to be useful in music education institutions (music schools, elementary conservatories and faculties of education). The software would download to the teaching staff routine and imprecise tasks in the correction of the students' intonation exercises in Musical Language and the subjects related to the instrument. In addition, it allows you to create exercises tailored to your teaching needs. On the students' side, the usefulness lies in the fact that they can work at home without the need for constant monitoring by the teacher for their vocal or instrumental intonation.

Finalized project "Software for real time assessment of non-fixed intonation instruments (Plectrus)"

Plectrus (Design and validation of an educational solution for the training and evaluation of instrumental intonation using advanced online software) is an R+D+I project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2019' R+D+I Program . Subprogram for the General Promotion of Knowledge (PID2019-105762GB-I00) in collaboration with the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The software can be played from this link: 
https://www.plectrus.com  

The software does not require any special hardware; only the microphone and the web browser Chrome are used. All this can be a great advantage in music education and in instrumental tuition. The objective of this project is to create and validate two online software for the development and evaluation of intonation skills for continuous or variable intonation instruments (Plectrus). The instruments addressed by the program are brass (trumpet, horn and trombone) and string instruments (viola, violin and cello), taking into account the adequacy of the prototype evaluated to the gender differences identified in the research literature (female and male gender of the exercise models or vocal samples, interface design, learning process model -more relational) and non-sexist language. 2) to generate pedagogical knowledge regarding the teaching-learning processes of intonation in music education institutions, facilitating the work of teachers in the training and evaluation of this skill.