Color-Encoded Music Scores: What Visual Communication Can Do for Music Reading.

Visual communication and Piaget's pedagogical theory can be applied to music reading with interesting results. The purpose of the author's project is to make musical scores easier to read and play and thus facilitate the teaching of music. This article describes his solution: a music-writing system based on a Cartesian representation of sound duration and color-encoded representation of pitch. One of the advantages of the system, which he calls Rainbow Scores, is that it enables one to create videos of musical scores that move along before the student's eyes at metronome-controlled speed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]