Javier Merchán Sánchez-Jara

e-Score; impact, perception and uses in music educational institutions

Parallel to the very first music expressions as a human activity, developed under some kind of guidelines and precepts, there have arisen relentless efforts and attempts to achieve the long-lasting and stable representation of the musical products being created, in a way that would allow to recreate them as closely as posible to the original event.from the very beginning until the present days, have been many notation systems, formats, and expressions developed with this purpose in mind. With the incursion and implementation of the new digital technologies in the musical activity spheres, a new paradigm emerge in the representation and transmission of the musical work, culminating nowadays with the born of a new music document typology tha may be called digital music score or e-Score. The aim of this paper is lay down and approach to this new type of object for music texts reading, editing and transmission through a quantitive research, being the scope of the study to analyze and understand how electronic music scores (e-Score) are received, used and perceived by music students and teachers in any of the music learning centers in our country. The main purpose is to provide scientific evidence, through statistical methods, of the level of implementation and use of these new support type for music knowledge transmission, as well as the most influential aspects implied in perception of therm amongst musical community in Spain.

Digital schola: music readers as learning/teaching tools

The impact of new digital technologies, developed in the last decades, has substantially modified the conception, use and practices, which to the present day, remained immutable for centuries in the world of music and performing arts; from edition or distribution of contents, to production or management of sheet music. In parallel with the emergence and growth of the e-book, it have been developed applications with specific functions and tolos, focused in reading and handling sheet music and musical texts in digital formats. The progressive inclusion, within these applications, of specialized tools for text annotation, study and practice, or music performance, and the present days acknowledgement of them as great educational value resources, has been resolved with the birth of a new category of applications specifically developed for music teaching and learning related purposes. This work aims to describe the great potential of these new emerging tools, largely in response to a progressive generalization of music as a globalized social practice. It also describes the various possibilities of use and application in relation to the context, discipline or matter on which they are involved, as well as the different avalaible resources for each particular educational need.

Systematic Literature Reviews in Social Sciences and Humanities: A Case Study

The objective of this article is to analyze the factors that may influence the results t of a systematic literature review SLR in Social Sciences and Humanities. It is a case study focused on the analysis of a SLR centered on reading research and digital reading. Through this analysis it was possible to detect errors commonly found in bibliographic reference information provided by different sources. In addition, the diversity of sources treated permitted an understanding of the disparity in the data provided by sources of information. The difficulty in managing non-standard data, and the need to include different standardization techniques in order to reduce the number of errors and allows avoiding the distortion in interpretations of the data. The results indicated that SLR is a suitable technique to apply it in the Social Sciences and Humanities although was possible to recognize that carries more difficulties than in other areas.

Ebooks and electronic devices at the university of Salamanca: perception and use

The University of Salamanca is going through a series of changes and adjustments related to the new demands that arise within the context of the Information Society. Ebooks and electronic devices are part of the daily life of most part of the Spanish population but how this integration is affecting the daily activity of the students, professors or researchers? In order to better understand this context this paper analysis the use and access to electronic books by the academic community of the University of Salamanca. As well as the preferences and frequency regard to the electronic devices. To achieve this goal was conducted an electronic survey from April 14 to July 7 of 2016 with 31 questions and the sample size n = 903.