TDML Conference Presentation

January 27, 1999
Multimedia for the Music Classroom:
Quicktime 3.0 and MoviePlayer Pro

This session will feature a variety of multimedia materials developed for
the music classroom and will explain the new features of Quicktime 3.0
and MoviePlayer 3.0 which enable music teachers to create them.

The multimedia materials to be presented will include
 
 
 
Movies with Scrolling Notation 

Quicktime movies may include notation which scrolls as the music plays.  The student or teacher may stop or start at any point in the music and may easily move from section to section within the piece. 

For examples, click below. 

   Summer is icummin in - - 
   Morley's Sing We and Chant It 
   Bach's Little Fugue in G minor 
   Mozart's Air in C major 
 

Creating these movies is explained here. 
 
Call-Chart Movies 

Call-chart movies may present a formal analysis of the composition in real-time as the music plays.  These movies allow the same quick access to any part of the piece as do the movies with scrolling notation. 
 
For additional examples, click below. 
   Bach's Little Fugue in G minor 
   Tchaikovsky's March (Nutcracker) 
   Tchaikovsky's Arab Dance (Nutcracker) 
   Tchaikovsky's Reed Flutes (Nutcracker) 
   Tchaikovsky's Trepak (Nutcracker) 
   Tchaikovsky's Tea Dance (Nutcracker) - 
   Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man 
   Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee
   Joplin's Entertainer 
   Chopin's Prelude in C minor 

Creating these movies is explained here. 
Instructional Videos 
On the Elements of Music  

The videos on the elements of music use the music of Pachelbel and Mozart and incorporate text tracks and links to the world wide web. 
These materials may be used on the internet or incorporated into any of the
popular multimedia packages including Director, Authorware,  HyperCard,
HyperStudio, SuperCard, or Toolbook.

Quicktime and Movie Player Pro are cross-platform utilities which allow the
creation, playback, and editing of over 30 different file types including
MOV, AVI, MPG, AU, WAV, AIF, and MID.  The following Quicktime topics will
be presented:  combining MIDI, audio, graphic, and video files; creating text
tracks; creating movies with a picture within the movie; masking visual
tracks; and creating tracks that link to web pages automatically and/or when
the user clicks the mouse.


Creating movies may be done in a number of ways.  Generaly speaking the process consists of two steps:  creating an audio track and creating a video track.  I suggest creating the audio track first as it is easier to change the length and tempo of the video elements than the audio elements.  An audio track may consist of a standard MIDI file or an AIF or WAV files extracted from a CD.  The video track may be created in a number of ways.  Some utility programs will automatically make screen shots of specified screen coordinates as a notation program plays the music.  It is also possible to capture the screen manually and to combine the saved screens into a movie using a utility such as Graphic Converter.