Music learning through visualization

We have developed a prototype music visualization system that shows the whole piece in a computer window, however long the piece and no matter how many parts it includes, as well as the selected part. The selected part is presented using either performed data or staff notation. Users can better understand performance expression by visualizing the performance with expressive cues of qualitative music terms. Based on this understanding, users can exchange comments with other users, recorded on visualized figures, through the Internet. Though still a prototype, we expect to make our system one that will enable users to better understand a musical piece and its performance, especially for a cooperative performance.