The Piano Game: Using Low Cost Laptops for Music Education

Music Education is rarely explored in basic education, especially in Brazilian public schools. Mainly, the lack of music instruments and specialized teachers is the reason for such little time dedicated to music in schools. Nevertheless, music is part of a child’s education. As recent low cost laptops have appeared and will be inserted in large amounts in schools to provide a one-to-one technology, music education can be introduced to children thru these machine. In this paper we present the Piano Game, a software program developed for low cost laptops. The Piano Game is a computer program for music education that stimulates audition and execution activities and improves music notes recognition. The research intends to develop, evaluate and distribute a free and open source software program for low cost laptops.