ABSTRACT
Intelligent use of music technology to assist music teaching and learning is of major concern in the 21st century. Most modern dictionaries provide definitions of "technology" that center on the use of applied science for the improvement of a particular domain, such as industry, agriculture, or the arts. Music technology is more than designing a hardware solution to a music performance problem, more than learning how to use a music notation program. Advances in the digital representation, compression, and delivery of analog sound have resulted in a new and lasting respect for the power of computer-based technology to aid in teaching. The force that underscores much of the more contemporary research on music technology is the interest in constructionism as a basis for learning. The basic goal of constructionism is to place emphasis on creativity and to motivate learning through activity.
