An Interactive Digital Teaching and Learning Platform for Chinese Culture: Chinese Music Culture and Musical Instruments

Abstract

Our project focuses on creating a tailor-made teaching website to provide an interactive and easily accessible learning platform outside classroom for students who study CCIV courses, especially Chinese musical culture, in the mode of OBTL (which acts as one of TLAs). The multimedia website includes numerous audio and visual excerpts accompanied by appropriate textual description. The website is divided into four parts: 1) textual description of Chinese music culture, 2) music theories and musical instruments, 3) audio and visual excerpts demonstration, 4) games, tests (for revision), and discussion board. This project is the first stage of the whole project of interactive digital teaching and learning of Chinese music and its instruments. For the present project, four representative musical instruments (dizi, pipa, erhu, zheng) and their music are selected and covered by the website.