Your personal music search space.
Augment your understanding of music.
YMUSIC SEARCH ENGINE
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ARE YOU A COMPOSER?
YOU DO NOT NEED HELP TO TEST YMUSIC'S FEATURES?
AN IDEAL COMPLEMENT TO THE TECHNICAL DATASHEETS: THE YMUSIC NOTEBOOK
Handle the YMusic search engine more easily using the datasheets and for your students, see the link leading to the YMusic Notebook! YMusic Notebook contains everything needed to exploit YMusic's features with any audience.
How can you get the most out of it?
* Print the notebook (one copy per person and per piece of music)
* In YMusic, select a piece of music that you find interesting to present to your audience
* Invite that audience to execute all the microactions suggested in the notebook, the audience will be rewarded with brand new knowledge!
* Working with children or adults with special needs? Print the notebook's annex, it contains tokens that you may distribute when a task is completed!
We wrote 19 technical datasheets to help you to discern how the YMusic search engine could support you in your musical activities.
SEARCH FOR A PIECE OF MUSIC IN YMUSIC
STRUCTURE OF THE 19 DATASHEETS
Each piece of music analyzed in the datasheet belongs to classical music (but you can create new ones for popular music, following their model). The datasheets present 6 sections that contain concrete instructions to navigate YMusic (sections 1, 2 and 4) as well as information related to the composer (in section 2, found amongst musicologists writings) and an invitation to students (personal expression, in section 6):
1. ID CARD
* Tempo and duration (students check in YMusic)
* Time signature (students check in YMusic) or key signature
* Musical form of the piece (basic information)
* Listening (students listen to the piece of music - twice)
2. COMPOSER
* Notes related to composer's repertoire (musical aspects only)
* Remarks related to the reception of the piece explored in the datasheet (musical content only)
3. AWARENESS
* Details related to instruments (students check in YMusic)
* Invitation to represent intuitively the form of the sound made by each instrument (students may use the notebook associated with each sheet)
4. SEARCH
* Comparison of the title explored in the datasheet and another piece that is similar (students search for the piece in YMusic)
* Personal notes (students may use the notebook associated to each sheet)
5. SEED
Sharing of the information found during the whole search process (de visu or on social media) or, at least, of the URL linking to YMusic's homepage: http://www.music-search-engine.info.
6. SEARCHING INSIDE MYSELF
To explore their emotions in relation to the piece of music analyzed with YMusic, students are invited to choose 10 adjectives which narrow the piece for them.
TECHNICAL DATASHEETS? WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
* Music teacher or librarian: you may use the technical datasheets and YMusic's features to help your always-connected students to get new musical knowledge in a way that corresponds to their habits. You may yourself go further and create your individual music profile in our search engine on the basis of musical criteria. Whatever your genre, age and location are, find music that may really be to your taste, independently of any program.
* Musicophile, archivist or blogger: you are constantly searching for unexplored music. With YMusic's musical criteria, find pieces that are relevant to you more quickly without relying on tons of metadata.