The Virtual Museum Instruments (MVI) Music Department Wesleyan University, presents himself as virtual museum of musical instruments in the world. This is because it contains a large collection of instruments from different regions representing different cultures. Could be considered a museum of ethnomusicology, that is, a museum that not only organizes and classifies in terms of music but also highlighting social and cultural aspects of music and instruments.
The museum was founded in 2003 and since then continues to update its collection.
The website is very easy to access, which allows you to choose different routes based on the search goals: ranking of the instruments (string, wind, percussion), geographic region (including all continents) the material they are constructed (wood, metal, leather, bamboo, silk, stone, plastic, etc.) genre (different genres the world), and instrumental ensemble or group index.
When choosing an instrument generally access your data sheet with description, photos with different definitions, audio (mp3) to hear the sounds of each instrument, images of 360 degrees (to see the instrument in different perspectives) and a video demonstrating how to run. Also explains its history, context, delivery techniques, tuning, musical notation and discography advised to hear the different instruments in action. Each sheet includes internal links to connect the various instruments function of his material, the region to which they belong, etc. related instruments. It also has related links to external sites related to the topic.
level for which it recommends: is a museum which may work at any level, but I think for its presentation and content could be better exploited in the level secondary.
thematic areas addressed: The museum relates only to issues of music and musical instruments and through them also covers ethnomusicology, sociology, history, geography, arts, technology, science (eg through the study of sounds)
The highlight of the museum : The MVI is a project of the Department of Music at Wesleyan University , which thanks to its ongoing investigations then add in new tools or information on existing ones, thus updating its collection. Contains a large collection of instruments from different regions and folk instruments representing the different cultures.
has a very good organization theme starting from the homepage (classification of financial, geographic region, the material they are constructed, genre, assembly and alphabetical index), which allows you to choose different routes and easy navigation. Even the internal links allow to relate the different instruments by source, region, material etc, providing greater contextualization of information.
audio files and video can listen and see how they run and sound different folk instruments, as mostly unknown to us.
museum Limitations: Despite the interesting variety of instruments from different regions of the world, not all the technical specifications of the instruments have the full information of each of them. It is only available in English and does not take into account the capabilities of the people (eg provide explanations in audio). The audio files are very short (in time) and sound should be repeated again and again also does not have to listen to audio files that allow the instrument within a band to contextualize their implementation. It contains activities. Account only with an e-mail de contacto.
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