Aglaya Play: Designing a software solution for group compositions in the music classroom

Abstract

This article details the design for Aglaya Play, a proposed software system that aims to meet three basic needs in the music classroom: the incorporation of creative processes, the adoption of collaborative-cooperative strategies and the reduction of reading‐writing- and theory-based learning in the early stages of music education. The text contextualizes the needs that the software intends to meet and describes its phases of construction from a design-based research perspective. Finally, a full description of the system is offered based on its functions, and suggestions for its didactic implementation are provided.