applications-education · dannenberg2006-score-alignment-accompaniment

Much research in computer accompaniment has been motivated by contemporary art music. [...] Computer accompaniment is also used in music education systems, including the Piano Tutor and SmartMusic. [...] As the student performs the music, real-time score following is used to track the performance and automatically turn pages by updating the display. After the performance, score alignment is used to identify all skipped notes and extra notes. [...] SmartMusic [...] includes accompaniments for over 30,000 pieces of music for wind instruments, vocalists, and beginning string players. [...] Only small-scale studies have been undertaken, but they indicate that students who practice with accompaniment improve in performance skill and confidence, motivation, and practice time.