As Arab music was taught for generations using the oral tradition, there have been few attempts to create resources that are accessible to young students in a western setting. In particular, it is difficult to obtain instrumental notation that takes into consideration multiple arrangements for different instrumentation, rather than simply a one-line melody in treble clef. This need for accessible resources to understand and teach Arab music led Al-Bustan to develop these tools.
The goal of this platform is to break down the steps for understanding Arab music and provide educators the resources to learn and teach the music.
I Designed and developed the tool and integrated the recorded audio files into an interactive online application that allows the user to follow the music notation and the lyrics with a bar indicator and individually control each of the strings, percussion and vocal tracks.
