Musique Lab Maquette: an interactive approach of compositional processes for music education

This article presents an application dedicated to music education and based on computer-aided composition technologies. Various aspects of compositional processes are considered from a pedagogical point of view: creation and manipulation of musical material and objects, transformation of these objects, and organization in global musical forms. These different aspects are embedded in a pedagogical document, which provides the support to develop complete and interactive demonstrations of musical concepts and pieces.