Learning Tonal Harmony Through Bodily Interactions and Gamification

In this document, we describe a new approach to learning and practicing tonal harmony, a topic that is often overlooked in music education curricula due to the abstraction and complexity of the musical concepts involved. Building on harmonic perception, embodied cognition and gamification, we propose a practice on two fronts: one in the physical space, with perceptual and full-body activities, and the other on a customized web interface, which acts as a benchmark and assessment tool. Preparation games are proposed for each of the 3 experiences implemented on the web platform and further improvements for its development are outlined.