Javier Merchán Sánchez-Jara

Javier Merchán Sánchez-Jara
  • PhD
  • Faculty Member at University of Salamanca

Music Pedagogy Adjunct Professor

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Publications (43)
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El consumo de información en entornos digitales ha transformado de forma disruptiva los modelos y prácticas lectoras históricamente consolidadas bajo la influencia del libro como dispositivo para la lectura impresa. El ecosistema digital ha difundido un nuevo estilo de lectura, caracterizado principalmente por ser más rápido y selectivo, en el que...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic that presents new challenges and opportunities for the improvement of educational processes. The disruptive and transformative force of this new technological development implies the adaptation of educational ecosystems for its use and integration as a didactic and pedagogical resource. From this perspect...
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El presente trabajo tiene como propósito central analizar la situación de la mujer en la música Jazz en España desde un enfoque multidimensional. Para ello se estudia el proceso de institucionalización del Jazz con perspectiva de género, abordando el papel de los ecosistemas educativos, formales y no formales, como agentes promotores de la visibili...
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El presente artículo analiza las posibilidades de las herramientas digitales de producción musical en el ámbito de la formación docente del profesorado de música. Para ello, se identifican los diferentes ámbitos de actuación y la proyección de los recursos de producción musical en el entorno educativo, así como las herramientas y funcionalidades de...
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El presente artículo analiza las posibilidades de las herramientas digitales de producción musical en el ámbito de la formación docente del profesorado de música. Para ello, se identifican los diferentes ámbitos de actuación y la proyección de los recursos de producción musical en el entorno educativo, así como las herramientas y funcionalidades de...
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Composition is one of the facets of musical activity that allows a more effective way to interrelate theoretical and practical contents in a real context to enhance the development of creativity and collaborative work in the music classroom. Through a qualitative methodology based on participant observation, the results of several projects aimed at...
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In recent years, Optical Musical Recognition systems and processes have been extensively researched and developed. Recently, new visions have been provided that include handwritten music. However, most of the works developed focus on pneumatic, mensural, or cultured music, and hardly any examples of noncanonical or closer to modern music can be fou...
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Orally transmitted traditional music constitutes an invaluable intangible legacy for understanding the development of local cultures and observing social dynamics over time. The Co-Poem project aims to make a significant corpus of these musical cultures available to any user in the Mediterranean basin by creating the I-Folk database, which allows a...
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El presente trabajo aborda de manera crítica los condicionantes y consideraciones que subyacen a la proyección de las Humanidades Digitales, como disciplina operativa, al ámbito de la praxis educativa. La colonización de este nuevo espacio competencial consolida la tendencia de traslación de las Humanidades Digitales, desde su consideración como ap...
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In recent years, countless platforms and resources have proliferated in the web environment which are devoted to the development of new didactic and methodological strategies in the context of the teaching-learning of music. This paper is a systematic review that aims to identify and critically analyze the main contributions of the scientific liter...
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Los factores que predeterminan y condicionan las prácticas lectoras en el entorno digital son uno de los objetos de investigación más candentes y productivos. En este artículo se estudian los factores y contextos que producen rechazo o desapego a la adopción de textos digitales frente a los impresos en el entorno educativo. Para ello se realiza una...
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Today, a greater generation of information is produced as a consequence of the technological development of society. The Internet has facilitated the access and extraction of this information, thus pursuing the automatic discovery of the knowledge contained within. In this context, data mining aims to discover patterns, profiles and trends of a lar...
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Desde los primeros intentos hasta nuestros días, han sido muchos los sistemas de notación, los soportes, formatos o las tipologías documentales desarrolladas con el objetivo de preservar y comunicar de manera estable el conocimiento musical a través de representaciones textuales. Con la irrupción e implantación de las tecnologías digitales se inaug...
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Folk music is a fundamental immaterial heritage that promotes cultural identity. However, it lacks a substantial body of open access materials, and its promotion has been disconnected from the education curriculum. In this context, facilitated access to annotated high-quality folk music content can promote better educational tools and enhance cultu...
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In tonal music, musical tension is strongly associated with musical expression, particularly with expectations and emotions. Most listeners are able to perceive musical tension subjectively, yet musical tension is difficult to be measured objectively, as it is connected with musical parameters such as rhythm, dynamics, melody, harmony, and timbre....
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El presente artículo pretende constituirse como una aproximación teórica en torno al proceso de inserción y traslación de la música de jazz en el canon de la música culta en Occidente, monopolizado de manera paradigmática por la música clásica europea. Partiendo de un sustrato teórico conformado en relación a la teoría de los polisistemas, postulad...
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In Western tonal music, tension in chord progressions plays an important role in defining the path that a musical composition should follow. The creation of chord progressions that reflects such tension profiles can be challenging for novice composers, as it depends on many subjective factors, and also is regulated by multiple theoretical principle...
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El escritor Roald Dahl es responsable de muchas de las historias más fascinantes que ha dado la literatura universal en el pasado siglo XX. Estas historias, sus personajes y un estilo inimitable, han creado un universo propio que constituye un acervo cultural que se transmite de generación en generación y que forma parte ya del subconsciente colect...
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La traslación de la actividad lecto-escritora del paradigma impreso al digital trasciende aspectos como la disposición y presentación del texto, los nuevos procesos de lectura, o las nuevas formas de edición y publicación. De manera más trascendente, afectan a la asignación de nuevas competencias dentro de los roles más arquetípicos de la tradición...
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The use of code quality control platforms for analysing source code is increasingly gaining attention in the developer community. These platforms are prepared to parse and check source code written in a variety of general-purpose programming languages. The emergence of domain-specific languages enables professionals from different areas to develop...
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Scholarly monographs provide a good example to show the evolution of the impact that digital publishing has had over the last few decades in the transmission and communication of scientific information. On the one hand, in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities relevance in quantitative terms has been undermined, giving prominence to other docu...
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El estándar MEI es un estándar XML exhaustivo y extensible para el marcado semántico de textos musicales en el ámbito digital. Su versatilidad lo ha convertido en el estándar más consolidado para la edición de música en el ámbito académico, gracias a la integración de recursos para la representación de cualquier tipo de obra, estilo, o época. Su ca...
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Se exponen y describen las actividades realizadas dentro del proyecto colaborativo e interdisciplinar Universo Roald Dahl, desarrollado desde la Facultad de Traeducción y Documentación de La Universidad de Salamanca con el fin de homenajear al conocido autor inglés.
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The representation of musical information through notation systems is a process of multidimensional nature, of high complexity , and which is subject to a practically infinite level of casuistry. The translation of these processes into the digital domain has meant an unprecedented revolution for the recording and dissemination of musical informatio...
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Se analiza el mercado español de los libros digitales académicos, a partir del análisis pormenorizado de un conjunto de editoriales de Información y Documentación, señaladas por los expertos como las más prestigiosas dentro de esta disciplina. Los parámetros analizados se centran en el porcentaje de producción digital en relación con el tamaño del...
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La autopublicación no es un fenómeno que tenga su nacimiento en época reciente, pero ha encontrado en lo digital un catalizador para ganar un enorme crecimiento en los últimos años. El trabajo estudia, a través de una revisión sistemática de literatura (en inglés, SLR), si este fenómeno ha penetrado en la comunidad bibliotecaria y de qué modo lo ha...
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The objective of this article is to analyze the factors that may influence the results t of a systematic literature review (SLR) in Social Sciences and Humanities. It is a case study focused on the analysis of a SLR centered on reading research and digital reading. Through this analysis it was possible to detect errors commonly found in bibliograph...
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The scientific monographs are a paradigmatic case of the changes that the electronic publishing and the digital environment have introduced over the last few years in the scientific communication circuit. On the one hand, its importance in the fields of Social Science and Humanities tends to move towards other forms of representation, basically res...
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Digital scholarly editions are substantially modifying the way musical editions has been thought and conceptualized over long periods of time. It's hypermedia capabilities, and its multi-layered structure makes it possible to put in context different sources and testimonies in a virtual space where all objects are semantically related, as well as t...
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Comunicación donde se presenta el proyecto Universo Roald Dahl
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The use of new digital technologies for communication of scientific information is from several years now a reality that coexists with the more traditional paper based documentary typologies used in higher education. This paper, framed within the project "Technological literacy at the university: devices and applications for research", funded by th...
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The University of Salamanca is going through a series of changes and adjustments related to the new demands that arise within the context of the Information Society. Ebooks and electronic devices are part of the daily life of most part of the Spanish population but how this integration is affecting the daily activity of the students, professors or...
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Se aborda un análisis comparativo de la estructura interna de los diarios de noticas entre los paradigmas impreso y digital a través de un análisis de caso. La investigación, de carácter cualitativo basada en la observación directa del fenómeno y el análisis documental, se desarrolla cotejando la versión impresa y el portal web del periódico españo...
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The present paper provides a cri- tical reflection about the importance of the contributions of the theoretical current known as New Philology , and more specifically to the ideas in the work In Praise of the of Variant (1999), as a founding work of this theoretical framework, and as a work of capital importance for the development of the philology...
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Reading music allows, through different processes, learnt abilities and previous experiences, for the recreation or interpretation of the musical message which had been previously coded using one of the many notation systems available. In the same way, reading music enables the experienced musician to generate musical images internally, which silen...
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A comparative analysis is done of the internal structure of newspapers between their two paradigms, print and digital. A qualitative research was developed collating the printed version and the web portal of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Significant differences between content structure and presentation are revealed; also, the consolidation of a...
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Parallel to the very first music expressions as a human activity, developed under some kind of guidelines and precepts, there have arisen relentless efforts and attempts to achieve the long-lasting and stable representation of the musical products being created, in a way that would allow to recreate them as closely as posible to the original event....
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The impact of new digital technologies, developed in the last decades, has substantially modified the conception, use and practices, which to the present day, remained immutable for centuries in the world of music and performing arts; from edition or distribution of contents, to production or management of sheet music. In parallel with the emergenc...

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