With 41 topics, Auralia is a comprehensive ear training package! Featuring drill-based teaching, Auralia offers a fun and easy way to use your computer for ear training. Auralia leads you through a variety of graded exercises, and presents instant feedback. All of your results are recorded, and you can sing or play your answers using your microphone or MIDI keyboard. Auralia is suitable for both classical and contemporary musicians of any age and ability! NEW IN AURALIA 4

• Ear training and aural testing
• Frees up hours of teaching time
• Hundreds of exercises in 41 topics
• Support for multiple syllabi
• Enhanced notation
• Bright new interface
• Monitors student progress
• Suitable for all ages and levels
• Now available for Mac and Windows

Here's a beginner's piano tutor that teaches basic skills with or without a MIDI keyboard. Five games make it fun to practice and drill the essentials. Key Notes lets you see the note you played on a keyboard display. Staff and Keys lets you see the note on the staff. Key Finder Quiz displays the note and waits for you to play it, and so on. Several games offer Hall of Fame status for high scores. Perfect for everyone who wants to learn basic piano skills!

This excellent tutorial/drill program is designed for the beginning music student. It combines the visual interest of contemporary graphics with line and space recognition, note positioning on the staff, up and down movement of notes, and tone skipping patterns to provide a highly effective basic skills program. Perfect for elementary programs!.

The award-winning theory software, Alfred's Essential's of Music Theory, is now available in a new and updated Version 3! With new features that allow educators to completely customize lessons, tests, images, and even sound files, this software features a fresh new interface and more activities to teach students everything they need to know about music theory. New features for the Network Version include greater options for educators to customize lessons, the audio, text and images used for lessons, the number and style of questions on the customized tests, and even the contents of the terms glossary. It also offers enhanced user, group and profile maintenance options for educators to organize and track multiple students' progress, as well as advanced tools for user permissions and network setup. The Network Version of the software allows for the unlimited creation of student records and the printing of individual scores, printing of class lists, importing and exporting of student records in batches, and the setting of a minimum grade requirement that students must meet to advance to the next level. Student scores are recorded automatically to the network, allowing the most efficient tracking of students' progress. This version is intended for use in a networked computer lab, without requiring the use of CDs in each computer. Appropriate for ages 8 to Adult. PC/Mac compatible.

PrintMusic is based on the powerful code that drives the full version of Finale but its simple user interface makes it the perfect introductory notation program and an excellent choice for home and school. Music students can create their own arrangements, and as their knowledge of music is refined, they can import the files they create directly into Coda's high-end notation program Finale. It supports up to 24 staves and has more than 100 sample files to listen to, manipulate and print. PrintMusic is one of the BEST choices for entry-level music notation, and is perfect for outfitting school music labs! Here's what's new as of May 2004: Support for Mac OS X New Color Interface Human Playback SmartMusic Sound Font Smartscore Lite Scanning Improved Simple Note entry Lyric Enhancements Expressions Placement Save as SmartMusic Accompaniment

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This program features three unique sections: Pitch Training, Sight-Reading, and Rhythm, and is designed to enhance your recognition of intervals, chords, and scales; improve your ability to sight-read; and prepare you for various types of rhythms. The self-paced program responds instantly to your actions, helping you quickly identify strengths and weaknesses. With multiple levels to choose from and the ability to customize your own level, Alfred's Interactive Musician gives you complete control over the content and difficulty of the program. Also effective in a classroom setting, teachers are able to create assessment tests that are scored electronically and have immediate access to student progress. Students work at their own pace, while the teacher sets up guidelines for the student to follow. Drills are randomized, so exercises may be played over and over without duplicating material. Immerse yourself and your students in a stimulating environment for developing musicianship with Alfred's Interactive Musician!

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"Jazz Piano Master Class" is a full-featured instructional music program containing interactive piano lessons. Master jazz pianist Miles Black is your teacher through lessons that will help the beginner while enhancing the skills of the more advanced. You'll be studying topics like Block Chords, Stride Piano, Common Progressions, Playing The Blues, Improvisation and more! Includes over 5 hours of verbal instruction, plus exercises and study tunes in an interactive format that lets you see and hear everything as it happens! An outstanding choice in multimedia learning!

Standard 5-pin MIDI cables in various sizes.

MiDisaurus is the award-winning multimedia music learning system designed for music beginners by music educators. With over 500 entertaining activities in Volumes 1-8, MiDisaurus provides a complete basic music curriculum for children ages 4-11. An "edutainment" approach holds the child's interest with colorful animation, fun-filled games, songs and activities. MiDisaurus develops real music skills, an understanding of music in relation to history and culture and the ability to be musically creative. MiDisaurus is an Emma Award winner, the most prestigious international interactive media award. Judges, in the category of "Education & Home Learning - up to 11 years," commented that MiDisaurus is very simple to use and extremely user friendly. The series is comprehensive and thoroughly engaging. It is the best possible computer software to teach music to this age group." The hybrid CD-ROMs work with nearly all current MAC and Windows computers. MiDisaurus is the fun way to teach kids musical skills that will last a lifetime! The complete MiDisaurus series includes an additional four "Focus Volumes" designed for school and private teacher use. Rhythm consists of new games and activities that drill on note and rest values from whole to sixteenth (including dotted values), tempo and time signatures. Notation includes a mix of new and excerpted games and activities that tutor dynamics, accents, ties & slurs, articulation, accidentals, key signatures and sight reading. Instruments and Composers are completely excerpted from Volumes 1-8; Instruments explores the instruments of the orchestra and instruments from around the world; Composers explores musical forms and representative works by the great composers.

Finally, something that Macintosh and PC users agree on - the "MIDISport 2 X 2!" This little green powerhouse has 2 MIDI ins and 2 MIDI outs for 32-channel operation and includes a MIDI thru button that allows you to use it when your computer is turned off. Both MacOS and Windows 98 compliant, this interface is totally self-powered and is true plug-and-play so there's no IRQ, I/O address or DMA hassles and no surgery!