Auralia's interactive tuition makes ear training easy and fun. It guides students through hundreds of graded exercises, and gives instant feedback. You can even play or sing answers using a MIDI keyboard or microphone. Auralia automatically marks the exercise so students can use it on their own, freeing up hours of teaching time. It even records student results so you can monitor their progress over time. Key Points:

• Ear training & aural testing
• Frees up hours of teaching time
• Hundreds of exercises in 26 topics
• Monitors student progress
• Suitable for all ages & levels

• Identify & sing intervals, and notes from chords
• Melodic and rhythmic dictation
• Identify cadences
• Recognize and correct poor tuning
• Sing upper or lower part of a two-part phrase
• Write down chord progressions
• Tests designed for classical, jazz and rock/pop students, with special exercises on jazz/contemporary scales, chords and progressions.

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The arrival of an eccentric boarder turns a young boy's life upside down. Ludwig van Beethoven has moved upstairs! Follow a lively series of letters between Christoph and his uncle as the young boy learns to appreciate and understand the great composer and his music. Includes excerpts from Moonlight Sonata; Symphonies No. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Fur Elise; Pathetique Sonata; Flute Sonata; Nel Cor Piu Variations and Violin "Spring" Sonata. Now available on DVD!

Let Dick Hyman take you on a thrilling musical journey through the last 100 years of jazz piano! This outstanding CD-ROM is a complete and informative history of jazz piano, led by the masterful Dick Hyman, a virtuoso unparalleled in his versatility. Recorded by Hyman himself on a Disklavier in his Florida studio, the CD includes 103 historically important songs that highlight the diverse styles of 60 of the most influential pianists of the last 100 years, such as Count Basie, Eubie Blake, Dave Brubeck, Nat Cole, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner, Fats Waller, and dozens more! This terrific reference tool includes extensive commentary and recollections by Hyman and some of the artists to whom he pays tribute, biographies, extensive discographies of the original recordings, and hours of great music! The Pro version includes over 90 minutes of instructional video with nine complete lessons, printable scores, and MIDI studio that lets you practice with the CD while using looping, digital tempo setting, background playing and all standard MIDI capabilities. This is a great program for school or home use!

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!.

This all-in-one series includes concise lessons with short exercises, ear-training activities and review pages. Available in separate volumes or as a complete set. Ear-Training CDs (performed by acoustic instruments) and a Teacher's Answer Key Book are available. Amazing Custom Test feature now allows educators to create their own exams including their own questions. Use the feature to import engraved music jpegs for a truly customizable exam. The program also keeps scores electronically and allows the educator to print them out** Include Alto or Tenor clef material in the student curriculum. Perfect for string teachers and students! MIDI compatibility on selected screens (keyboard or guitar). Select correct notes on the MIDI keyboard or guitar.New shortcut keys on the keyboard allow easy navigation through the program. Use the right arrow to advance a screen, use the letter keys to indicate a note name for exercises, etc. Export student records in batch (Version 1.0 can only import in batch but not export in batch)** If a student tries to exit a Review before completing it they get a "Warning: your score will be lost if you exit the Review before completing it." Ability to import a class list into the program. Say you have a class list of 700 students. Teachers don't want to have to create 700 records in the program but they may be able to generate an ASCII file to import into EMT.**Requires passing grade for advancement (optional). You can set a percentage for each individual that they must exceed for them to be allowed to go on to the next level.**Ability to switch back and forth between full screen and windowed mode Ability to click on a button in the program to go directly to Alfred's website to download any Updates that may have been posted (patches, etc.) Ability to track every detail of student progress (i.e. how much time they spent in a unit, if they completed every exercise, etc...). ** CD-ROM not required in user drive to run the program. **

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.