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

The award-winning theory software, Alfred's Essentials 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 in the Educator and Network versions 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 Educator and Network versions allow 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 local drive or network, allowing the most efficient tracking of students' progress. This version is intended for use on one computer, or in a networked computer lab, without requiring the use of CDs in each computer. Appropriate for ages 8 to Adult. Windows/Mac compatible.

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Groovy Music is a series of three exciting software programs for elementary and middle school students. Fun to use, Groovy Music teaches the basics of sound, rhythm, pitch and composition using pictures and animation, progressing to the study of simple notation as well as major and minor scales. Students love Groovy Music. It guides them with a simple voiceover and lets them create their own music as well as carry out directed activities, so there's plenty of room for creativity. In fact, Groovy Music is so compelling that once students start making music, they just won't want to stop! And best of all, it's incredibly easy for both teachers and students.

• Easily integrate technology into your teaching, allowing control of children's screens in a networked environment
• Technology assessment tools and progress management (included with Groovy City)
• Can be used on a single computer, whiteboard or network
• Makes time with students fun and efficient
• Uses the latest educational standards and teaching methodologies
• Students learn at their own pace and own level
• Uses an imaginative virtual environment where students arrange shapes, characters and images to create music!

Single-user copies can be installed and registered on one machine. Lab Packs are for non-networked use by fully accredited K through 12 institutions, colleges or universities. Site Licenses are for use by fully accredited K-12 institutions, colleges or universities and do not allow for any copies to be installed off-site.

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.

Absolutely one of the finest music learning products ever created! Music Ace is fun, entertaining, and helps to build a solid foundation of music learning while challenging, rewarding and motivating students. A series of 24 comprehensive lessons actually teach music fundamentals including notes, pitch, rhythm, keyboards and more, and when the lessons end, the games begin. The graphic presentation is extraordinarily good with animation throughout, and with "Doodle Pad," even younger students can have a ball composing from the first time they sit with the program. Designed for beginning students in Elementary and Jr. High, Music Ace will help your students succeed! The School Edition is particularly helpful, with its Teacher's Guide, Blackline Masters and Activity Ideas, all in a handy ring binder. The School version will track the progress of 240 users, and each CD-ROM in the lab packs will also track the progress of 240 users. Music Ace is a great choice for your program and receives Pepper's "Editor's Choice" award!

Finally! The award-winning program Music Ace now has a sequel! "Music Ace 2" introduces new concepts such as standard notation, rhythm, melody, key signatures, harmony, intervals, and more. Maestro Max and his choir of Singing Notes return for an encore performance with more than 2,000 musical examples and a variety of new instruments to provide beginning and intermediate students with a continuing introduction to music fundamentals and theory. "Music Ace 2" continues the same fun and engaging format of 24 comprehensive lessons, challenging games, and a creative composition tool.

Musition is a comprehensive music theory and fundamentals package for music students of all ages and abilities. Musition's interactive teaching makes learning music theory fun and easy. The structured drills and instant feedback create a stimulating learning environment, enabling students to achieve their maximum potential. Complete with 34 topics and sophisticated record keeping features, Musition is the ultimate music theory training and testing tool! NEW IN MUSITION 4

• significant new features, including updated and expanded lessons, new interface and available for both Windows and Mac platforms.
• Music theory training and testing
• Makes theory fun and easy
• Automatic assessment saves hours
• For all ages and ability levels
• Hundreds of exercises in 34 topics
• Ideal for exam preparation
• Create your own levels to suit your students' abilities
• Customize content to suit a specific syllabus

This is an incredible theory program! "Practica Musica" could be used as a complete theory course if desired, and even comes with a textbook, "Exploring Theory with Practica Musica," that starts out with the basics and progresses all the way through college-level theory. The new version includes an exceptional feature that let's you design custom activities for your students building off of existing exercises in the program. And, you can upload your activities to the publisher's web site for others to use (and download new activities that others have posted). Starting with the basics of notation, interval recognition, pitch reading and more, the program can take you into serious music theory topics like four-part composition, hearing altered chords, complex dicatation, transposition and more. Student performance is tracked by the program, and recorded on either a separate student disk or on files within the computer (additional disks and/or files can be reordered if needed). The Site License edition can be launched from a file server if desired. "Practica Musica" has been called "A sensational learning program" by MacUser magazine!

Sibelius Compass is a unique program to help students learn how to compose. It includes lessons, worksheets and self-tests covering a wide range of topics, leading on to complete composition projects. Key features of Sibelius Compass: Theory and Practice For each lesson, students study relevant interactive topics, test themselves with the built-in quiz, and try out what they've learned in the Tracker. Topics include melody, harmony, scales, rhythm, dynamics, transformations, timbre, texture, and form. Tracker Compass's Tracker is a unique educational sequencer which helps students record and develop musical ideas. It includes 1200 motives (e.g. chord sequences, rhythms, scales) to use- plus tools to create canons, inversions, ostinati etc., and combine material in new ways. Structured projects The lessons lead on to composition projects such as theme and variations, songwriting and blues. Students develop music in the Tracker, and can also transfer it to Sibelius 3 or any sequencer.

Sibelius Instruments is the unique interactive encyclopedia of instruments, bands, orchestras and ensembles. It includes complete information on every orchestral and band instrument, with full details of their characteristics, how to write for them, and hundreds of high-quality recordings Sibelius Instruments also explains all about different orchestras, bands, and ensembles, including their historical development and repertoire. With an extensive quiz to test what you've learned, Sibelius Instruments is ideal for schools, colleges, universities, teachers, students, composers & arrangers. Key features of Sibelius Instruments:

• Over 50 instruments, from alto clarinet to xylophone
• Over 20 types of band, orchestra and ensemble, from string quartet to marching band
• Instrumental writing and playing techniques such as range, bowing, mutes, glissandi, harmonics, mallets & multiphonics
• Lesson plans, student assignments & recommended listening