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

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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.

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

The world's best-selling notation software takes a giant leap forward with Sibelius 7, which includes new features and work flow improvements for educators, students, composers, church musicians, arrangers, copyists, and musicians of all kinds. Magnetic Layout makes the score beautiful right from the first note, while Versions tracks student progress, detects plagiarism, and encourages student collaboration. Live Tempo puts students on the podium so that they can conduct their compositions from the keyboard. ReWire support means quick and easy synchronizing with Pro Tools, and scores sound better than ever, thanks to the integrated Sibelius Player, with technology from the award-winning Structure sampler for Pro Tools! Avid Academic Institution, Academic Individual, and Student versions are for use by students, faculty, teachers, and administrators. You will be asked to verify your eligibility for the educational price after purchase. You must obtain a serial number by submitting to Avid proof of education eligibility. Read eligibility guidelines: www.avid.com/eligibility

The Sibelius Site License offers you a great way to make the most of your institution's situation. Do you have 5 Mac and 10 Windows computers? A single Sibelius Site license will handle that. Does your institution work on a network with one central server? Sibelius Network Site License will handle that. In fact, every teacher or district should consider a site license plan before buying a number of single copies or Lab Packs. Sibelius Site License requires a minimum purchase for 5 users. A Site License is for use on networked or non-networked computers on an Institution site. The customer site may consist of multiple buildings on the same campus or location, or comprise an entire school district with schools in multiple locations (but not educators' homes). The network site license is to be used in conjunction with only one server. Academic version can be registered only in the USA, Canada, Central and South America Terms and Conditions of Promotion: This offer applies only to Sibelius 7 multi-user licenses- minimum five-seat multi-user-license- either new licenses or upgrades. All seats in an existing multi-user license must be upgraded at once; additional seats can be added to a customer's license at the same time This offer is valid from May 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012

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