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

EarMaster School is a an interactive and powerful tool for teaching ear training. The "learn by doing" approach allows your students to develop better musical ears. EarMaster is easy to use and includes all the features you need for teaching ear training. This school version includes all features and exercises in EarMaster Pro plus extra educational features.

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.

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!

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!

One of the most widely used theory books available, this text covers all aspects of music theory in a concise and methodical manner. Purchase the three levels separately, or use the complete volume containing all three. Computer software is also available.

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