FIVE MUSIC LEARNING DISKS FOR THE MAC

Five music learning disk sets from Trimbelle Software are available for the Macintosh computer family. The five disks available are:

• Disk I: Fundamentals of Music
• Disk II: Intervals, Scales & Chords
• Disk III: Understanding Music
• Disk IV: The Well-Tempered Ear
• Disk Set V: The Music Train

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Any Macintosh computer with 1mg of RAM and Hypercard or Hypercard Player (version 2x preferred). Superdrive for HD disks is preferred.
• Hard disk installation is required.
• MIDI keyboard is required for UNDERSTANDING MUSIC; optional for all other disks.

FEATURES OF THE PROGRAMS

• Immediate playback of all examples and responses. Students may choose either internal digitized sounds or MIDI output.
• Intuitive, friendly user interface with clear, on-screen instructions and a non-threatening environment that invites intensive, self-paced individual study.
• Extensive data banks of randomized examples.
• STUDENT RECORDS feature stores student names and scores for all quizzes and tutorials. Information can be sorted and printed out in several ways.

DISK I: FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC

Exercises in the basics of musicalknowledge, including:

• over 50 Musical Terms to identify.
• over 50 Common Musical Symbols to identify.
• Key Signature drill and practice in all major and minor keys (treble clef only).
• Notespellers in four clefs with both keyboard and letter name identification.
• Easy rhythmic dictation on three levels. The computer plays rhythmic patterns that students notate on a staff icon.
• TEACHER'S CHOICE PROGRAMMING on this disk allows instructors to program specific items for self-tests or examination purposes.

DISK II: INTERVALS, SCALES & CHORDS

Music theory for the more advanced learner, containing: TUTORIALS in the theory, construction, and notation of:

• -Intervals--all qualities and sizes from unisons to tenths;
• -Scales--Major, melodic and harmonic minors, plus church modes;
• -Chords--all types of triads and seventh chords in all inversions; and EXERCISES in the notation of intervals, scales, and chords, based on infor-mation contained in the tutorials with up to 7 levels of difficulty for each topic. Password-protected record keeping, retesting of missed items, visible running scores, and many other user-friendly features are included. Dozens of examples in each level are presented in random order.

DISK III: UNDERSTANDING MUSIC

Tutorials and exercises for students of music appreciation and musical structure. All chapters begin with Tutorials that consist of reading material on scrolling screen fields accompanied by aural examples. These tutorials and the subsequent Listening exercises present dozens of musical exerpts from the baroque period to the 20th century. Sudents are guided in learning and identifying the concepts under study through actual manipulation of "live" music played through a MIDI keyboard. Chapter headings are:

1. Musical Resources: instrument and voice classification, configurations of standard musical ensembles.
2. Rhythm: Recognizing duple and triple, simple and compound meters and other kinds of rhythmic activity .
3. Musical Texture: monophony, melody & accompaniment, homophony, polyphony, and mixed textures with interactive tutorials and listening exercises.
4. Harmony and Tonality: theory and principles of tonality and harmony; aural recognition of major/minor, tonic/dominant, dissonant/consonant and tonal/atonal harmonic passages.
5. Melodic Structures: motives, phrases, periods, couplets, cadences; identification of antecedent/consequent phrase structures, repetition, contrast, variation, return.
   • Musical Forms: study and analysis of standard forms, including:
   • Song form (Stephen Foster, Jeannie w/the Lt Brn Hair)
   • Rondo (Rameau, Tambourin)
   • Variation (anon., La Folia)
   • Binary forms (Bach, Menuet and Scarlatti Sonata in G)
   • Fugue (Bach, Fugue in G Minor)
   • Sonata-Allegro and other developmental forms (Beethoven, Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 1, 4 movs. complete)
   • 12 bar Blues (Jelly Roll Morton, Honky Tonk Blues)

A unique feature of these programs is the opportunity for students to explore the forms in detail and to 'create' their own structures. For instance, by clicking any portion of a sonata-form "map", only that section will be heard. In dealing with the smaller, sectional forms, students are able arrange and rearrange the sections of a rondo, variation, or binary form to gain a more intimate knowledge of how the forms work through personal experimentation.

DISK IV : THE WELL-TEMPERED EAR

Studies in Ear Training.

All programs sound an example on command, then require students to notate the example on a staff icon, after choosing note values and/or accidentals as needed. Labels must also be supplied for intervals and chords. Unlimited repetition of examples is allowed, and students may also hear and see their own incorrect answers, to compare with the correct versions.

• -Interval Dictation: 3 levels from diatonic intervals to chromatic, diminished and augmented intervals. More than 120 examples are presented randomly.
• Chord Dictation: 11 levels and sub-levels from major and minor triads to seventh chords in all inversions.
• Melodic Dictation: 7 levels, from 3- and 4-note arhythmic melodic groups to syncopated, chromatic 4- to 8-bar phrases in complex meters.
• Rhythmic Dictation: 7 levels, from easy 4/4 quarter-eighth rhythms to complex syncopations and dotted patterns in compound meters. Over 150 patterns are presented randomly.

Disk Set V: THE MUSIC TRAIN

Music theory and ear training for younger students.

A two-disk integrated set of programs adapted from Disks I, II, and III especially for younger students of middle school or junior-high school age. Study programs and tutorials have been repurposed with snappier graphics and more gradually graded examples to provide a more elementary approach to these areas. Competitive games involving up to three students have been designed to provide a more entertaining and active learning environment. There are thirteen complete programs with 39 level selections and hundreds of randomly-presented individual examples. Contents of this set are: