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MusicEase Software songbook for children and adults.


MusicEase Software, P.O. Box 9219, Grand Junction, CO 81501; fax: (970) 858-0905; contact@musicease.com; www.musicease.com. $19.95.

MusicEase Software has released the MusicEase Traditional Songbook for Children and Adults 1.0, a Windows program that provides transposable transposable /trans·pos·a·ble/ (trans-poz´ah-b'l) capable of being interchanged or put in a different place or order.  sheet music for more than 300 traditional children and adult song classics. This program allows users to transpose trans·pose
v.
To transfer one tissue, organ, or part to the place of another.
, print and play.

Other program options allow for displaying chord names/guitar fret diagrams, tablature tablature (tăb`ləchr), in music, a generic system of musical notation indicating actions that the player must take, rather than "representing" the music itself that will result , scaling to different sizes and automatically reformatting, rearranging/deleting verses and playing with band accompaniment.

Songs include traditional children's songs like "Mary Had a Little Lamb "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is a nursery rhyme of 19th-century American origin. Original text
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
," "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" and "Eency Weency Spider;" spirituals like "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "All My Trials;" and standards like "After the Ball is Over," "Funiculi funiculi

plural of funiculus.
, Funicula" and "Annie Laurie." Other songs include "America, the Beautiful" and "Star-Spangled Banner," folk songs like "Freight Train" and "Hava Nagila," Christmas songs like "Away in a Manger" and "Jingle Bells," and favorite hymns like "Amazing Grace" and "Be Thou My Vision Be Thou My Vision is a traditional Christian hymn, which can be traced to Ireland but is now sung in English-speaking churches around the world.

The text (Rop tú mo baile
," among many others. From one to sixteen verses are included, depending on the song. All songs are in the public domain.

MusicEase Traditional Songbook operates with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP, and requires 16 MB RAM. A sound card is optional.

A complete list of included songs and access to a fully functional, evaluation version are available on the website.

For more information contact MusicEase Software.
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Title Annotation:Music Marketplace
Publication:American Music Teacher
Date:Dec 1, 2003
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