Sibelius Educational Suite expanded.Sibelius USA, Inc., 1407 Oakland Blvd., Ste. 103, Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , CA 94596; (925) 280-0600, fax (925) 280-0008; infoUSA@sibelius.com; www.sibelius.com. Starclass, $89; Instruments, $119; Compass. $119; Notes, $69.95; Auralia, $119; Musition, $119. Sibelius Software Ltd. recently expanded its Sibelius Educational Suite (SES) with the addition of the Compass program. The full range of software is suitable for every educational level--from kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through university. Compass is a program to aid students in the art of composition. Designed for students and teachers from middle school through university levels, Compass's key topics include melody, harmony, texture and form, which are tested using thirty-four automatically marked quizzes. Lessons lead into composition projects such as theme and variations, song-writing, sonata form sonata form or sonata-allegro form Form of most first movements and often other movements in musical genres such as the symphony, concerto, string quartet, and sonata. and blues. The Compass Tracker is used to record and develop musical ideas and functions as a sequencer See MIDI sequencer. (music) sequencer - Any system for recording and/or playback of music via a programmable memory which stores music not as audio data, but as some representation of notes. . Tracker includes more than 1,200 mottles, including chord sequences, rhythms, scales and tools to create canons, inversions and ostinati. With more than 180 ready-to-use lesson plans, Starclass provides instructors with everything needed to teach music at the elementary and primary school levels. Sibelius Instruments is a unique, interactive encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books of instruments, bands, orchestras and ensembles. Appropriate for all levels, Sibelius Notes is a complete educational aid, with ready-to-use lesson plans on everything from notation notation: see arithmetic and musical notation. How a system of numbers, phrases, words or quantities is written or expressed. Positional notation is the location and value of digits in a numbering system, such as the decimal or binary system. to arranging, and was designed to integrate seamlessly with Sibelius 3.0 notation software. Sibelius Auralia is a comprehensive software package for ear training and aural aural /au·ral/ (aw´r'l) 1. auditory (1). 2. pertaining to an aura. au·ral 1 adj. Relating to or perceived by the ear. testing. Students are guided through hundreds of graded exercises and given instant feedback. A complete software package for learning and testing music theory, Musition creates a stimulating learning environment by testing students and providing instant feedback. Each product, with the exception of Notes, also is available in five-user lab packs and site license configurations, which start at sixteen users. All products, with the exception of Musition, are hybrid (Win/MAC). For more information, contact Sibelius USA, Inc. |
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