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Sibelius to distribute Auralia and Musition Software. (Items of Interest).


Sibelius Si·be·li·us   , Jean 1865-1957.

Finnish composer whose romantic nationalistic works include the symphonic poems Finlandia (1899) and Valse Triste (1903).

Noun 1.
 USA, Inc., announced that its parent company, Sibelius Software Ltd., has acquired the worldwide distribution of Australia-based Rising Software's leading educational titles Auralia Auralia was a proposed state that would have been formed out of the south eastern portion of the colony of Western Australia in the early twentieth century [1], and would have joined the newly-formed Commonwealth of Australia.  and Musition.

Ben Finn, co-founder of Sibelius Software Ltd., said, "We are extremely excited to be distributing Auralia and Musition. With the addition of these high quality titles to the ones we acquired from MIDIWORKS last month, Sibelius is now providing students, teachers and professionals with complete solutions to music education. Sibelius is becoming the one-stop for the best educational software in the world."

Rising Software has a high reputation for developing and publishing educational music software for students and teachers. Schools, colleges and other educational institutions around the world already use its ear-training and theory-training programs daily to help provide quality education for their students.

Auralia is a comprehensive ear-training package available globally, covering intervals and scales, rhythm, chords, melody melody, succession of single tones of varying pitch. Melody is the linear aspect of music, in contrast to harmony, the chordal aspect, which results from the simultaneous sounding of tones.  and pitch. Musition is a complete theory and musicianship mu·si·cian  
n.
One who composes, conducts, or performs music, especially instrumental music.



[Middle English musicien, from Old French, from Latin m
 package for students of all ages. Interactive, drill-based teaching makes learning music fundamentals fun and easy.

For more information contact Sibelius USA, Inc., at 1407 Oakland Blvd., 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.
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Title Annotation:Sibelius USA Inc. to distribute Rising Sofware's music education titles
Publication:American Music Teacher
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Feb 1, 2003
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