Train your ears with music tutor. (New products: tools for schools).Ars Nova Ars Nova (Latin; “New Art”) Musical style of 14th-century Europe, particularly France. As composers began to use ever shorter notes in their music, the old system of rhythmic modes (see Ars Antiqua) ceased to be adequate to describe it. , www.ars-nova.com, software, $125 Practica Musica ear training and music theory software is now available in version 4.3, which contains additional beginning and advanced activities and a feature that makes it easier to organize individual programs of study. The software allows teachers to fully customize activities to fit the curriculum. 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. tools allow students to write music in multiple parts, and compositions can be heard, saved or printed. A new textbook textbook Informatics A treatise on a particular subject. See Bible. , Exploring Theory with Practica Musica, is included with the software. Students can use the book to practice and reinforce what they've learned through the activities. The software also enables students to hear the music examples from the book. In addition, new activities are added periodically to the Web for downloading. The software comes in a hybrid CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). for both Macintosh and Windows. It works with or without MIDI MIDI in full Musical Instrument Digital Interface Protocol for transmission of musical data between digital components, such as synthesizers and a computer's sound card. MIDI uses 8-bit asynchronous serial transmission with a data rate of 31. (the screen piano or computer's letter keys can be used as a piano). CIRCLE #502 FOR MORE INFORMATION [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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