Ars Nova Software Practica Musica 6 Your Personal Music Tutor™
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Practica Musica 6
Your Personal Music Tutor™
Publisher: Ars Nova Software
System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.7.x Intel or PPC, XP, Vista, Windows 7
Practica Musica is a complete tutor for both music theory and ear training. With a friendly coordinated onscreen textbook and hundreds of interactive learning activities, it provides a fun learning experience for both beginners and advanced students.
With this software, users can: learn to read music • improve their musical ear • use the digital copy of the Exploring Theory Textbook • interact with the program • write their own music • go beyond the basics with music theory and ear training exercises for the more advanced student • track students' progress • export MIDI files • and more.
Practica Musica 6 from Ars Nova is a comprehensive software solution for teaching music theory. It's like having a personal music tutor who can set exercises based on your proficiency level, and guide you through the learning process using interactive responses. Suitable for both home and school applications, the program consist of a software component that includes movie examples, and a digital textbook.
Easy to Navigate
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- 225 learning activities are organized into a book-like table of contents that helps you to find the activities that are right for you
- You can locate a learning activity by topic, by name, or take a guided course
- Click on the name of any activity to read a brief description the material it covers
- 3rd Edition
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- The digital 3rd edition of Exploring Theory is revised and expanded, with many new music examples presented as movies within the pages
- Complete Course
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- Covers not only a wide range of topics but also a wide range of difficulty - everything from the most basic starting exercise to advanced topics
- Learn to hear the materials of music, learn to read and understand music notation, study melody construction, voiceleading, and harmonization
- By combining the software with the included textbook and its music examples you can go as far as you like
- Includes the Steps to Reading Music series
- Interactive
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- Do you want to learn to hear the difference between different chords? Practica Musica will tell you when you're on the right track
- Want to learn how to write melody by ear? Practica Musica can invent endless examples for you to practice with, and tell you when you get them right
- It can perform sophisticated tasks for an advanced student, pointing out errors when writing a chorale in 4 parts, for example
- Notation Tools
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- The "composition" activity provides basic notation tools that are perfect for doing a school assignment - write a melody, a chorale, a duet - and you can hear it, print it, save it, export it as a MIDI file
- Home or School
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- The included textbook helps you to progress on your own
- If you're using Practica Musica in a school environment your class will have access to the company's online WebStudents system for storing progress reports or music assignments and communicating with your instructor
- "Fat Keys" Keyboard Option
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- Most activities don't require a full keyboard but there is the option of using a shorter keyboard with extra wide keys that are easy to see and play
- There's also an "enharmonic" (split keys) fat keyboard and a lefthanded fretboard