Musicianship Basics

An interactive music tutorial designed by music teachers for use in schools and private studios. 50 graded activities cover basic music skills for students of all ages.

Specific skills include:

* Reading notes in the treble and bass clefs.
* Matching manuscript notes with keys on a piano.
* Aural recognition of melodies and rhythms.
* Aural recognition of scales and common intervals.
* Recognition of note names and their durations.
* Review of common Italian terms and music symbols.
* Recognition of common chords on manuscript and keyboard.
* Aural recognition of major and minor tonality.

Windows 3.1 and 95 Installation

No special installation is needed. Place all the unzipped files in any directory of your choice (perhaps called [c:\musdemo] or something similar).

Run musdemo.exe to use the application.

No additional resources are placed in your system. You can easily move the demo to another drive by copying the entire directory. The demo can be completely removed from your hard drive by deleting this single directory.

Program Status

This is a commercial demo. The first 6 of the 50 activities are fully functional. You may distribute this demo freely. School teachers may be especially interested as it was designed by music teachers for use in a classroom environment of students aged 8 to 14. Music teachers in private studios may also find the program useful for helping students consolidate basic musicianship skills during the first 2 years of study.

Purchase details for the full Windows or Macintosh applications are available at:

http://www.dragnet.com.au/~donovan/mb/music.html

For further information contact the author of the program at:

greglewis@nexus.edu.au