

Orchestra scoring, harmonic analysis (e.g., comparing Blues progressions to In its advanced stages it gets into two- and four-part composition, Practica Musica is a very sophisticated and well-organized learning Individual drags and drops of the mouse, plus some options on the computer It, one must place notes, accidentals and other signs on the staff with

Since all notation is generated on the staff directly from playing.
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Though no external keyboard is supplied, connecting a MIDI keyboard to yourĬomputer is not only compatible with the software but far more convenient, Substituted) the musical staff at the top, with directions and evaluationsįor each activity and the various signs and symbols to be selected in the Plain or with letter names on the notes (a guitar fretboard may be Screen remains essentially the same: a five-octave keyboard at the bottom, There are more than eighty customizable activities, and in all of them the The format of the screen display is simple and consistent. Hand, while the activities menu follows closely the textbook chapters and Illustrate, or offer appropriate activities and exercises for the matter at Text, there are references to the corresponding screens which augment, That the two compliment, rather than imitate, each other: throughout the This is not to say, however, that the combination of printed text andĬomputer software is awkward in any way. Program and book developed side-by-side." Paper (in the Preface the author, Jeffrey Evans, notes, "Certain tasks,Īfter all, are best done by hand.") According to Mr. There are, in fact, exercises meant to be written on Practica Musica is accompanied by a full-sized theory textbook some 3/4 ofĪn inch thick, complete with copious examples, historical essays, andĬould be used by itself with an ordinary piano. Views as to the appropriate audience for the product were similar to those Note: A second reviewer examined Practica Musica for PEP.
