by Harmonic Vision
Platform:
Windows XP / 7 / Vista, Mac OS X
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Music Ace 2, the second title in the highly-acclaimed Music Ace series from Harmonic Vision, is designed for beginning and intermediate students. Featuring 2,000 musical examples and covering treble, alto, and bass clefs, Music Ace 2 picks up where Music Ace leaves off to introduce standard notation, rhythm, melody, harmony, intervals, and much more.
Maestro Max and his choir of Singing Notes return for an encore performance with a variety of new instruments to provide students with a continuing introduction to music fundamentals and theory. Music Ace 2 continues the same fun and engaging format of 24 comprehensive lessons, challenging games and a creative composition tool.
24 engaging, self-paced lessons that accelerate development of fundamental music skills and music theory. Lessons cover:
- Standard notation
- Tempo
- Comparing rhythms
- Rhythmic dictation
- Echoing
- Counting
- Quarter notes
- Eighth notes
- Rests
- Measures
- All key signatures
- Hearing melodies
- Melodic contour
- Syncopation
- Half notes and ties
- Dotted quarter notes
- Sixteenth notes
- Rhythmic composition
- Time signature
- Major and minor scales
- Intro to intervals
- Three sounds per beat
- 6/8 time
- Intro to harmony
- Ear training
- Composing melodies
- Distinguishing melodies and harmonies
24 exciting multi-level games (one per lesson) sharpen music skills and improve retention of important lesson concepts. Animated 3-D graphics, digitized sound effects, bonus points, and high scores provide fun, interactive entertainment. Users can select novice or advanced difficulty settings.
Tracking Progress:
Special feature tracks an individual's progress through lessons and games. A "completion count" provides the number of times the user has gone through each section of a lesson and "games progress" provides high scores.
Music Doodle Pad:
Unique feature allows individuals to easily compose their own music using a variety of instrument sounds. These creative compositions can be saved and played back for others, showcasing the knowledge and skills acquired from the lessons and games. Users can also listen to and modify popular music selections from the Jukebox section of the Music Doodle Pad.
Instructional and Appearance Settings:
New features enable users to select clef instruction (treble and bass, treble only, bass only, or alto only), determine rhythmic stringency (relaxed or strict), determine game difficulty (novice or advanced), and also adjust the appearance of the notes and instruments (with or without faces).
Points of Distinction:
- Ideal for beginning and intermediate music students, young or old--any instrument
- Accelerates learning music fundamentals--develops and reinforces essential aspects of learning music
- Exceptional value-affordable combination of lessons, games, and a composition feature
- Excellent motivational tool--excites students about learning music
- Users develop real musical skills, not just an introduction to music
- Entertaining, highly interactive, easy-to-use point-and-click navigation with the mouse
- No expensive MIDI keyboard required (optional)
- Saves teachers valuable time--ideal supplemental learning tool for group or individual music instruction
A good sequel to Music Ace (available separately), or a good first step to practice rhythm and melody concepts. Maestro Max and his choir of singing notes teach the fundamentals of music with narration and colorful graphics; each lesson ends with a game designed to reinforce new concepts. REQUIREMENTS: Windows XP/Vista/Win 7 *OR* Mac OSX 10.4 or later; P133MHz - 16 MB RAM *OR* PowerPC/ iMac/ G3/ G4, 68040 25MHz - 5 MB RAM; 640x480 256-color monitor; 5MB free hard disk space; MPC compatible sound card or General MIDI required; CD-ROM drive & mouse. LESSONS: Beat & Tempo; Hearing Rhythms; Review 1 Note Names; Review 2 Sharps & Flats; Basic Rhythm Notation; The Quarter Rest; Key Signatures & Major Scales; Melody; The Measure; Sharp Key Signatures; Notes Longer than a Beat; More Sharp Key Signatures; Dotted Quarter Notes; Flat Key Signatures; Rests; More Flat Key Signatures; Syncopation; Sixteenth Notes; Minor Scales; 3 Sounds Per Beat; The Time Signature; Intervals; The 6/8 Time Signature; Introduction to Harmony.