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Ear training program for beginners to advanced, focusing on four main areas: Chords, Rhythm, Intervals & Scales and Pitch & Melody. A total of 26 learning areas are included , allowing educators to customize Auralia to suit their own teaching methods. Comprehensive record keeping and reporting features work seamlessly over a network or on a single PC.
Auralia has a simple and friendly interface. Because Auralia is a teaching program designed to help you improve your ear, we don't believe that you should have to learn how to use it! The main screen of Auralia opens up with four large buttons, each signifying a group of topics or modules. Individual topics are accessed using the slightly smaller buttons underneath. Click on a button to enter a topic, select the level of practice and click the 'Start' button. It's that easy!
Each topic has a system of graded levels, getting progressively more difficult. You and your students can move through the levels as required - advanced students can move ahead, and less advanced students can consolidate their learning at their own pace.
Each of Auralia's 26 topics has its own drill screen, allowing you to focus on the subject at hand with no distractions! All of the topics are interactive; some may ask you to tap back a rhythm using your spacebar or MIDI keyboard whilst others may simply require you to select a multiple choice answer. There is also an on-screen keyboard for those who don't have a MIDI keyboard.
Wherever possible, the PC version uses microphone input, in topics such as Interval Singing. This operates without any special hardware; you simply need to plug a microphone into your soundcard. As well as having countless educational benefits, these 'microphone topics' make using Auralia even more fun!
Auralia is suitable for all ages and abilities. Each topic has a system of levels that are progressively graded, allowing beginners and advanced students to realize their full potential in the shortest possible time.
Musicians of all backgrounds can use Auralia. It doesn't matter if you are a classical pianist, jazz drummer or rock guitar player. Auralia's wide variety of topics will allow you and your students to focus on particular area(s) of ear training, whilst obtaining valuable exposure to other non familiar areas of music recognition.
To help you achieve as much as you possibly can, each topic has an accompanying Information screen. These screens explain the content of each topic, and give hints and tips. Where relevant, you may also play examples to further assist your understanding.
Intervals & Scales
The Intervals and Scales topic area has 7 topics. They range from simple interval comparison through to advanced scale singing.
Interval Comparison
In this topic, Auralia will play two intervals and ask you which was larger or smaller. Later levels utilize different starting notes, and intervals played in different directions.
Interval Recognition
Interval Recognition requires the student to pick the size of an interval that is played. All intervals are covered, including all the compound intervals. Intervals are played ascending and descending.
Interval Singing
This topic plays the student a starting note, and asks the student to sing a certain interval above or below it. The starting note will be within the student's vocal range.
Scales
The scales topic tests recognition of all the common scales (Major, Harmonic/Melodic Minor, Pentatonic etc) and the modes.
Scale Singing
In Scale Singing, students will be played a note, and be asked to sing back a scale starting on that note. The starting note will be within the students' vocal range, and the scales used are the same as in the Scales topic.
Advanced Scales
The Advanced Scales topic builds upon the basics learnt in the Scales topic. Many jazz and contemporary scales are tested, such as Lydian Dominant, Major (b6) etc.
Advanced Scale Singing
In Advanced Scale Singing, students will be played a note, and be asked to sing back a scale starting on that note. The starting note will be within the students' vocal range, and the scales are the same as those used in the Advanced Scales topic.
Pitch and Melody
The Pitch and Melody topic area tests a student’s ability to recognize and recall individual notes and melodic lines. Tuning is also covered.
Counterpoint Singing
In Counterpoint Singing, students will be played a short two part phrase, and will be asked to sing the upper or lower of the two parts.
Note Recognition
Note Recognition is a good preparation topic for Counterpoint Singing. Two note and three note chords are played, and students have to sing either the top, bottom, middle or tonic note of the resulting chord.
Melodic Dictation
Melodic Dictation requires students to notate a melody on a staff. Rhythm and pitch are required, and melodies are played in major and minor keys.
Tuning
Initially, students will simply be asked to differentiate between sharp and flat. In later levels, students actually have to tune notes themselves, using a sliding bar.
Rhythm
The Rhythm topic area contains 6 topics, each of which is designed to concerned with reading notes from a score.
Meter
The Meter topic requires students to identify the time signature of an excerpt. Both percussive and melodic examples are used.
Rhythm Imitation
Rhythm Imitation is a fantastic interactive rhythm training topic! Students hear a rhythm, and must tap it back on their computer keyboard, or MIDI keyboard if connected.
Rhythm Dictation
This topic tests students’ ability to notate a given rhythm. Four bar excerpts are played, and students must click in the rhythm that they hear on a musical staff.
Rhythm Elements
In Rhythm Elements, Auralia will play a one beat long rhythm pattern, and the student has to identify it from a given selection.
Rhythm Element Dictation
Rhythm Element Dictation uses all the vocabulary learnt in Rhythm Elements and uses these to form complete rhythmic dictation exercises. Instead of clicking in individual notes, students are required to click in the excerpt using the one beat rhythmic patterns.
Rhythm Styles
Rhythm Styles is a great topic to introduce students to contemporary music styles. A musical example is played, and the student must select the style from a given list.
Chords
The Chords topic area has 9 topics, covering individual chord recognition, cadences, harmony, and jazz chords. Using this topic area, your harmonic recognition skills will accelerate extremely quickly!
Cadences
The Cadences topic plays students a scale and asks them to identify it. Cadences are played with and without melodies, in major and minor keys. All common cadences are used.
Chord Recognition
Chord Recognition tests the students’ ability to recognize the most common chords, and their inversions. You may add your own chords to the program!
Chord Singing
The Chord Singing topic requires students to sing a chord back, starting on a note provided. Chord Singing uses the same chords as chord recognition, and students must sing each note of the chord ascending.
Chord Progressions
The Chord Progressions topic builds upon the skills learnt in chord recognition and chord singing. Progressions of at least four chords are played, in major and minor keys, and students have to identify the chords that are played. A tonic chord is given before the progressions starts.
Advanced Chord Progressions
Advanced Chord Progressions starts where chord progressions ends, and is suitable for students familiar with advanced harmony. The topic covers chromatic harmony, with chords such as augmented 6ths, diminished chords, augmented triads, secondary/applied dominants etc.
Cluster Chords
The Cluster Chords topic has chords built upon stacks of 2nds and 4ths, and students must identify every note from each of the chords!
Jazz Chords
In this topic, students must identify individual chords, which are taken from jazz repertoire. These chords form the basis of most jazz harmony. The chords are all properly voiced.
Jazz Chord Singing
Jazz Chord singing requires students to sing back a given jazz chord; a starting note is provided. Students must sing back each note of the chord, in a triadic fashion.
Jazz Chord Progressions
This topic takes all the chords covered in Jazz Chords, and utilizes them in common jazz chord progressions. A walking bass line is used in conjunction with a piano.
Create Customized Tests!
Auralia allows you to setup an unlimited number 'tests', or customized learning tasks. As a teacher, student or parent, you define the contents of tests, and you may use any number of questions from any topic.
Each test's scores are recorded separately from normal practice results, so you can use tests to effectively grade students. Tests can also be used for real examinations. It isn't possible for students to cheat using Auralia, because while all students receive questions of the same level of difficulty, each student receives a different, randomly selected batch of questions.
The Professor
As you work through Auralia, 'The Professor' can guide you, advising when to move up and down through the levels. 'The Professor' will also give you detailed summaries of your results as you require them.
The Professor will guide you (or your students!) through the various levels of Auralia and you may customize The Professor to suit your own particular teaching style. The Professor becomes active once a student reaches certain thresholds.
For example, The Professor will only advise students to move up a level once a certain percentage of questions are answered correctly, and there is also a minimum number of questions that must be attempted before The Professor will activate.
Record Keeping
Auralia will record all your results! As you work through Auralia's topics, your results will all be safely recorded on your computers hard disk. You may then examine your results on screen or print them out.
Recording of results will also work across your network, giving teachers great flexibility with class placement (Site License or multiple copies required). Network support allows a central database to be used, reducing administration time, and allowing for easy backups. Students can also use any workstation that Musition is installed on, with the knowledge that their results will be stored in their central file safely.
You can access your scores in a number of ways, using any of the 25 reports that are built into Auralia. Results are kept on a daily basis; this allows you to easily monitor your progress from day to day, week to week or month to month!
Separate results are kept for all tests. This allows you to keep a close watch on how you and/or your students are progressing.
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Pentium® Processor or higher
32Mb+ RAM
Hard disk with 50mb of free disk space
CD-ROM Drive
Windows 95®, Windows 98®, Windows ME, Windows NT®, Windows 2000® or Windows XP®
Soundcard
MIDI Keyboard (optional)
Microphone (optional)
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Auralia for Mac does not require a MIDI keyboard to operate! Your standard Macintosh will do the job, provided it meets the criteria outlined below.
Powermac/G4/G3/iMac
MacOS 7.6 or later (Including MacOS X - 10.1 or later)
16Mb+ free RAM
Hard disk with 30mb of free disk space
CD-ROM Drive
MIDI Keyboard (optional)
Microphone (optional)
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