Music Education and Composing Music With A Computer Software for Windows

Virtual Music Composer
$29.95 - LvB's X

Making music with a computer is easier than ever and offers many advantages. The use of Virtual Music Composer is based on listening to musical phrases created by this software. Program is designed to help you to make your own music: it does not require any prior knowledge of composing or programming. By providing a visual-based and easy-to-use interface it simplifies work without regard to the user's skill level. The graphical user interface refers not so much to the standard musical terminology as much to the general description of program's features. By this way, the use of Virtual Music Composer is suitable for newcomers to the art of composing music as well as to the professionals. Just having a piano certainly does not make you into a pianist, as just having this software does not make you a composer. In order to take the most advantage of Virtual Music Composer, the playing of any musical instrument is not necessary but recommended or, at least, it is convenient. Virtual Music Composer does not replace the human factor: it's just an endless source of inspiration for making music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So, it is more and more important to make a distinction between "making music on a computer" and "composing music with a computer" software. Programs from the family "Making music with a computer", commonly, include features such as editing, sampling, sequencing, recording, mixing... Programs from the family "composing music with a computer" include only "computer generated music" feature. PRO version is free for educational, research and review's purposes.

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Pieces of Music Games
$15 - G&R Cybermedia Group

This software package consists of 3 educational games titled: Music Matching, Music Bingo, and Music Missing. These games are designed to work together to teach the names of several music symbols and music notes. They are fun and exciting to play even after the symbols are learned.

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MagicScore School 5
$29.95 - MagicScore Music Software

MagicScore School 5 is specialized notation software for music aficionados, students, teachers, schools and colleges. The program offers people interested in music a variety of notation options ? input, editing, printing, correctness check and much more. MagicScore School 5, as the name implies, has been specially created for folks who are learning music, but professional musicians can use it as well. Notes can be entered manually, copied from another source, added through the virtual piano, MIDI keyboard or synthesizer. If there is something incorrect with the notes, MagicScore School 5 will alert the user right away. If necessary, that person can easily add or delete notes manually as well as perform other editing operations, like transposing separated notes or selected blocks of notes. MagicScore School 5 is also capable of reading notes from MIDI and Karaoke files, as well as recording MIDI and Karaoke files. The player module is capable of playing notes for the selected instruments or the entire orchestra. Volume, balance and effects can be adjusted individually for each score instrument. Another handy feature MagicScore School 5 comes with is the notes printing option (including MIDI files) with preview. The program is also capable of printing blank staff notation sheets. The program also supports Music XML format. The program supports multiple languages.

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MagicScore School
$24.95 - MagicScore Music Software

MagicScore School 4.0 is specialized notation software for music aficionados, students, teachers, schools and colleges. The program offers people interested in music a variety of notation options ? input, editing, printing, correctness check and much more. MagicScore School 4.0, as the name implies, has been specially created for folks who are learning music, but professional musicians can use it as well. Notes can be entered manually, copied from another source, added through the virtual piano, MIDI keyboard or synthesizer. If there is something incorrect with the notes, MagicScore School 4.0 will alert the user right away. If necessary, that person can easily add or delete notes manually as well as perform other editing operations, like transposing separated notes or selected blocks of notes. MagicScore School 4.0 is also capable of reading notes from MIDI and Karaoke files, as well as recording MIDI and Karaoke files. The player module is capable of playing notes for the selected instruments or the entire orchestra. Volume, balance and effects can be adjusted individually for each score instrument. Another handy feature MagicScore School 4.0 comes with is the notes printing option (including MIDI files) with preview. The program is also capable of printing blank staff notation sheets. The program also supports Music XML format. The program supports multiple languages.

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MagicScore Maestro
$49.5 - MagicScore Music Software

MagicScore Maestro is a music notation software application with extended editing capabilities and internal spell-checker. It features a variety of input methods - virtual keyboard, external MIDI devices, or an extended set of musical note symbols. The program comes with a virtual piano and virtual fingerboard for six and seven-string guitars. The built-in notes play-back feature allows users to listen to the newly created piece of music as if performed by a single instrument or by an entire orchestra.

Importantly, MagicScore Maestro makes editing notes easy with tools that let musicians copy, paste, delete, and transpose both single notes and selected note blocks. Drag'n'drop feature is available as well. Conveniently, the program permits creating custom symbols, terms and chords for complex compositions with peculiar or non-standard grammatical solutions. There is an entire set of functions that simplify musicians work packed inside the program, like the adjustment of volume, balance, and effects for each track, and the capability to bind comments, links, and otherappearance elements to all score elements.

Moreover, the program can read/write data to/from MIDI and save data in various formats, including graphic files (BMP, JPEG, GIF, WMF) that are easy to print out. Other helpful features include customized texts orientation options, notes volume and effect play-back calculations, and a capability to stop executing any operation any time. The program has been used extensively by amateur and professional musician and education institutions, and got excellent reviews for its simplicity and rich set of time-saving features. The program also supports Music XML format.

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Note Attack
$0 - Aspire Software

Learn to read sheet music with this free educational video game. Use either your computer keyboard or MIDI keyboard / piano as input.

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