"A masterpiece of interactive pedagogy..."
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Practica Musica®
Your Personal Music Tutor™
Practica Musica is a complete tutor for both music theory and ear training. With a friendly coordinated onscreen textbook and hundreds of interactive learning activities it provides a fun learning experience for both beginners and advanced students.
Learn to read music. You can learn to read music step-by-step with the help of Practica Musica. Whether you're following one of our organized courses, like the Beginner's Course or the extensive course based on the included textbook, Practica Musica will guide you in learning how to read pitches in any clef, rhythms (both simple and complex), and will help you understand the meaning of key signatures and other devices used in sheet music. You can practice reading single notes, or whole melodies invented by the computer (so they never grow old), or examples from the library. Practice only the pitches, or just tap the rhythms, or both. 
Improve your ear. Learn how to recognize the different musical intervals and chords, everything from the basic triads to advanced harmonies.
Exploring Theory Textbook. Our textbook is a complete music fundamentals book written to coordinate with Pracitica Musica activities. Each chapter directs students to practice specific activities in Practica and Practica will perform all the music examples found in the book.
New! Exploring Theory is now available in both print and digital formats. The printed text is included with the Practica Musica standard version or sold separately with the download version. The digital edition is included with every copy of Practica Musica. What's most impressive about the digital textbook? The music examples are "live!" Just click on the example and you can watch Practica "perform" the music.
Choose a course. Practica Musica includes all of the following course options. Pick one or try them all.
- Beginner's Course - Just the basics. 10 simple linked activities that give you an overview of pitch rhythm and chords.
- Exploring Theory Textbook Course - A complete fundamentals course. Engaging, easy to read, theory explanations combined with software activities designed to help you practice what you've learned chapter by chapter.
- AP* Prep Course - Excellent preparation for the AP music theory exam. Includes a complete series of activities based on actual AP theory exams.
- Choose activities by topic - Create your own course by choosing from over 80 activities organized by topic. A list of activities currently provided with the program is available at our Activity Library.
Interact with the program. Practica Musica is not just a series of pictures - it is built on a real notation engine that puts the notes you play on the staff and evaluates your work. Play an interval or chord in the "practice" window and it will even tell you what you've played.
Write your own music. Practica Musica includes simple notation tools you can use to write, hear, and print your own composition. This is especially good for school assignments.
Go Beyond the Basics. Practica Musica provides a wide variety of both music theory and ear training activities to challenge the more advanced student. Learn more about altered chords and chord progressions, learn to write music by ear (music dictation), learn the principles of voice-leading (writing music in several parts), do advanced work in atonal or chromatic scales.
Track your progress. The "Standard Edition" of Practica Musica comes with 5 user files, one of which can be used by a parent or instructor to gain access to special features. Everyone's progress is automatically recorded in a progress report that can be printed or viewed on screen. Studios and schools should see Academic Info for expanded licenses and student editions.
Why Choose Practica Musica? (also PDF)
Other Features
Big Notes option. Music can be large or small at the click of the mouse.
MIDI Export You can save examples or problems as music files, or export them as MIDI files that can be played by many free programs such as Windows Media Player or Apple's QuickTime. This is also useful for your compositions made with the writing tools - an exported MIDI file can even be converted to an MP3 using software such as Apple's Garageband and iTunes.
WebStudents. Academic users will be interested in the WebStudents service. WebStudents provides a central online storage system for student progress reports, saved assignments, customized learning activities, and messages for the class.
Moveable-do solfege (That is Do, Re, Mi, etc.) The appropriate symbols can be displayed on the keyboard, or above the notes, or both.
Editions and Pricing
Practica Musica is available in editions appropriate for the home, studio, or school. For universities, colleges, high schools we have additional information concerning using Practica Musica in an academic setting.
*"AP" is a trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
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Customer Comments
"I am a piano teacher and vice director of the Conservatory of Music. I have been using Practica Musica for years and I know that, by far, it is the best music education software." -- V.L.M.
"I use your [Practica Musica] software in our piano lab and I am very impressed... Thank you for making a product that stands head and shoulders above the rest, and that costs far less than your competitors products." -- K.H.
"I cannot begin to tell you how terrific your program has been. I was a fish out of water, taking music major courses without ever having learned a note of music at the age of 58 and competing with college students who mostly have played an instrument all of their lives." -- G.C.
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