Music Ace 2
EDUCATOR VERSION
Designed for the teaching classroom. Tracks the progress up to 240 students. Licensed for a single computer. Includes 1 CD-ROM, 1 User's Guide and 1 Educator's Guide*.
Educator Lab Packs - These are pre- packaged standard educator versions with a license for multiple seats. Educator Lab Packs are available in 5, 15, and 30 seat configurations. More seats can be added to any of these configurations at an additional charge (see price list). Includes 1 CD-ROM, 1 Educator's Guide* and 1 User's Guide.
Network Version - These versions are designed to run in a networked lab environment. Tracks the progress of up to 3600 students on the network - 60 students per class x 60 classes. Includes 1 CD-ROM, 1 User's Guide, 1 Educator's Guide*, and 1 Network Installation Guide. Additional information is available in the Network Version Fact Sheet. *Educator's Guide - Designed by music educators to maximize the usefulness of Music Ace in an educational setting, this Educator's Guide comes in a three-ring binder and includes a comprehensive User's Guide, activity ideas, black-line masters and a detailed matrix of Music Ace lesson content.
This is the Academic version (see below to see if you qualify).
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. The Associated Press called it "an ideal supplement to one-on-one music instruction." The National Association of Parenting Publications awarded the software a gold seal and Children's Software Revue gave it a perfect 5-star rating.
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.
LESSONS
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 & Ties
- Dotted Quarter Notes
- Sixteenth Notes
- Rhythmic Composition
- Time Signature
- Major & Minor Scales
- Intro to Intervals
- Three Sounds Per Beat
- 6/8 Time
- Intro to Harmony
- Ear Training
- Composing Melodies
- Distinguishing Melodies & Harmonies
GAMES
24 exciting multi-level games (one per lesson) sharpen music skills and improve retention of important lesson concepts. Colorful 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 user 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
- Educator Versions include helpful Teacher's Guide
Educator versions of Music Ace products come with a comprehensive Educator's Guide and offer the ability to track student populations of virtually any size, from the one-computer classroom to a local area network.
EDUCATOR'S GUIDE
Each educator version comes with a helpful Educator's Guide. Designed by music educators to maximize the usefulness of each Music Ace product in an educational setting, the Educator's Guide comes in a three-ring binder and includes the following features:
- reproducible black-line masters-lesson progress sheets, award certificates, spelling games with note names, various staff activities, and many other fun tools to enhance the students' music education process
- suggested activities for more creative uses of Music Ace
- detailed matrices of concepts explored in each lesson and game
- suggestions for ideal classroom instruction methods
- general Music Ace user information
STUDENT TRACKING
Allows educators to track each student's progress through lessons and games; includes a "completion count" for each student and "games progress" for high scores. Progress sheets can be printed for each user.
GROUP PROGRESS
Feature unique to network version enables educators to define and arrange up to 60 groups to track the progress of a maximum of 60 students per group. Students' high game scores are compared within each group and progress sheets can be printed as a group.
ACCESS PRIVILEGES
Security feature works with school's pre-determined network password access and login. Allows each student access to their own private Music Ace file. Provides educators special access to all student files and capability to add and delete user files.
MUSIC DOODLE PAD
Unique feature allows students to easily compose their own music using a variety of instrument sounds, or listen to and modify popular music selections from the Jukebox. The creative compositions can then be saved and played back for others.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
File Server:
100 MB free hard disk space
10 Megabits/second LAN speed or faster
Workstations:
Windows 98/2000/Me/NT4/XP:
- 166 MHz or better processor
- 32 MB RAM
- 640x480 256-color display
- 60 MB free hard disk space
- 16-bit sound card or General MIDI required
- CD-ROM drive, mouse
Macintosh:
- PowerPC, iMac, G3 or G4, Intel MAC
- System 9 and OS X
- 640 x 480 256-color video (13" monitor) or better
- 60 MB of free hard disk space
- 32 MB of available RAM
- CD-ROM drive and mouse
CHOOSE FROM:
Single Computer Version - Tracks progress of 240 users. Music Ace and Music Ace 2, for a single computer. Includes 3-ring binder, 1 CDROM, User's Guide and Educator's Guide.
Lab Pack - Designed for use in schools with many non-networked computers. Tracks progress of 240 users per computer. Student tracking data is stored on each of the individual workstations. Includes 3-ring binder, 1 CD-ROM, User's Guide, Educator's Guide, and a license to install the software on multiple computers.
Network Version - Designed for use in schools with a local area network. Tracks progress of up to 3,600 students and comes with a license to use the software on multiple computers at one location. Student tracking data in the network version is saved in a single location on the network server for easy access by the educator.
This is the ACADEMIC version (full version software at a reduced price).
You must be a faculty or staff member at an accredited educational institution to order this product from us. We will require you to fax or email us documentation or a statement of educational status before we can ship this product to you. Email us voi.sales@verizon.net with any questions about qualifying (we'll work with you).
