Music Ace 2 Consumer Edition

$34.50

Music Ace 2

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

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Music Ace 2 ships on a hybrid CD-ROM that runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

WINDOWS