The Perfect Music Teacher!

ARS Nova's Practica Musica 5 is an effective teaching resource with progressive, wide-ranging lessons that prove effective for beginners and advanced students alike. Learning to read music is easy with Practica Musica 5, which guides students through step-by-step lessons. Interval and chord recognition help students with ear training, and Musica 5's notation tools allow you to write, hear, and print out your own compositions. Give your students quality music theory and ear training with one affordable, interactive package with ARS Nova's Practica Musica 5.

ARS Nova Practica Musica 5 at a Glance:

• Music Theory and Ear Training
  
• Textbook
  
• Multiple Courses
  
• Interactive
  
• Beyond the Basics
  
• Track Your Progress

Music Theory and Ear Training
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.

You can learn to read music step-by-step with the help of Practica Musica. Whether you're following one of the 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. Learn how to recognize the different musical intervals and chords, everything from the basic triads to advanced harmonies.

Textbook
The Exploring Theory textbook is a complete music fundamentals book written to coordinate with Practica Musica activities. Each chapter directs students to practice specific activities in Practica and Practica will perform all the music examples found in the book. 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.

Multiple Courses
Practica Musica includes all of the following course options. Pick one or try them all. The Beginner's Course offers "just the basics." 10 simple linked activities give an overview of pitch rhythm and chords. Exploring Theory Textbook Course is a complete fundamentals course. Engaging, easy to read, theory explanations combined with software activities help you practice what you've learned chapter by chapter. The AP Prep Course provides excellent preparation for the AP music theory exam, and includes a complete series of activities based on actual AP theory exams. Or choose activities by topic, creating your own course by choosing from over 80 activities organized by topic.

Interactive
Practica Musica is not just a series of pictures - it's 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. Practica Musica includes simple notation tools you can use to write, hear, and print your own composition. This is especially good for school assignments.

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.

ARS Nova Practica Musica 5 Features:

• Learn music theory and ear training
  
• Print and digital textbook included
  
• Multiple course levels for beginners and more advanced students
  
• Big Notes option for on-screen magnification
  
• MIDI export
  
• Supported by Mac Universal Binary and Windows 2000, XP, and Vista

Learn music theory and ear training with ARS Nova's Practica Musica 5!

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