Music Ace Maestro from Harmonic Vision
Music Ace Maestro combines all 48 lessons from Music Ace and Music Ace 2 with Maestro Manager a suite of educator-focused student assessment and curriculum management tools.
Music Ace Provides a fun and comprehensive introduction to music fundamentals for beginning music students, of any age. Following the friendly guidance and directions of our 'Maestro Max' animated teacher, and his animated friends, the 'Singing Notes', students participate in 24 truly engaging lessons and challenging games, plus compose and perform to their own original music using our innovative Music Doodle Pad. This version of Music Ace focuses on the basics of pitch recognition, learning key signatures, basic ear training, the single staff and Grand staff, sharps and flats, and much more.
Music Ace 2 is the second title in the highly acclaimed and award-winning Music Ace series from Harmonic Vision. This title introduces concepts such as standard notation, rhythm, melody, time signatures, harmony, intervals and more. 'Maestro Max' and his choir of 'Singing Notes' return with more than 2,000 musical examples and a variety of new instruments that advance a student's learning skills in music fundamentals and theory. Like Music Ace, Music Ace 2 has over 200 comprehensive lessons and attention grabbing games, plus the original music creation tool, the Music Doodle Pad.
KEY FEATURES of Music Ace Maestro
- Available in educator version only
- Includes all 48 lessons from Music Ace and Music Ace 2, which are sequenced in a recommended pedagogical order
- Maestro Manager, a suite of educator-oriented tools that can be used to:
- create, manage, and customize the instructional lesson sequence
- import assessment data from earlier Music Ace or Music Ace 2 installation
- centralize management of student and group instructions options
- export assessment data in industry-standard format
- archive student and group assessment data
- Newly revised Educator's Guide
LESSONS
Combines the 48 lessons of Music Ace and Music Ace 2 into a single product. Topics covered are:
- the staff
- ear training
- pitch recognition
- scales
- rhythm
- tempo
- melody
- harmony
MAESTRO MANAGER:
- Student Management
- Syllabus Management
- Import Databases
- Archive Assessment Data
- User Grouping Option
INSTRUCTIONAL and APPEARANCE SETTINGS
Maestro Manager enables educators to assign clef instruction (treble and bass, treble only, bass only or alto only), rhythmic stringency (relaxed or strict), game difficulty (novice or advanced), and the appearance of the notes and instruments (with or without faces) on a group or individual basis..
POINTS OF DISTINCTION
- Ideal for educators desiring the flexibility to create customized lesson content and ordering
- Enhanced student progress data management
- 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
GAMES
Each lesson contains an exciting multi-level game to 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.
MUSIC DOODLE PAD
This 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.
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.
SPECIFICATIONS
Single and Lab Pack versions
- Designed for the teaching classroom.
- Designed for use in schools with many non-networked computers.
- Tracks the progress up to 240 students per computer.
- Includes 1 CD-ROM, 1 User's Guide and 1 Teacher's Guide and license to install the software on multiple computers.
- Helpful 72-page Teacher's Guide designed by music educators to maximize the usefulness of Music Ace in an educational setting, The Teacher's Guide comes in a three-ring binder and includes a comprehensive User's Guide, engaging activity ideas, useful black-line masters and a detailed matrix of Music Ace lesson contents.
Network Version
- Designed for the teaching classroom
- Designed to run in a networked lab environment.
- Tracks the progress of up to 3600 students on the network.
- Includes 1 CD-ROM, 1 User's Guide, 1 Teacher's Guide, and 1 Network Installation Guide and comes with a license to use the software on multiple computers at one location.
- Helpful 72-page Teacher's Guide designed by music educators to maximize the usefulness of Music Ace in an educational setting, The Teacher's Guide comes in a three-ring binder and includes a comprehensive User's Guide, engaging activity ideas, useful black-line masters and a detailed matrix of Music Ace lesson contents.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Music Ace Maestro ships on a hybrid CD-ROM that runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
WINDOWS
- Windows 98/2000/Me/NT4/XP
- Pentium 166 MHz or faster
- 32 MB free RAM
- 640x480 256-color display
- 60 MB free hard disk space
- 16-bit sound
- CD-ROM drive and mouse
- General MIDI keyboard OPTIONAL.
MACINTOSH
- PowerPC/iMac/G3/G4
- System 9 and OS X
- 32 MB free RAM
- 640x480 256-color display
- 60 MB free hard disk space
- CD-ROM drive and mouse
- General MIDI keyboard OPTIONAL.
Music Ace Maestro from Harmonic Vision
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