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Musition 5
Fun ways to learn music theory & musicianship
The best music theory software
Huge depth of content
Complete with 38 topics, Musition is the ultimate music theory tuition tool. With an amazing breadth and depth of content, this software is great for beginners through to advanced students.
Perfect for your classroom
Musition has awesome tools for student assessment & tracking so there’s less time marking and more time teaching! It’s so simple to set a quiz, worksheet or a complex exam!
Easy to use for all ages
Designed for students of all ages and abilities, Musition’s clean and simple interface makes it perfect for young kids through to uni students and adults.
Why learn music theory
Even if you ‘play by ear’, music theory will help you understand what other musicians are playing, increasing your awareness of their melodic, rhythmic and harmonic language.
Regardless of your musical style, classical, jazz or contemporary, the music theory exercises in Musition will help you reinforce and expand your knowledge, making you a better musician.
What you’ll learn:
- Read and write music
- Understand scale and chord structures
- Improve your sense of rhythm
- Understand instrument keys and transposition
- Comprehend musical terms and symbols
Cloud Edition
Working with your students on and off campus.
Teachers
- Assessment & record keeping
- Ear training & theory with real music
- Curriculum mapping & customisation
Students
- Complete tasks at school or home
- Quality feedback to assist learning
- Available for Windows & Mac
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Introduction to Musition
Musition is easy to use and is perfect for beginners and advanced students!
Practising
Musition has 38 music theory topics, suitable for beginners and advanced students. Topics have graded levels, allowing students to learn at their own pace and giving them plenty of scope for extended learning.
It’s easy to ensure that students are practising appropriate content; in addition to the provided syllabuses, teachers can easily create their own syllabus and custom levels.
- Self paced learning
- High quality feedback
- Tapping, multiple choice and notation questions
- Automatic grading
- Comprehensive reporting
- Syllabus and topic customisation
High quality feedback is provided in all drills,with careful consideration given to the response when a student answers incorrectly.
Students can always review the question and answer, including playback as well as notation and text explanations.
Students answer questions in many different ways. Some topics are very interactive, with one and two handed tapping exercises. Other topics are based on multiple choice answers, and many have notation input.
We provide Solfege, Piano and Guitar controllers for students to use.
Content
The content library contains hundreds of notation excerpts and questions for your students to practise. It’s very simple for teachers to import their own items, which can then be used in any topic, test or course, ensuring that curriculum requirements are being met.
There are many possibilities when creating questions, with amazing control over the student experience.
- Notation entry – transposition, rewriting
- Notation highlighting – notes, bars and parts
- Chord symbol entry – figured or contemporary
- Multiple choice – text, image or notation answers
- Tapping – reading & tap along
Notation
Musition now features an integrated notation editor. Unlimited parts and bars, control over beaming and grouping, anacrusis support and ties allow you to create small examples very quickly.
If you have created notation items in other software, you can easily import these using MusicXML!
Lessons
Each topic in Musition has it’s own customised lesson screen, containing notation and audio examples and detailed explanations of the relevant music theory subject. These are invaluable for student reference and teachers can integrate lessons into their own customised courses.
Courses & Tests
Teachers often use courses and tests to gain further control over curriculum and content. They give teachers the power to specify the exact questions that students will attempt.
Tests are very flexible, questions can be chosen from any syllabus, topic or level. Importantly, library questions can also be selected, this allows creation of theory exams with absolute certainty over the content to be delivered.
Courses are sequenced pathways that include questions and lessons. When setting questions in courses, teachers can set thresholds that must be hit before a student can progress to the next stage.
Scores for tests and courses are stored separately and they can be taken multiple times if allowed by the teacher.
Usage
Teachers use tests and courses in many varying ways, generally dependent on curriculum and student requirements.
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Musition in the Classroom
Musition can revolutionise the way you teach music theory.
Student have virtually unlimited theory drills to practise, with all their questions being automatically graded. Assessment is simple using the tests and courses, and curriculum customisation ensures that students stay on track.
Most importantly, you will not be grading hundeds of theory worksheets!
- Student scores and progress recorded
- Automatic grading and assessment
- Easy creation of worksheets, quizzes and tests
- Increased student practise
- Flexible and comprehensive administration tools
- Cloud connected for on and off campus use
Curriculum
Carefully graded lessons with plenty of customisation
Teach music theory the easy way!
Syllabus Support
Musition includes numerous syllabi, all of which have been carefully mapped to external curriculum.
We also include our own ‘Complete Syllabus’ that covers all of the 38 music theory topics – perfect for any music student!
- Musition 5 Complete
- AP* Music Theory
- Band
- Jazz
- Florida State MTA
- GCSE
- New Zealand
- Trinity
- VCE
- Western Australia
- Queensland
- Solfege – Fixed Do
- Solfege – Moveable Do La
- Solfege – Moveable Do
- South Australia
Syllabus Customisation
A customised syllabus ensures that your students are receiving content that exactly matches your curriculum!
It’s easy create your own syllabus and it can be as big or as small as necessary, you only need to create levels for the relevant topics.
Once you have assigned the syllabus to your classes, students will only see topics that you have chosen for them, ensuring focused practise!
Lessons
Each topic in Musition features a set of lessons. These are an excellent resource for your students, providing teaching material, audio examples and notation excerpts that assist with the learning process.
Topics such as Instrument Recognition, Chords and Scales also feature a ‘reference’ page where all instruments, chords and scales can viewed and played back. These reference pages will also automatically show any customised Chords or Scales that you may have entered into Musition.
Courses
Courses providing a structured learning sequence for your students, allowing you to integrate lessons, drills, library questions and tests in the one task.
There are many courses included in Musition, but you can now create your own! Creating your own course is very simple, and once done, you can assign them to your students and monitor their progress.
One of the best features of courses is the ability to set thresholds for student progress. Once set, these thresholds guarantee that students achieve the required score before progressing.
Solfege, Piano and Guitar Input
Solfege
The onscreen Solfege controller allows students to enter their answers using Solfege note names (Do, Re, Mi, Fa etc) as well as allowing for questions to be displayed on the Solfege controller.
Fixed Do and two variants of Movable Do are supported, with a customised syllabus being supplied for each of the three variations. To further integrate the Solfege controller, many topics have been extensively modified and customised and musical notation also supports the placing of Solfege note names underneath notes.
This allows students to see their correct and incorrect answers in two ways, using both traditional notation and Solfege note names.
Piano
Students who are more comfortable working with a keyboard can use the onscreen piano keyboard to easily enter their answers in many topics.
Guitar
The on-screen guitar fretboard is perfect for guitar players. Note names are highlighted as you mouse over each string and fret position.
Topics
Learn music theory the easy way
Each topic has a series of carefully graded levels, allowing students of all abilities to comfortably use the software. Teachers can create custom levels to ensure curriculum support and appropriate assessment.
Pitch
Note Reading
Identify notes on a staff, or enter notes on a staff.
- Ledger lines & accidentals
- Lessons with notation & playback
- Treble & Bass clef
Scale Degrees
Recognise a key signature and then identify the scale degree that a given note is within the key.
- Single notes or melodies
- Terminology – numbers, names or solfege
- Major and minor keys, up to 7 accidentals
Enharmonic Notes
Identify enharmonic variations of notes.
Advanced Note Reading
Identify notes on a staff, or enter notes using the tenor and alto clef.
Intervals
Identify an interval that is shown on a staff, or enter an interval on a staff.
Jazz Scales
Identify a scale shown on screen, fix incorrect notes in the scale, or enter the scale on a staff.
Scale Home Keys
Relate a mode to it’s parent major or minor scale.
Scales
Identify a scale shown on screen, fix incorrect notes in the scale, or enter the scale on a staff.
Solfege Signing
Identify the displayed Solfege hand signs.
Rhythm
Beaming
A rhythm without beams is shown on screen, and you are asked to enter the correct beams.
- 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8 etc
- Length from 1 to 8 bars
- Notes & rests up to 32nd notes
Meter Recognition
Identify time signatures and their characteristics.
- Enter missing barlines
- Identify the meter
- Name the quality of the meter (simple duple etc)
- 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8 etc
Drum Sticking
Tap back a rhythmic pattern with your left and right hands.
Drum Styles
Tap back the rhythmic pattern shown on screen. The pattern is one part (eg: Snare Drum part) of a rhythmic style that would commonly be played on a drum kit.
Rhythm Notation
Test your knowledge of note and rest values.
Rhythmic Subdivision
Test your knowledge of note and rest values, and the concept of subdivision.
Rhythm Tapping
Tap back the rhythmic pattern shown on screen. You may also tap the rhythm in using an external MIDI device such as a keyboard or wind controller, if connected.
Polyrhythms
Practise tapping more complex rhythms, with one or two hands. Many common patterns such as 3 against 2 are included.
Terms & Symbols
Guitar Symbols
Identify the chord that is represented by the guitar symbol.
- Hundreds of symbols
- Custom levels
- Comprehensive lessons
Ornaments
Identify ornaments such as trills, acciaccatura, appoggiature etc.
- Identify the ornament
- Show how the ornament would be played
- Acciaccatura, Appoggiatura, Turns, Mordents etc
Concepts
Test your knowledge of common musical concepts, the fundamentals of written vocabulary. Questions are multiple choice.
Jazz Chord Symbols
Identify chord symbols, and the structure of the chord that they represent.
Symbols
Test your knowledge of common symbols that are found on scores. Questions are multiple choice.
Terms
Test your knowledge of common terms that are found on scores. Questions are multiple choice.
Harmony
Chords
Identify a chord that is shown on a staff, or enter a chord on a staff.
- Enter or identify chords on a staff
- Keys up to 7 sharps or flats
- Select from more than 50 included chords
- Add your own chords in the chord editor
Key Signatures
Assess your knowledge of keys, in particular, the number and type of accidentals that keys have and the order in which they appear on a staff.
- Enter and identify key signatures
- All keys up to 7 accidentals
- Relative major and relative minor
Cadences
Visually identify cadence types and the chords which form them.
Chord Progressions
In Chord Progressions, 4 part harmonic progressions are shown, and you are asked to identify the chords. You will need to identify the chord quality, as well as the position.
Chord / Scale Relationships
Relate chords and scales, in a jazz context.
Diatonic Chords
Identify a chord that is shown on a staff, or enter a chord on a staff. The chords will be based on the scale degrees of the Major and Harmonic Minor scales.
Jazz Chords
Identify a chord that is shown on a staff, or enter a chord on a staff.
Advanced Chord Progressions
In Advanced Chord Progressions, 4 part harmonic progressions containing chromatic and mixture chords are shown, and you are asked to identify the chords. You will need to identify the chord quality, as well as the position.
Modulation
Identify the type of modulation (eg. Major Tonic – Relative Minor) or identify the final key of the example.
Instruments
Clef Transposition
Transpose short melodies from one clef to another.
- Treble, Bass, Alto & Tenor clefs
- Ledger lines & accidentals
- Octave displacement
Range
Identify the range of various instruments.
- Comfortable and professional ranges
- All common instrucments included
- Lessons with real instrument recordings
Keys
Identify the keys of various instruments, and identify the most ‘common’ key.
Knowledge
Test your general knowledge of instruments. Questions have multiple choice answers.
Recognition
Instrument examples are played (WAV files) and you have to identify the instrument from a number of choices.
Transposition
Transpose to and from concert pitch and the correct key for a particular instrument.
Assessment
Record Keeping & Assessment
Student Scores
Many items are recorded when students practise their music theory in Musition. Firstly, the syllabus, topic and level that the student has been working on. We also record how long they practised, and their scores, on a daily basis.
Many reports are available for the instructor, allowing them to easily provide students with advice directly related to their areas of practise.
Class Management
Classes allow you to group students and then assign tasks that are most relevant to their age and ability.
They are simple to setup and open up many powerful features;
- Selecting available topics
- Assigning appropriate syllabuses
- Setting tests & worksheets
- Assigning courses
The professor is another class feature, a simple and effective tool for guiding students through practise levels, with thresholds set by the instructor.
In addition to this, many features such as question retries are set by class, ensuring that students in different courses have the correct settings for their age and ability.
We also now allow students to belong to multiple classes. This gives teachers endless ways to organise students, and when combined with the new ‘hidden’ classes, makes it very simple to address the needs of a diverse group of students.
Tasks & Worksheets
Create theory worksheets in minutes, with automatic grading and assessment.
Tests are one of the most popular features in Musition. A test can contain questions from any syllabus, topic or level, and may also include library questions.
- Assign a test to any class
- Optional random question selection
- Optional time limits
- Library questions
- Set due dates and timeslots
- Weighted scoring options
Tests can be used for many many different types of activities; short quizzes, longer worksheets and formal assessment. It’s very common for teachers to assign their students two or three short tasks each week, a practise that makes reporting a breeze.
Assessment & Reports
Musition has been designed from the ground up to make a teacher’s life simpler, and save valuable time!
Scores are kept separately for the following areas;
- Practise
- Tests
- Courses
Comprehensive reports covering all these areas are available, with the most popular listed below.
- Student summary
- Student activity log
- Practise results, overall score
- Test score, overall
- Course results, overall
Intelligent filters reduce the amount of data that is presented, and make it easy to provide students with informed guidance.
- Percentage – highlight weak or strong students
- Class – only look at your students!
- Date – now with handy presets
- Test attempts – ‘best’, ‘last’, ‘combined’ scores
Any report can be exported as PDF or CSV.
Cloud
Cloud allows students to cost effectively use Auralia both on and off campus.
All student results are stored on our cloud servers, allowing teachers to check progress, create and assign tests, and print reports, at school or at home.
- Use on all school computers and laptops
- Students can use on home computers
- Set and track homework & assignments
- Results, classes, syllabi, tests are all stored on internet cloud servers
- Easy to install and deploy
Networking
Although most teachers prefer to use Cloud, it’s definitely possible to use Auralia on your local network.
If Auralia is correctly networked you won’t have to gather and collate student results from multiple computers. Students can use any computer that is connected to your network, but only within your school.
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