|
|
|
| Composer Notes Volume 1 Student Edition |
|
Composer Notes Volume 1 Teacher Kit, School Pack, Lab Pack, Site License Composer Notes Volume 1 - Editorial The Electronic book for Composition and instrumentation Music Education CD-ROM -- PC and Mac (hybrid) suitable K7 through K12 and beyondThe focus of Composer Notes is in teaching composition skills and the understanding of a range of common musical instruments. It is divided into two main sections -- the first providing creative inspiration for both traditional and MIDI composition and the second for demonstrating the technical possibilities of each instrument. There are clear paths of progression students can follow at their own pace and at three different levels -- making the resource ideal for use in a music computer lab. Alternatively teachers can use ideas and examples in classroom lessons. Every screen doubles as printable page for creating overhead transparencies or worksheets and the musical examples are also listed as tracks on the included audio CD.Flexible to suit different curriculum needsMusic teachers have been catered for in many different forms, recognizing that most prefer to adapt teaching materials to their own taste. Composer Notes is set up to enable teachers to either only use what they need or to allow them to follow its own very well thought out paths. The tasks are very creative, practical, fun and often open ended. This allows them to be used in a mixed - ability classes as there is always potential for extended work on each task. Alternatively students can attempt the parallel tasks at higher or lower levels.Quality is outstanding at every stage. The recordings are all by excellent musicians and recorded at full CD quality. Each page/screen is beautifully set out to present each concept with great clarity. A detailed glossary of terms and guitar chords -- including alternative fingerings -- is invaluable. Internet Curriculum support Owners of Composer Notes have free access to teaching lesson plans, which are downloadable from the Composer Notes web site. These prescriptive plans provide teachers with a wealth of teaching ideas and are used to enhance the use of Composer Notes in music classrooms or student music technology labs. New plans are being continually developed and can save literally hours of teaching preparation time. A self- contained curriculum for music technology that links to any music program!One of the most exciting elements for the modern music classroom is the in-built curriculum that Composer Notes provides for students to make use of sequencing and notation programs. This curriculum is graded into different levels of difficulty and ranges from introductory activities to complete projects suitable for end-of-year music technology assignments. Two outstanding animations give a 'live' demonstration of how to go about assembling a composition using a sequencing program. The advice is straightforward and effective. The Composer Notes MidilinkerTM allows all of the musical examples and composition activities to be opened in any music program - maximizing a school's existing educational investment in other music software by providing a curriculum to support it!Outstanding Instrumentation sectionThe Composer Notes instrumentation section is essential to anyone wanting to compose -- first rate recordings are provided of each different instrumental technique, with an explanation of how and why they are created. Pitch ranges and dynamics are covered in detail, as well as dozens of more specialized aspects- for example all the different violin bowing techniques and all the types of mutes available for brass instruments. Composer Notes even goes as far as explaining left-hand guitar notation and woodwind multi-phonics! Musical examples are drawn from a variety of styles so that all tastes are catered for and a general tone of acceptance of all musical genres is prevalent. All musical examples are correctly scored and matched up with a recorded demonstration that is played by simply clicking on the on-screen score, or using the audio CD.Configurations for any music school size or budgetComposer Notes is installed onto your computer's hard drive. A school installation kit that includes individual installations for students is available, or it can be purchased as a standalone teacher CD-ROM. Technical things like installation and navigation are simple and straightforward. A Student Edition without the information used by Teachers- Internet Lesson Plans, Audio CD, or Printing - is also available.What people and educators are saying:Television news bulletin, Six-O'clock news Television New Zealand channel 1, August 2000
"The Modern-day equivalent of a Music Teacher's Swiss army knife"
"Overall there is too much to say about Composer Notes... I have used this now for two years as it has been developed and can testify that it works in many different guises for all manner of students ...I am still discovering more ways in which it can be used every day, both in the classroom and in lesson planning...You can tailor Composer Notes to your teaching programme, or vice versa. Invest your department budget in it...You will not regret it."
"Composer Notes is a program which every music educator should own, it is well designed, clearly conceived and elegantly executed. Furthermore, with its web links to continually updated curriculum documents, it is a resource that will remain relevant for years to come.
"A lifesaving resource for teaching composition, whether at Y9 core music or Y13 Bursary ... I've been using COMPOSER NOTES for the past 12 months and the speed with which my students are learning the fundamentals of composition and their understanding of the instruments they are writing for is amazing. It's a huge time-saver and a valuable resource for the music teacher, regardless of their personal background in composition. There are many ways use the resource: one teacher and a class of 30 students, with an OHT and audio CD, a student working independently, as a supplement, or in a lab situation with one student per computer. Students are able to work through the same material, but find completely different pathways according to their own bias and creative personality.
|
 |
|
Stock#: 23961 Publisher: MIDIWORKS INTERACTIVE Code: Platform: WIN Type: Music Training Weight (lbs): 2.00 List: Sale:$CALL
|
 |
Copyright © 1996, 2007, MIDI Classics®, Revised 05/24/2007