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Town 4 Kids Music Lab Melody W
Musicware's Music Lab Series is a computer-based
tutoring system that assures that students have a
successful experience in learning to sing, read and
write music. Music Lab Series is organized in a complete
skill development system at progressive achievement
levels in two sections: Basic and Advanced.
Basic
is designed for beginning and developing musicians of
any age. Advanced is designed for students at the
college and conservatory level. The learning process at
both levels involves practicing real musical tasks with
immediate feedback to build success and confidence.
With
the help of your computer's soundcard, the software
"reads" a student's singing voice (through a microphone)
to give accurate and immediate feedback on the student's
input. There is no "practicing of mistakes" since all
student work is constantly monitored for the best
possible learning experience. Recommended for anyone
ages 8 to adult.
Music Lab Melody is designed to teach music literacy:
the ability to read and write music, to know and sing
sounds that are notated and to notate musical sounds
that are heard, thought or remembered. The goal of Music
Melody is two-fold: first, for the student to be able to
look at the notes of a melody and know how they will
sound and to be able to sing them; second, for the
student to be able to look at rhythmic notation and know
how it will sound and to be able to tap it out without
counting.
Complete record keeping and testing for the individual,
private teacher or school is also available. The basis
for this accountability is the MLM quiz mode which the
student may elect at any time for each level of any
module.
In quiz
mode, the musical problems are exactly the same as in
practice mode, but all Help is shut down and all student
work is scored and retained by the computer. This gives
the individual or teacher a reliable system for judging
student progress. In order to "pass off" a level of any
module the student must achieve a certain score. While a
default score is provided for the teacher as a point of
reference, the individual teacher is the one who decides
the score that is to be considered "passing".
The
teacher may also decide what levels of what modules are
important for that particular student at that time. It
is the teacher and student who have the ultimate control
over what is studied and how much skill is expected.
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