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User Manual for Rising Software Auralia 5 Musition 5 Cloud Edition Bundle - Ear Training and Music Theory Software

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• Auralia 5 Cloud Edition - Ear Training Software (Student, Annual License, Download) Auralia 5 Cloud Edition from Rising Software is a comprehensive ear training software that uses real music to teach musicians how to imitate, compare, sing, identify, and transcribe various musical elements. It offers students of all ages and abilities a drill-based approach to contextual learning, and a fun, engaging way to practice, while giving teachers powerful tools to create customized syllabuses, set tasks and assignments, run exams, and track and assess the progress of their students. This annual Cloud Edition license provides flexible usage, allowing students to practice ear training at school, at home, or on the go.Auralia 5 comes with 43 topics divided into five groups: Intervals & Scales, Chords, Rhythm, Harmony & Form, and Pitch & Melody. Each topic has an accompanying lesson module in which students can learn to identify chords in their favorite songs, transcribe solos, improve their improvising, play by ear, sight sing with ease, and more. Teachers can use the included library of audio recordings and common-repertoire notations or import their own content, to create high-quality questions for their students. The clean and elegant interface is designed to provide students with feedback while keeping them focused on the essential ear training tasks.The software provides carefully sequenced levels that gradually introduce students to more difficult drills, allowing them to learn at their own pace. It also records students' activities such as what they studied, when they practiced, how long they practiced, and how they scored. Summary and detailed reports showing student progress can be easily generated and reviewed by both teacher and student, with no grading to be done. Note: This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students only (not for faculty/staff or academic institutions). A Cloud License can be used on computers within the school or at home. Pricing is for an annual subscription. All student records are stored in the Cloud.
  What's New in Version 5
  • • New content library has hundreds of pieces of repertoire ready to use—audio recordings, notation excerpts, questions
    • Import audio, notation, and images, and map content to curriculum
    • Create amazing questions using any item in the library, with control over student feedback and response—notation entry, notation highlighting, chord symbol entry, multiple choice, tapping
    • Integrated notation editor allows you to create your own scores, making it easy to customize melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation exercises
    • Notation editor offers unlimited parts, unlimited bars, beaming options & anacrusis support, ties & tuplets, MusicXML import, chord symbols (both contemporary and classical)
    • New test & courses features: integrate library questions, create question banks using library questions, set time limits (entire test or individual entries), make custom courses (for school curriculum mapping), test & course groups for easier navigation, run enhanced reports
    • New student Home area shows all tasks, tests, and courses that have been assigned to each student
    • Students can see their most recent practice and task activity, complete with scores and timing information—messages from the teacher appear right below
    • Improved Singing function with new microphone-setup wizard to help each student set their optimum input level, ensuring accurate pitch assessment
    • Students can hear their singing after it is assessed
    • New interface retains its trademark simplicity but with a modern clean look
    • New interface features include: improved student feedback (simpler with less clutter), drill revisions with an emphasis on consistency, administration changes (workflow improvements and handy shortcuts)
  Cloud Highlights
  • Teachers
    • Set and track assignments
    • Automatically record student scores
    • Cost effective
    
    Students
    • Practice ear training and theory on the go
    • Complete worksheets and tests at school or home
    • Teacher monitoring and advice
    • High-quality content
  Platforms and Browser
  • • Cloud client allows you to run ear training and theory tools directly in your Web browser
    • The browser client is completely integrated with existing Cloud services—simultaneous use of the traditional Windows client or Mac client is supported
    • Compatibility: Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iPad, iPhone, Android
  Flexible Usage and Comprehensive Assessment
  • • All student results are stored in the Cloud, allowing you to easily track progress and provide meaningful feedback
    • Students can work through courses, review lessons, complete tests, and take drills in many areas
    • Topics provided are suitable for jazz, contemporary, and classical students—beginners through to college level
  Practicing
  • • Drill-based learning provides a fun and easy way to practice, assess, and teach ear training
    • 43 ear training topics, each with carefully sequenced levels that gradually introduce students to more difficult drills—beginners and advanced students learn at their own pace
    • Students receive feedback when answering incorrectly
    • Includes playback, notation, and text explanations
  Content
  • • Content library contains hundreds of audio recordings, notation excerpts, and questions for your students to practice
    • Teachers can import their own items into the library, using them to create high-quality questions for their students
    • Integrated notation editor—unlimited parts and bars, control over beaming and grouping, anacrusis support, and ties allow you to create examples quickly and easily
    • Import and export MusicXML files—reuse any existing notation that you may have
  Learning
  • • Each topic has an accompanying Lessons module, where you can learn about the concepts that you will be practicing
    • Lessons contain text, audio recordings, and notation with electronic textbook to use at home and in the classroom
  Singing
  • • Pitch recognition technology allows students to sing their answers in many of the topics
    • Microphone setup wizard helps students set their input levels, ensuring accurate assessment
    • Students can hear their singing after it is assessed
  In the Classroom
  • • Students have unlimited ear training drills to practice
    • Student scores and progress recorded automatically
    • Automatic grading and assessment
    • Easy creation of worksheets, quizzes, and tests
    • Flexible and comprehensive administration tools
  Courses & Tests
  • • Courses & tests are a great way for teachers to supervise student activity and deliver curriculum-relevant content
    • Gives the teacher absolute control over the number and type of questions that students will attempt
    • When creating tests, the questions may come from any syllabus, topic or level, and you can also include library questions
    • Test scores are stored separately and tests can be taken multiple times if required
    • Courses are sequenced pathways that include questions and lessons— the teacher can set thresholds that must be hit before a student can progress to the next stage
  Syllabus Support
  • • Designed to support multiple syllabi so that students can practice ear-training topics relevant to the curriculum they are using
  Syllabuses Included
  • • Auralia 5 Complete
    • AP* Music Theory
    • Band
    • Jazz
    • Florida State MTA
    • GCSE
    • New Zealand
    • Trinity
    • VCE
    • Western Australia
    • Queensland
    • Solfege—Fixed Do
    • Solfegev—Moveable Do La
    • Solfege—Moveable Do
    • South Australia
  Syllabus Customization
  • • Create your own syllabi that match your curriculum—use it in your and tests and courses
    • Syllabi need only have levels for relevant topics—there is no limit to the number of levels you can create
    • Students only see topics that have levels, simplifying their practice screen and ensuring focus on the key areas
    • Creating a syllabus is simple, and can be assigned to any of your classes
  Solfege, Piano, and Guitar Input
  • • 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
    • Allows students to see their correct and incorrect answers in two ways, using both traditional notation and Solfege note names
    • Choice of on-screen piano keyboard or guitar fretboard
  Intervals & Scales
  • • Scale Singing—sing the notes of a certain scale shown on screen
    • Interval Comparison—identify which interval is larger or smaller
    • Interval Imitation—sing the interval that is played or shown on screen
    • Interval Recognition—identify an interval using a piano keyboard or guitar fretboard
    • Interval Singing—sing the second note of a required interval shown on screen
    • Jazz Scales—identify jazz scales shown on screen using a piano keyboard or guitar fretboard
    • Jazz Scale Singing—sing the notes of a certain jazz scale shown on screen
    • Scales—identify scales shown on screen using a piano keyboard or guitar fretboard
  Chords
  • • Chord Comparison—compare two chords, recognize the second chord or determine if they are the same
    • Chord Imitation—sing the chord played, the chord name may be shown on screen
    • Chord Recognition—in Chord Recognition, a chord is played and you are asked to identify the position and quality of the chord
    • Chord Singing—sing the notes above or below the chord played while the chord and direction are shown on screen
    • Cluster Chords—click the notes of a sequence of chords played, each successive chord has one extra note from the previous
    • Jazz Chord Imitation—sing the jazz chord played, the chord, name and direction are shown on screen
    • Jazz Chords—in Jazz Chords, a chord is played, and you are asked to identify the position and quality of the chord
    • Jazz Chord Singing—sing the notes above or below the jazz chord played, and the chord and direction are shown on screen
  Rhythm
  • • Rhythm Dictation—enter the rhythm on a score
    • Meter Recognition—identify the time signature of a rhythm or a melody
    • Pulse Tapping—tap the rhythm played
    • Rhythm Comparison—identify alterations between two rhythms played
    • Rhythm Elements—identify the rhythm pattern played
    • Rhythm Element Dictation—identify the rhythm played using rhythmic blocks
    • Rhythm Imitation—tap the rhythm played
    • Rhythm Styles—identify the style of the short musical excerpt
  Harmony & Form
  • • Part Dictation—transcribe the notes of a 4-part harmonic progression including basic chords and inversions
    • Advanced Part Dictation—transcribe the notes of a 4-part harmonic progression including chromatic and mixture chords
    • Advanced Progressions—identify the chord, quality & position of a 4-part harmonic progression including chromatic & mixture chords
    • Chord Progressions—identify the chord, quality & position of a 4-part harmonic progression
    • Cadences—identify the played cadences with or without a preceding melody
    • Forms—identify the form of the melody
    • Jazz Forms—identify the form of the short piece played
    • Jazz Progressions—identify the progression played by entering the individual chords, or from multiple choice
    • Modulation—identify the type of modulation or the final key of the two-part example played
  Pitch & Melody
  • • Melodic Dictation—enter the played melody on a score
    • Absolute Pitch—identify the exact notes that have been played, or the frequency (if waves are used)
    • Counterpoint Singing—sing the upper or lower notes of the short two-part phrase played
    • Melodic Singing—identify alterations between two melodies played
    • Note Recognition—sing the individual notes of a two or three note chord
    • Pitch Comparison—compare the pitch of two notes and identify if the second note is higher, lower, or the same as the first
    • Pitch Dictation—identify the pitch of each note in a melody played by clicking the notes on the staff or selecting the scale degree for each note
    • Pitch Imitation—sing back the note played
    • Sight Singing—sing back a melody using your microphone
    • Tuning—compare the two notes and identify if the second note is sharp, flat or in tune
  Student Scores
  • • Records what the students practiced, for how long they practiced and their scores
    • Instructor can pull up summary and detailed reports showing student progress with no grading to be done
    • Students can review their own scores on the home screen with topics and overall summaries provided
  Class Management
  • • Group your students and choose content that is most appropriate for each group
    • Classes allow you to control a number of items for your students: Selecting available topics, assigning appropriate syllabuses, setting tests & worksheets, assigning courses
    • The professor feature offers a simple and effective tool for guiding students through practice levels
    • Students can belong to multiple classes
  Tasks & Worksheets
  • • Allows teachers to set a particular task for their students
    • Testing feature contains questions from any syllabus, topic, or level, and may include library questions
  Assessment & Reports
  • • Reporting system allows you to easily monitor progress and provide the best direction for your students
    • Scores are kept separately for the following areas: practice, tests, courses
    • Student reports include: student summary, student activity log, practice results (overall score), test score (overall), course results (overall)
    • Reports have many intelligent filters to reduce the amount of information to review: Percentage (highlight weak or strong students), Class (only look at your students), Date (with handy presets), Test Attempts (best, last, combined scores)
    • Any report can be exported as PDF or CSV files
• Musition 5 Cloud Edition - Music Theory Software (Student, Annual License, Download) Musition 5 Cloud Edition from Rising Software is a comprehensive music theory learning software designed to teach musicians the skills to read sheet music, recognize time signatures, notate rhythms, understand intervals, match key signatures, and more. It offers students of all ages and abilities a drill-based approach to contextual learning, and a fun, engaging way to expand their knowledge and practice. It gives teachers powerful tools to create customized syllabuses, set tasks and assignments, run exams, and track and assess the progress of their students. This annual license of the Cloud Edition provides flexible usage, allowing students to learn music theory at school, at home, or on the go. Musition 5 comes with 38 topics divided into five groups: Pitch, Rhythm, Terms & Symbols, Harmony, and Instruments. Each topic has an accompanying lesson module where students can learn to read and write music, understand scale and chord structures, improve their sense of rhythm, understand instrument keys and transposition, comprehend musical terms and symbols, and more. Teachers can use the included library of notations and questions, or import their own content, to create high-quality questions for their students. The clean and elegant interface is designed to provide students with feedback while keeping them focused on the essential training tasks. The software provides carefully sequenced levels that gradually introduce students to more difficult drills, allowing them to learn at their own pace. It also records student's activities such as what and when they practiced, how long they practiced, and their scores. Summary and detailed reports showing student progress can be easily generated and reviewed by both teacher and student, with no grading to be done. Note: This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students only (not for faculty/staff or academic institutions). A Cloud License can be used on computers within the school or at home. Pricing is for an annual subscription. All student records are stored in the Cloud.
  What's New in Version 5
  • • New content library has hundreds of pieces of repertoire ready to use: notation excerpts, images, questions
    • Import notation and images to create questions and map content to curriculum
    • Library questions: any library item can be used to create high-quality questions, from simple, multiple choice to harmonic analysis including notation entry, notation highlighting, chord symbol entry, tapping
    • Notation editor: create simple scores inside Musition, save them to the library, and use the score in your own questions with unlimited parts, unlimited bars, beaming options & anacrusis support, ties & tuplets, MusicXML import, and chord symbols (both contemporary and classical)
    • Tests & courses: integrated library questions, question banks using library questions, time limits (entire test or individual entries), custom courses (perfect for school curriculum mapping), test & course groups for easier navigation, enhanced reports
    • Student tasks: new student Home area shows all tasks, tests, and courses that have been assigned to each student including the most urgent tasks which are right at the top of the list
    • Students can see their most recent practice and task activity complete with scores and timing information including messages from their teacher appear right below
    • Historical practice, test, and course results are also available, allowing students to review their progress over time
    • New interface blends simplicity with a modern clean feel
    • Interface features include improved student feedback (simpler with less clutter), drill revisions with an emphasis on consistency, and administrative changes (workflow improvements and handy shortcuts)
  Cloud Highlights
  • Teachers
    • Set and track assignments
    • Student scores automatically recorded
    • Cost effective
    • Practice ear training and theory on the go
    • Complete worksheets and tests at school or home
    • Teacher monitoring and advice
    • High-quality content
  Platforms and Browser
  • • Cloud client allows you to run ear training and theory tools directly in your web browser
    • Browser client is completely integrated with existing Cloud services which allow simultaneous use of the traditional Windows and Mac client is supported
    • Compatibility: Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iPad, iPhone, Android
  Flexible Usage and Comprehensive Assessment
  • • All student results are stored in the Cloud, allowing you to easily track progress and provide meaningful feedback
    • Students can work through courses, review lessons, complete tests, and take drills in many areas
    • Topics provided are suitable for jazz, contemporary, and classical students, from beginners through to college level
  Practicing
  • • Drill-based learning provides a fun and easy way to practice, assess, and teach music theory
    • 38 music theory topics, each with carefully sequenced levels that gradually introduce students to more difficult drills. Beginners and advanced students learn at their own pace
    • In addition to the provided syllabuses, teachers can easily create their own syllabus and custom levels
    • Students receive feedback when answering incorrectly
    • Includes playback, notation, and text explanations
  Content
  • • Content library contains hundreds of audio recordings, notation excerpts, and questions for your students to practice
    • Teachers can import their own items into the library and use them in any topic, test or course, ensuring that curriculum requirements are met
    • Integrated notation editor includes unlimited parts and bars, control over beaming and grouping, anacrusis support, and ties, that allow you to create examples quickly and easily
    • Import and export MusicXML files: reuse any existing notation that you may have
  In the Classroom
  • • Students have virtually unlimited theory drills to practice. All questions, scores, and progress is recorded and automatically graded
    • Assessment is simple using the tests and courses, and curriculum customization ensures that students stay on track
    • Easy creation of worksheets, quizzes, and tests
    • Flexible and comprehensive administrative tools
  Syllabus Support
  • • Designed to support multiple syllabi, so that students can practice ear training topics relevant to the curriculum they are using
    • Create your own syllabi that match your curriculum and use it in your tests and courses
    • Once you have assigned a syllabus to your classes, students only see topics that you have chosen for them, ensuring focused practice
  Syllabi Included
  • • 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
  Lessons
  • • Each topic has an accompanying Lesson screen containing notation and audio examples plus detailed explanations of the relevant music theory subject
    • Topics such as Instrument Recognition, Chords, and Scales also feature a reference page where all instruments, chords, and scales can be viewed and played back
    • Reference pages also automatically show any customized chords or scales that you may have entered into Musition
  Courses
  • • Courses provide a structured learning sequence for your students, allowing you to integrate lessons, drills, library questions, and tests, in the one task
    • Create your own course, assign them to your students, and monitor their progress
    • Teacher can set thresholds that must be hit before a student can progress to the next stage
  Solfege, Piano, and Guitar Input
  • • Onscreen Solfege controller allows students to enter their answers using Solfege note names (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, etc.), as well as allowing questions to be displayed on the Solfege controller
    • Allows students to see their correct and incorrect answers in two ways, using both traditional notation and Solfege note names
    • Choice of onscreen piano keyboard or guitar fretboard
  Pitch
  • • Note Reading: identify notes on a staff, or enter notes on a staff
    • Scale Degrees: recognize a key signature and then identify the scale degree that a given note occupies within the key
    • 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 its 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
    • Meter Recognition: identify time signatures and their characteristics
    • 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 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 using an external MIDI device such as a keyboard or wind controller, if connected
    • Polyrhythms: practice 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
    • Ornaments: identify ornaments such as trills, acciaccatura, appoggiatura, and more
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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 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 are 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 need to identify the chord quality as well as the position
    • Modulation: identify the type of modulation (e.g. Major Tonic – Relative Minor) or identify the final key of the example
  Instruments
  • • Clef Transposition: transpose short melodies from one clef to another
    • Range: identify the range of various instruments
    • 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 must identify the instrument from several choices
    • Transposition: transpose to and from concert pitch and the correct key for a particular instrument
  Student Scores
  • • Records what the students practiced, for how long they practiced, and what they scored
    • The instructor can pull up summary and other detailed reports showing student progress, without grading
  Class Management
  • • Group your students and choose content that is most appropriate for each group
    • Classes allow you to select available topics, assign appropriate syllabuses, set tests & worksheets, assign courses
    • The professor feature offers a simple and effective tool for guiding students through practice levels, with thresholds set by the instructor
    • Students can belong to multiple classes
  Tasks & Worksheets
  • • Create theory worksheets in minutes with automatic grading and assessment
    • Allows teachers to set a particular task for their students
    • Testing feature contains questions from any syllabus, topic or level, and may include library questions
  Assessment & Reports
  • • Reporting system allows you to easily monitor progress and provide the best direction for your students
    • Scores are kept separately for the following areas: practice, tests, courses
    • Student reports include: student summary, student activity log, practice results (overall score), test score (overall), course results (overall)
    • Reports have many intelligent filters to reduce the amount of information to review: Percentage (highlight weak or strong students), Class (only look at your students), Date (with handy presets), Test Attempts (best, last, combined scores)
    • Any report can be exported as PDF or CSV files

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• Auralia 5 Cloud Edition - Ear Training Software (Student, Annual License, Download)

  System Requirements

  Windows 7, 8, or 10 500 MB hard disk space (initial without media downloads) Internet connection required for initial activation Internet connection required for ongoing media downloads & Cloud edition Screen Resolution Students: 1024 x 768 or 1152 x 720 (minimum) Screen Resolution Instructors: 1280 x 768 (minimum) Mac OS X 10.9 or later 500 MB hard disk space (initial without media downloads) Internet connection required for initial activation Internet connection required for ongoing media downloads & Cloud edition Screen Resolution Students: 1152 x 720 (minimum) Screen Resolution Instructors: 1280 x 800 (minimum)

• Musition 5 Cloud Edition - Music Theory Software (Student, Annual License, Download)

  System Requirements

  Windows 7, 8, or 10 500 Mb hard disk space (initial without media downloads) Internet connection required for initial activation Internet connection required for ongoing media downloads & Cloud edition Screen Resolution – Students: 1024 x 768 or 1152 x 720 (minimum) Screen Resolution – Instructors: 1280 x 768 (minimum) Mac OS X 10.9 or later 500 Mb hard disk space (initial without media downloads) Internet connection required for initial activation Internet connection required for ongoing media downloads & Cloud edition Screen Resolution Students: 1152 x 720 (minimum) Screen Resolution Instructors: 1280 x 800 (minimum)

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