Sibelius Compass

by Sibelius

Product Features

• Resources and activities to support composition classes
• Designed for use by teachers and students
• Use at the computer or create handouts and worksheets
• Special IT activities that link to Sibelius or a sequencer
• Hundreds of exercises; high school and college levels

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001XDYSQ
• Item model number: 9910-42518-00
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 19, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,664 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #8 in Software > Video & Music > Software > MIDI
  • #21 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing
  • #27 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Libraries

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Sibelius Compass is a set of resources and activities for use by teachers and students to support composition classes. The software can be used at your computer, or to create handouts and worksheets. It includes special IT activities that link to Sibelius or a sequencer.

Features:

• Hundreds of exercises
• High school and college levels
• Integrates with Sibelius and sequencers
• Progressive lessons
• Special technology section

Product Description

NOTE: This product is available in the U.S. and Canada only. This is a special version of Compass priced for educators.Compass sets out to demistify the often daunting task of learning music composition. Sibelius Compass is a unique program to help students learn how to compose. It includes lessons, worksheets and self-tests covering a wide range of topics, leading on to complete composition projects. For each lesson, students study relevant interactive topics, test themselves with the built-in quiz, and try out what they've learned in the Tracker. Topics include melody, harmony, scales, rhythm, dynamics, transformations, timbre, texture, and form. Compass brings out the composer in all of us!Sibelius Compass at a Glance:TrackerStructured projectsTrackerCompass's Tracker is a unique educational sequencer which helps students record and develop musical ideas. It includes 1200 motives (e.g. chord sequences, rhythms, scales) to use - plus tools to create canons, inversions, ostinati etc., and combine material in new ways.Structured projectsThe lessons lead on to composition projects such as theme and variations, songwriting and blues. Students develop music in the Tracker, and can also transfer it to Sibelius 3 or any sequencer.Sibelius Compass Features:Extensive lessons and composition projectsWide range of stylesUnique Tracker educational sequencer33 quizzes, marked automaticallySupports MENC and QCA standardsSibelius Compass - The art of composition!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money, June 28, 2011

By 

spencer c beatty - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sibelius Compass (CD-ROM)

Here's how it works. You spend WAY TOO MUCH money on this software that looks and feels like you are back in the mid-nineties once you start using it. You go to the first lesson (which will be in a really small window with no expansion or full screen options and then press "play" to hear the audio example attached to the lesson. At that point, either a red X appears over the box nothing appears. In either case you HEAR NOTHING. Since the program has now setup or options or file menu to configure anything you go to the user manual. The user manual has precisely ZERO troubleshooting tips. So then you go to the website and find out that you will not be able to so much as email anyone who can answer a simple question without paying for the priveledge to do so. Also, hope you are a QuickTime user because it ALLEGEDLY plays examples through quick-time and quick-time only. If you install the "free" quicktime off of the disc you get a trial version of quicktime that needs a registration code that is not provided. Thus, you must pay money to quicktime if you want a player for the alleged music and sounds built into this program. I am certain that this was a valuable program in 1996, but right now it is a big waste of time and mostly money, but hey, clearly Microsoft needed their cut and that jacked the price up. Seems we could have gotten a registration code for Quick Time out of the deal.
My advice. Don't buy this or any other Sibelius product. Buy their stock. They have a 95% profit margin on all their software.

bottom line: Not just a waste of money and time but a straight insulting kick to your genitals. And you pay them for the priveledge.