Auralia 2 Single User Academic for Mac

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Product Features

• Comprehensive ear training & aural testing
• Monitors student progress
• Suitable for all ages and levels
• Hundreds of exercises in 26 topics
• Saves hours of preparation time; suitable for all ages and levels

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001XDVV6
• Item model number: 9910-42409-00
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 19, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,584 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Auralia is the comprehensive software for ear training and aural tests. Auralia’s interactive lessons make ear training easy and fun. It guides students through hundreds of graded exercises and provides instant feedback. You can even play or sing answers using a MIDI keyboard or microphone. Auralia automatically marks the exercises for you and records the results so you can monitor student progress. Auralia is perfect for schools, colleges, universities, and anyone learning or teaching an instrument.

Features:

• Ear training and aural testing
• Saves hours of preparation time
• Hundreds of exercises in 26 topic areas
• Monitors student progress
• Suitable for all ages and levels

Product Description
Auralia's interactive tuition makes ear training easy and fun. It guides students through hundreds of graded exercises, and gives instant feedback. You can even play or sing answers using a MIDI keyboard or microphone. Auralia automatically marks the exercises so students can use it on their own, freeing up hours of teaching time. It even records student results so you can monitor their progress over time. Auralia is perfect for schools, colleges, universities and anyone learning or teaching an instrument. Matthew Haworth, Egglescliffe School: "The Sibelius suite of educational software has revolutionised my music teaching. In particular Auralia has made ear training much more accessible for students and has enabled me to set out-of-class activities that I was previously unable to do. I use Auralia with whole classes via an interactive whiteboard and set groups of pupils individual tasks. Individual pupils can keep detailed personalised records of their progress. In my school Auralia transformed ear training from being a time consuming activity with whole classes to a much more individualised learning experience that is made accessible and enjoyable. Auralia has hundreds of exercises from beginner to advanced levels, covering 26 topics such as: Identify & sing intervals, and notes from chords, Melodic and rhythmic dictation, Identify cadences, Recognize and correct poor tuning, Sing upper or lower part of a two-part phrase, Write down chord progressions. The tests are designed for classical, jazz and rock/pop students, with special exercises on jazz/contemporary scales, chords and progressions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Auralia review, September 29, 2007

By	Josiah Bartlett "aMateur musician" (Boston area) - See all my reviews

Auralia is generally an excellent product. Could be improved by explaining wrong answers - for example, if an interval with notes played together is
mis-identified, the notes should be played separately.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lack Luster, February 5, 2009

By	A. Baulo (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's sad that this is the only version of Auralia that's available for Mac. This editions is VERY old and is low on features. The few features that it does have can easily be found somewhere else. The ancient interface is appropriate for the overall feel of the program. I have been studying ear-training for 2+ years and have found more effective, and easier to use features everywhere else for little or no money.
For starters, www.musictheory.net offers a wonderful flash program that can do intervals and chords, melodic and harmonic. It even offers and offline download. As for melodic/rhythmic dictaion, just google something. You can at least find a program for less than this one.