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New features in Auralia & Musition 3.5 for Windows
See also - features added in Auralia & Musition 3.0 for Windows.
Auralia and Musition 3.5 contain significant new features, with emphasis on student feedback, and administration and record keeping.
Auralia 3.5 Topic Changes | Musition 3.5 Topic Changes
Interface
A syllabus selection dropdown has been included on the main screen, automatically disabling any topics that aren’t relevant for the selected syllabus. This feature makes it much easier for students to access syllabus specific topics. There are also ‘Start Test’ and ‘Check my Results’ buttons on the main screen.
All ‘Correct’ and ‘Incorrect’ graphics have been revised, for use after students submit an answer. It is still possible to utilise a simple tick and cross.
Syllabus Features
Syllabus can now be exported and imported! This much requested feature will allow teachers, administrators and students to collaborate and share their customised content. This feature will be widely used when addressing particular curriculum requirements.
Three new built in syllabuses have been added - Trinity Guildhall, Western Australia (WACE) and Queensland (QCA). Further syllabuses will be added shortly.
Tests
Tests can also be exported and shared with students at home or with other colleagues. Importantly, tests with customised syllabus content can also be exported and imported.
It is also possible to modify test entires without removing the entry first. Replays can also be set to zero for any test entry.
Classes
Classes can now be copied (useful for year levels with multiple classes - 8a, 8b, 8c etc), and question retries can be set to zero.
See also - features added in Auralia & Musition 3.0 for Windows.
Auralia 3.5 Topic Changes
Topic |
Changes |
Cadences |
Enhanced question and answer playback on results screen. Phrygian half cadence added |
Counterpoint Singing |
Results screen now shows correct and incorrect answer notated on a score. |
Interval Comparison |
Results screen now correctly notates intervals on a score |
Interval Recognition |
Unison interval added, melodic question type split into two possible questions - first or last interval. Results screen improved to show correct and incorrect intervals on a score. |
Interval Singing |
Results screen now correctly notates intervals on a score |
Interval Imitation |
Results screen now correctly notates intervals on a score |
Jazz Chords |
Answer shown on a grand staff when using voiced chords |
Jazz Chord Progressions |
In the ‘Click in the Chords’ question type, keyboard shortcuts have been added to select the tonic note, and the number pad is used for accidentals. Barlines are now shown in the multiple choice question type. |
Melodic Comparison |
The number of replays are now shown on the drill screen. An option to tell the student the number of pitches that have been altered has been added. |
Meter Recognition |
The results screen has been improved - it now shows the rhythm notated on a score. |
Modulation |
Improvements to accidental display, extra files added for each type of modulation |
Pitch Comparison |
Results screen now shows the question and answer notated on a staff |
Pitch Dictation |
Results screen now shows the question and answer notated on a staff |
Pitch Imitation |
Results screen now shows the question and answer notated on a staff |
Rhythm Comparison |
The number of replays are now shown on the drill screen. An option to tell the student the number of bars that have been altered has been added. |
Rhythm Dictation |
Both the question and answer rhythms are now shown notated on a score |
Rhythm Element Dictation |
Barlines are now shown during drill and on the results screen. Notation has been significantly improved. |
Rhythm Imitation |
Results screen now shows the question and answer notated on a staff. |
Sight Singing |
Significant notation improvements |
Tuning |
Keyboard shortcut keys now added for use during ‘Tune the Interval’ question type |
Musition 3.5 Topic Changes
Topic |
Changes |
Concepts |
Many extra concepts added to support various syllabuses |
Enharmonic Notes |
All possible answers are now shown on the results screen |
Guitar Symbols |
G7 and various Minor chords in first position added |
Intervals |
A new question type - ‘What is the inversion of this interval’, has been added |
Modulation |
Minor tonic to Major flat 7th has been added |
Note Reading |
Any clef type can now be selected - this also applies to Advanced Note Reading |
Scales |
The multiple choice question type now shows the question and answer notated on the results screen. |
