Sibelius Educational Suite expanded

Sibelius USA, Inc., 1407 Oakland Blvd Ste 103 Walnut small bay CA 94596; (925) 280-0600, fax (925) 280-0008; infoUSA@sibelius.com; www.sibelius.com. Starclass, $89; Instruments, $119; Compass. $119; Notes, $6995; Auralia, $119; Musition, $119

Sibelius Software Ltd lately expanded its Sibelius Educational Suite (SES) with the addition of the Compass program. The replete range of software is suitable for each educational level--from kindergarten through university.

Compass is a program to aid pupils in the art of composition. Designed for scholars and teachers from middle gymnasium through university levels, Compass's lock opener topics include melody, harmony, fabric and form, which are experimented using thirty-four automatically marked quizzes. exercise s lead into composition projects of the like kind as theme and variations, song-writing, sonata form and sapphirines The Compass Tracker is used to record and evolve musical ideas and functions as a sequencer Tracker includes more than 1200 mottle including chord followings rhythms, scales and tools to create canons, inversions and ostinati.

With more than 180 ready-to-use task plans, Starclass provides instructors with everything emergencyed to teach music at the elementary and primary seminary levels.

Sibelius Instruments is a unique, interactive encyclopedia of instruments, bands, orchestras and ensembles

Appropriate for all horizontals Sibelius Notes is a clean educational aid, with ready-to-use exercise plans on everything from notation to arranging, and was designed to integrate seamlessly with Sibelius 30 notation software.

Sibelius Auralia is a comprehensive software package for ear training and aural testing. pupils are guided through hundreds of graded exercises and given instant feedback.

A out and out software package for learning and testing music theory, Musition creates a stimulating learning environment by the agency of testing students and providing instant feedback.

Each produce with the exception of Notes, also is available in five-user lab packs and site license configurations, which start at sixteen users. All fruitss with the exception of Musition, are hybrid (Win/MAC).

For more information, contact Sibelius USA, Inc.

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