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ECS Music Education Software
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Vocal Instruction
Need a little vocal help? Look no further as this group provides vocalists with performance building development and
multi-cultural instruction.
Audio Mirror - Listens to notes in realtime and determines
the note sung and how sharp or flat it is.
Ear Training
The following programs help you develop tonal memory skills in recognizing intervals, chords, and pitch patterns. Immediate
feedback, review options and visual reinforcement make these programs essential for any musician's education.
Adventures in Musicland - Four unique music games featuring characters
from Alice in Wonderland.
Aural Skills Trainer - Improve ability to perceive and identify
intervals and chords.
Cloud 9 Music - Unstructured exploration of pitch, composition, and
rhythm in a fun, aerial-theme environment.
Ear Challenger - An aural-visual music game to increase the memory
of a series of pitches.
Harmonic Progressions - Help improve functional harmonic
analysis.
Keyboard Kapers - Key recognition, Ear training, Speed drills.
Music Theory Builder - Better identify visually or aurally
major, minor, diminished, and augmented intervals and chords
Musique - Self-paced exercises for theory instruction.
Pitch Challenger - A unique program to improve pitch matching
skills.
Super Ear Challenger - Aural-visual game to increase tonal
memory of a series of pitches.
Music Theory
The programs in this section are designed to teach music theory concepts for the beginner, intermediate or advanced user.
Elements of Music - Entry level music program for children or
adults.
Functional Harmony - Develop harmonic analysis skills.
Harmonic Progressions - Help improve functional harmonic
analysis.
inForm - View and mark up a musical score while listening to the
piece.
Keyboard Chords - Presents qualities of simple chords, allowing
drills and practice thereof.
Keyboard Extended Jazz Harmonies - Teaches to identify and build
9th, 11th, and 13th chords.
Keyboard Intervals - Learn to play major, minor, diminished,
augmented intervals.
Keyboard Jazz Harmonies - Learn chord symbols, 7th chord
recognition, chord spelling.
Music Flash Cards - Important music material in a
drill-and-practice format.
Music Skill Builder - Comprehensive music theory program
for beginning through early advanced. Customizable lessons to fit your teaching style and curriculum.
Music Theory Builder - Better identify visually or
aurally major, minor, diminished, and augmented intervals and chords
Musical Stairs - Aural-visual drill-and-practice with
intervallic relationships.
Musique - Self-paced exercises for theory instruction.
Pianomouse - Music Theory FUNdamentals - Offers 16
lessons and 16 games introducing basic musical concepts.
Note Reading
Note Reading plays an integral part in everyone's musical studies. The following titles are perfect skill builders with their
drill and practice approach to learning to read music.
Adventures in Musicland - Four unique music games featuring
characters from Alice in Wonderland.
Clef Notes - Improve students' note identification speed.
Early Keyboard Skills - Learn and identify piano key names and note
names with five different games.
Early Music Skills - Tutorials and drills for the beginning music
student.
Elements of Music - Entry level music program for children or
adults.
Keyboard Kapers - Key recognition, Ear training, Speed drills.
Keyboard Note Drill - Increase speed in identifying notes.
Keyboard Speed Reading - Timed drills to increase speed of
note/key recognition.
K.I.D.S. - Basic music fundamentals for ages 4-7.
Music Flash Cards - Important music material in a
drill-and-practice format.
Music Skill Builder - Comprehensive music theory program
for beginning through early advanced. Customizable lessons to fit your teaching style and curriculum.
Note Detective - Graphic tutorial and game series to help develop
piano keyboard skills.
Note Speller - Drill and practice game to teach notes on the
staff.
Smack-A-Note - Learn staff note reading, solfege, and piano key
names.
Thematic Analysis
Visualize musical form while you listen to fantasic works. Or,
create your own colorful analysis from audio CD's, MP3's, and MIDI
files.
inForm - View and mark up a musical
score while listening to the piece.
TimeSketch
Editor - Facilitate listening and aurally analyzing CD music.
TimeSketch
Editor PRO - Facilitate listening and aurally analyzing CD
music.
TimeSketch
Series - A series of TimeSketches done to well known musical
pieces.
TimeSketch Web
site
Books and eBooks
ECS offers both hardcopy (text) and eBook (electronic format in PDF) versions of these
titles, as indicated. EBooks are available as a downloadable product from this ECSMedia
website.
Electronic Courseware Software Curriculum Guide
(eBook and Text) – A reference guide listing 47 software programs by content descriptions, graded difficulty,
and National Standards applications with quick reference lists. (A special version is also available for Texas
schools using the TEKS guidelines.)
MENC E-Books - 4 MENC publications are available
as e-books.
- Applications of Research in Music
Technology - A summary of research findings in instructional technology that relate to music education, with
practical teaching methods and suggestions.
- Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for
Music Technology - Provides more specific guidance to music teachers, administrators, and other decision makers who
must determine how best to take advantage of new technologies in the ongoing effort to give every American student a
full, balanced curriculum oriented toward the skills and knowledge set forth in the National Standards.
- Spotlight on Technology in the Music
Classroom - Learn how to teach with technology, make the most of the Internet, buy and use hardware and software,
enhance digital and audio recording, and improve classroom administration.
- Strategies for Teaching: Technology -
Presenting practical teaching strategies for using electronic technologies to achieve the National Music
Standards, this eBook provides ideas for elementary, middle, and high school teachers of general music and
performing ensembles, as well as high school theory, music technology, keyboards, and music history.
Planning
Guide to Successful Computer Instruction (eBook and Text) - A guide developed to offer procedures and to
make decisions on selecting hardware and software for instructional computer stations and laboratories.
Checklists are included for software evaluations and budget planning.
Teaching Music with Technology - Tom Rudolph once again
takes the challenging and complex subject of using technology in the music classroom, and makes it understandable on
every level.
Educator Resources
The following software products are helpful in and out of the classroom as electronic aids, including a
practice monitor, a computer-based test and a word quiz generator.
Digital Metro-Tuner - A computer-based Metronome
and a Tuner turns a computer desktop into a real-time tuner. Microphone is not included.
Digital
Music Mentor - A computer-based digital recorder with options for teachers to store live performance models
for student to compare their own effort while recording their assignments. Microphone not included.
ECSMedia Macintosh OS X and Windows XP
Compatibility Chart – An on-line reference chart for owners of newer computers. This listing features ECS
software products that run natively in Mac OS X and Windows XP.
Rhythm Performance
Test Revised - A computer-based assessment tool to judge rhythm accuracy and performance of steady beat and
rhythm patterns by children. This is a standardized test with test manual and norms with comparisons to grade
group scores.
Spell &
Define - A teacher utility to be used to create custom vocabularies, complete with voice, to drill students.
Use as a computer-based spelling quiz for students in any field including music, foreign languages, or general
spelling lessons.
Tap It Rhythm Creator - Create your own rhythm exercises
and drills.
Tap It Rhythm Player - Download the companion to Tap It
Rhythm Creator and some sample lessons.
Jazz Studies
From the basic 12-Bar Blues to improvising with Samba tunes our Jazz
programs will expand your performance and theory horizons in this exciting
genre.
Keyboard
Blues - Presents simple blues chords, allowing drills and practice thereof.
Keyboard
Extended Jazz Harmonies - Teaches to identify and build 9th, 11th,
and 13th chords.
Keyboard Jazz
Harmonies - Learn chord symbols, 7th chord recognition, chord
spelling.
MIDI Jazz
Improvisation Volumes I and II - Allows practice with original jazz tunes.
Piano Skills
ECS has designed several programs in piano instruction. The following
titles introduce several performance applications and basic skill development
concepts.
Ear Challenger - An aural-visual music game to increase the memory of a series of pitches.
Early Keyboard
Skills - Learn and identify piano key names and note names with five different games.
Early Music Skills - Tutorials and drills for the beginning music student.
Echos - Strengthens sightreading skills, rhythmic and note reading accuracy.
Elements of Music - Entry level music program for children or adults.
Keyboard Arpeggios - Reviews arpeggio performance and fingerings.
Keyboard
Blues - Presents simple blues chords, allowing drills and practice thereof.
Keyboard
Chords - Presents qualities of simple chords, allowing drills and practice thereof.
Keyboard
Extended Jazz Harmonies - Teaches to identify and build 9th, 11th,
and 13th chords.
Keyboard
Fingerings - Reviews standard and special fingerings.
Keyboard
Intervals - Learn to play major, minor, diminished, augmented intervals.
Keyboard Jazz
Harmonies - Learn chord symbols, 7th chord recognition, chord
spelling.
Keyboard
Kapers - Key recognition, Ear training, Speed drills.
Keyboard
Note Drill - Increase speed in identifying notes.
Keyboard
Speed Reading - Timed drills to increase speed of note/key recognition.
K.I.D.S. - Basic music fundamentals for ages 4-7.
Music Theory Builder - Better identify visually or
aurally major, minor, diminished, and augmented intervals and chords
Musical
Stairs - Aural-visual drill-and-practice with intervallic relationships.
Note Detective - Graphic tutorial and game series to help develop piano keyboard skills.
Note Speller - Drill and practice game to teach notes on the staff.
Ricochet - Follow the leader - quickly! Develops better piano and ear training skills.
Smack-A-Note - Learn staff note reading, solfege, and piano key names.
Symbol Simon - Identify music symbols and match with definitions.
Super
Ear Challenger - Aural-visual game to increase tonal memory of a series of pitches.
Appreciation and Terminology
Can you name the Baroque composer who died from
blood poisoning after dropping a metal baton on his foot? What does the term crescendo mean?
Learn musical terms or interesting facts on composers from the titles
offered in this comprehensive group.
Adventures in
Musicland - Four unique music games featuring characters from Alice
in Wonderland.
Music Composer
Quiz - Quiz program with 100 composer-related questions included.
Music
History Review: Composers - Tests knowledge of composers.
Music Terminology - Improve knowledge of music terminology.
Music
Terminology for Bands, Orchestras and Choirs - Fundamental music terminology for Bands, Orchestras and Choirs.
Pianomouse - Meets
the Great Composers - Volume 1 - Includes information and games for 8 well-known composers.
Spell &
Define - A teacher utility to be used to create custom vocabularies, complete with voice, to drill students.
Use as a computer-based spelling quiz for students in any field including music, foreign languages, or general
spelling lessons.
Symbol Simon - Identify music symbols and match with
definitions.
Kids Stuff
Characters from Alice in Wonderland to note-eating dinosaurs, our titles
in this category are sure to offer delight to the young. Colorful graphics
introduce basic musical skills in fun attention-holding games.
Adventures in
Musicland - Four unique music games featuring characters from Alice in Wonderland.
Challenge
Musicus - Gain understanding of relative lengths of notes, rests, ties.
Cloud 9 Music - Unstructured exploration of pitch, composition, and rhythm in a fun, aerial-theme environment.
Ear Challenger - An aural-visual music game to increase the memory of a series of pitches.
Early Keyboard
Skills - Learn and identify piano key names and note names with five different games.
Early Music Skills - Tutorials and drills for the beginning music student.
Echos - Strengthens sightreading skills, rhythmic and note reading accuracy.
K.I.D.S. - Basic music fundamentals for ages 4-7.
Musicus - Action music game - maneuver blocks of rhythm in specific meters.
Note Detective - Graphic tutorial and game series to help develop piano keyboard skills.
Note Speller - Drill and practice game to teach notes on the staff.
Pianomouse - Goes
to Preschool - Pianomouse has moved to the head of the class as he teaches young children their Musical ABCs.
Pianomouse - Meets
the Great Composers - Volume 1 - Includes information and games for 8 well-known composers.
Pianomouse
- Music Theory FUNdamentals - Offers 16 lessons and 16 games introducing basic musical concepts.
Pitch Challenger - A unique program to improve pitch
matching skills.
Rhythm Divide - Compose computer music by
colliding notes together.
Ricochet - Follow the leader - quickly! Develops better piano and ear training skills.
Smack-A-Note - Learn staff note reading, solfege, and piano key names.
Symbol Simon - Identify music symbols and match with definitions.
Super
Ear Challenger - Aural-visual game to increase tonal memory of a series of pitches.
Rhythm
Rhythm is a very crucial element in music education and the programs
in this section offer excellent "hands-on" learning drills and
rhythmic dictation lessons for the musician.
Challenge
Musicus - Gain understanding of relative lengths of notes, rests, ties.
Music Flash
Cards - Important music material in a drill-and-practice format.
Musicus - Action music game - maneuver blocks of rhythm in specific meters.
Rhythm Divide - Compose computer music by
colliding notes together.
Rhythm Performance
Test Revised - A computer-based assessment tool to judge rhythm accuracy and performance of steady beat and
rhythm patterns by children. This is a standardized test with test manual and norms with comparisons to grade
group scores.
Tap It - Rhythm skills program teaching beat and tempo through rhythms and tapping drills.
Tap It II - Tap It II offers more difficult rhythm patterns, including syncopation, eigth and sixteenth note values.
Tap It III - Tap It III is the most advanced in this series, offering 5/8, 7/8, and 10/8 meters.
Tap It Rhythm Creator - Create your own rhythm exercises
and drills.
Tap It Rhythm Player - Download the companion to Tap It
Rhythm Creator and some sample lessons.
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