ECS Music Education Software

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Adventures in Musicland - Four unique music games featuring characters from Alice in Wonderland.

Audio Mirror - Listens to notes in realtime and determines the note sung and how sharp or flat it is.

Aural Skills Trainer - Improve ability to perceive and identify intervals and chords.

Challenge Musicus - Gain understanding of relative lengths of notes, rests, ties.

Clef Notes - Improve students' note identification speed.

Cloud 9 Music - Unstructured exploration of pitch, composition, and rhythm in a fun, aerial-theme environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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 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.

MIDI Jazz Improvisation Volumes I and II - Allows practice with original jazz tunes.

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.

Music Composer Quiz - Quiz program with 100 composer-related questions included.

Music Flash Cards - Important music material in a drill-and-practice format.

Music History Review: Composers - Tests knowledge of composers.

Music Skill Builder - Comprehensive music theory program for beginning through early advanced. Customizable lessons to fit your teaching style and curriculum.

Music Terminology - Improve knowledge of music terminology.

Music Terminology for Bands, Orchestras and Choirs - Fundamental music terminology for Bands, Orchestras and Choirs.

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.

Musicus - Action music game - maneuver blocks of rhythm in specific meters.

Musique - Self-paced exercises for theory instruction.

Note Detective - Graphic tutorial and game series to help develop piano keyboard skills.

Notepad To Finale (eBook and Text) - An electronic workbook written as a step-by-step guide to learn to use the NotePad notation software and Finale notation software formats.

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.

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.

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.

Ricochet - Follow the leader - quickly! Develops better piano and ear training skills.

Smack-A-Note - Learn staff note reading, solfege, and piano key names.

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.

Super Ear Challenger - Aural-visual game to increase tonal memory of a series of pitches.

Symbol Simon - Identify music symbols and match with definitions.

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.

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.

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 Website