This analytical package is suitable for individual or class use (either in a lecture-room with computer display projection facilities, or in a computer lab with several copies of the courseware). The material is suitable for inclusion in undergraduate courses on early twentieth-century music, French music, the assimilation of jazz within 'art music', and analytical approaches to modality. A successful pilot scheme was undertaken in Autumn 1995 at Lancaster University in a third-year course on 'Paris in the 1920s'. This Analytical Listening Guide is currently only available for the Macintosh.
The CD Tour Generator enables a user to add text and pictures to a 'card' and then associate that card with a portion of an audio CD. The cards and the portions of the CD must run sequentially. An access mechanism to any named and identified portion of the CD is automatically generated. A facility is also provided for the preparation of an introductory block of cards that does not form part of the CD tour itself. This can be accessed at any time during both the preparation and the operation of the tour.
The CD Tour Generator was written by Michael Pengelly. It is currently available only for the Macintosh.
Using stem and slur notation on two sets of staves, students can analyse a score to show motion within the principal harmonies. A MIDI version of the musical score is provided so that students can listen to the piece provided for analysis.
Students indicate the harmonies by figuring the principal bass-notes. They can then transfer notes from the musical score on to the empty staves and annotate the transferred notes with stem and slur notation. All operations are performed by pointing and clicking with the mouse.
The program itself does not attempt to teach. It does, however, give basic advice if incorrect choices are made, though ambiguities in interpretation are not accounted for. Students may choose to look at the completed example to find their omissions, and then try again.
The recommended mode of use is for students to use the program in pairs or threes so that it provides a focus for discussion. Practice in Stem and Slur Annotation uses Mozart's Piano Sonata, K545, as the piece to be analysed. The program is currently only available for the Macintosh.