Music Appreciation Instruments Composers Software PCMAC

Tristan Music Appreciation Young Scholars: The Orchestral Instruments, for PC Windows XP/Vista/7 and Windows MAC OS X

A Fun and Informative Computer Program for Young People on the Musical Instruments of the Orchestral and their use in Music through History by the Great Composers. Watch the Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au5Mox-ROOo

Young students (8 to 16 year-olds) can explore numerous audio-video clips, clear explanatory text, illustrations, and definitions of musical terms of:

• nearly 300 audio-video clips of instruments and famous music examples with 100's of pictures and 100's of pages of text
• Strings: violin, viola, cello, double-bass
• Woodwinds: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon
• Brass: horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba
• Percussion: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, tam tam.

See how the instruments were used in the classical music repertoire from ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque Era, The Classical Period, and the Romantic and 20^th-century eras by some of the great composers through history such as Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Purcell, J.S. Bach, George Fredric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, Sergey Prokofiev and many others.

     * important musical ideas and vocabulary.

     * excerpts of famous musical works.

     * famed composers of classical music.

     * the history of the instruments.

     * musical notation scrolling under the video

Also includes a fun music history quiz/game at the end of the program!

Computer System Requirements for MAC & PC:

OS X or Windows (XP / Vista/ 7)

DVD-ROM Reader

QuickTime 4.0 or higher

Resolution: 1024 X 768 or higher

Sound capability

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