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- The Music Tutor - version 1.5 by Carner Enterprises.
- May 1996
-
- About the Music Tutor....
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- The Music Tutor is a windows program designed to present important
- fundamentals of music theory. Learning the lines and spaces of the
- grand staff, the sharp key signatures, the flat key signatures and an
- overview of minor scales are presented in four lessons in the Pitch and
- Key Signatures Edition. An overview of the rhythmic value of notes and
- the time signatures is presented in two lessons in the Notes and Time
- Edition of the Music Tutor. Each lesson has instructions and periodic
- questions about the ideas being discussed.
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- Each lesson is accompanied by a practice session. These 'practice
- sessions' may be used at any time like computer flash cards. If you are
- a beginning music student, you may find the practice sessions useful in
- reviewing for your lessons. They should also be helpful in memorizing
- basics needed by all musicians such as recognizing key signatures.
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- Who is the Music Tutor for....
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- The Music Tutor is suited for adults or children with the assistance of
- an adult who are in the early phases of musical training. The Music Tutor
- may be used by anyone wishing to review their musical skills, however,
- allowing for differences in pace, anyone in the first year of lessons would
- probably benefit from the material presented.
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- The unregistered version of the Music Tutor offers the introduction and
- the first lesson and practice session of the Pitches and Key Signatures
- edition without charge. You may freely distribute the unregistered version.
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- If you wish to register the Music Tutor to receive both the Pitches and Key
- Signatures and Notes and Time editions, instructions and a registration
- form are provided under the Help Menu.
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- Technical Notes...
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- The Music Tutor should be run in VGA mode. Modes above 640 by 480 may make
- image controls on the screen used for drag and drop operations inaccurate.
- Windows 95 does prevent this problem on the machines that I have
- tested the program on, but please be aware of the potential for
- the inaccuracies at higher resolutions for the first lesson.
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- You must have the Visual Basic runtime DLL - VBRUN300.DLL on
- your machine to run the Music Tutor. It has not been included in this
- zip file because it is genrally available on any bulletin board or
- on-line service. THREED.VBX has been included in the zip file.
- Place VBRUN300.DLL and THREED.VBX in your windows/system directory.
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- Copy all the other files into a subdirectory that you create - for
- example: C:\MTUTOR.
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- You may simply run the mtutor.exe or create
- a program item in program manager for the Music Tutor.
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- The files needed to run the unregistered version of the application are:
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- mtutor.exe
- intro.dat
- les1.dat
- prac1.dat
- mtutor1.hlp
- threed.vbx
- vbrun300.dll
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- Thanks for your interest in the Music Tutor!