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DESCRIPTION
Aquallegro is a great way to improve your musical ability. It contains quizzes on various aspects of music, as well as detailed help files with tips and mnemonics. All of the quizzes are scored while in progress, so the user continuously knows how well they're doing, and it is easy to customize Aquallegro so it works the way you want it to. It also contains Administrative features for teachers, making it an excellent tool in any music program.
Current modules:
Notation: Note Names, Intervals, Solfege, Scales, Beats, Terms
Aural Skills: Intervals, Chords, Solfege, Scales, Tuning, Note Names, Tempos
Keyboard: Notes
Aquallegro is perfect for the comprehensive music student or just for the curious that want to hone their musical skills. With a price of $0, how could one ask for more?
WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.7:
- Aural Skills - Solfege: Modes no longer change between playings, even if 'Keep each question in one key' is unchecked
- Aural Skills - Chords: Fixed a bug which could cause crashes with some inversion choices
- Notation - Intervals: Fixed a bug which could cause accidentals to display incorrectly
- Aural Skills - Solfege: Fixed a bug which could cause correct answers of 'ti' to be marked incorrect if 'allow nondiatonic notes' is checked
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Aquallegro User Reviews (7 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 1 2006 |
RICEBAG As an instructor in music theory, I'd say this program has some quirks. First, there are some weird things within each module: for example, when setting up the key, the solfege module uses bad voice-leading (especially in minor). I realize that's not the point of the exercise, but I can't recommend something to my students if it isn't mutually reinforcing with all the other things we do. Finally, the modules as a group are a bit bizarre: one or two would be great for my aural skills class, one or two for written theory, etc. And the huge range of skill level involved (for example, "identifying notes on the piano" versus "identifying non-diatonic scales") is a bit baffling, and doesn't seem very targetted at any group in particular. Still, well designed and easy to use.
(Version 4.4) | |
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 | Jan 5 2007 |
ANDYVN22 Terribly sorry about the poor voice leading; I'm surprised I didn't notice it. It's fixed now. As for the organization, I agree, it's not targeted at any particular group. I like that it has more advanced topics along with the easy ones; I think it will encourage curious students to explore.
(Version 4.5) | |
 | Jun 3 2006 |
ALLISONBARTONRICE Seems like a nice and useful program for those interested in music. However, I couldn't get it to work on my PowerMac G5 2.0Ghz DP.
(Version 4.0) | |
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 | Jun 3 2006 |
ANDYVN22 Are you sure your PowerMac was running OS X v10.4 or later? If so, please let me know more information so I can attempt to reproduce the bug.
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| Oct 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS It launches and works fine here, on a G3 iBook at 900MHz running OS X 10.3.5. Must be something wrong with your Mac.
(Version 3.1) | |
| Nov 8 2004 |
ANDY VAN NESS It appears that this bug originates from Stuffit Expander somehow "unsetting" the executable bit for Aquallegro. I'm unclear as to how or why this happens (especially since it happens to only a few people), but to fix it, first be sure you're using the latest version of whatever you're decompressing with, and second, if all else fails: 2. Type "cd " (without quotes) 3. Drag Aquallegro onto the Terminal window. 4. Type "/Contents/MacOS/" 6. Type "chmod +x Aquallegro" | |
| Mar 16 2004 |
A MARTIN Sorry I can't spell. I meant "recognized" below.
(Version 3.1) | |
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| Mar 23 2004 |
A MARTIN I can't type either... I meant "recognizing".
(Version 3.1) | |
| Jun 3 2006 |
GAZMAN Well, where I come from (Australia) you actually spelt it right the first time.
(Version 4.0) | |
| Jan 29 2004 |
PA-CHAN I attend a Musicology institute, and I have to say that this program could be very useful for newcomers. It has many nice quiz about: Note Names, Key Signatures, Intervals (which you can hear both harmonically and melodically), Chords and a little quiz for coming piano players...For every exercise you can set many parameters, from basilar clefs and chords to use to more complex matters (like Enharmonic intervals or accidentals)... If you are a newbie and you want to improve your note reading, your hearing and other things as signatures this is a must. Pity that the notes are in only one "format": A B C D E F G.... they could put the choice to select between letter notes and proper notes as DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI..... However I suggest this!
(Version 3.1) | |
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| Jan 29 2004 |
ANDY VAN NESS In the Preferences window, there is in fact a setting to change between the American and European notation styles, as you suggested.
(Version 3.1) | |
| Nov 23 2003 |
I really noticed an improvement in recognising the cords after some practice.
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Nov 14 2003 |
SHELLEY This would be a good program for anyone who wants to hone their music skills. I taught elementary music for 34 years. This would have helped my kids, but I'm not sure they would have found it exciting enough. Being a flute player I found identifying the chords to be challenging for me. I'm sure if I spent time with it I would definitely improve on chord recognition. I'm not sure younger kids would have enough knowledge to be able to set up the quizzes wisely. It's a good, basic program. I like the instant feedback. The chance to hear a chord again after guessing several wrong guesses and then finally finding the right one would be helpful.
(Version 1.0) | |
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