It remembers each student's last choice of activity folder, which helps students to quickly find their place when returning to the program. These are useful not only for previewing the program, but also for instructional purposes. The clips illustrating use of the notation tools are especially valuable to students writing music. The length of the series grows as you improve, and points are taken off for repeated hearings so that you are encouraged to remember the whole thing the first time. These new activities may be downloaded from Ars Nova's activities page.
Free updates are available for both programs.
You can check this under Win2000 by right-clicking the folders to see their properties. The Music Library now includes a large list of traditional songs and a special collection of Christmas carols and other holiday music. All of these new files can be read with both the Mac and the Win versions of Songworks II, the writing activities in Practica Musica 4, or our free Songworks Player. The files are stuffed and and will require Stuffit Expander, available free from Aladdin Systems . The instructions are in an Acrobat file, which can be read on both Windows and Mac with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader .