These make use of new features in Practica Musica 4.2, which is available now as a free download to owners of any previous version of Practica Musica 4. The new activities are Atonal Dictation, which uses randomly composed atonal series for advanced melody dictation, Pitch Errors, a fun exercise in correcting pitch errors in melodies generated by the program, and Lines and Spaces, a beginning exercise in pitch reading. Instructors with new ideas for activities are invited to send their requests to us by email, or to use our site to post their own activities on the Activities bulletin board. We will check the activity before posting it and suggest technical changes if needed. The number of activities in the program has been expanded from 16 in version 3 to 24 in version 4, and greater activity customization is featured.
Users have precise control over which elements appear in each level of an activity.
This allows teachers or home users to focus on troubling elements, such as hearing the difference between a dominant 7th chord and a diminished 7th chord. Practica Musica 4 features enhanced MIDI support through Apple's QuickTime software. Macintosh users who require MIDI can now choose from OMS, FreeMIDI, and MidiManager. Notes and other symbols can also be dragged left and right, and notes and rests can even be dragged vertically as well, making editing more intuitive as well as quick. For a closer look at how to use the new features, see Songworks' Change History , or download the update now .