What is MusicalEar?

MusicalEar is built on real music, over 200 compositions made especially for MusicalEar, with a specific pedagogic idea in mind. You can create your on development path through the vast material in MusicalEar. Therefore, no matter if you are traditionally schooled or have always played by ear, and feel a need for ear training and putting into words what you hear and do - MusicalEar is for you. You can start training by entering the Songs section and picking any of the genres of pop/rock, jazz, latin, song, folk music and classical music.

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Or you decide to enter the material via Melody/Interval/Fourth, or Rhytm/Straightfeel/Triplets, or Harmony/Chord progressions, cadence/Primary and Secondary Triads.

Or you might want to enter the material through Exercises to target Choir Singing Exercises, or Sight Reading, or Chord Progressions? Or basic Tonailty Exercises? The possibilities are vast and you can develop your ear in many different ways with MusicalEar and design your own develoment path through the material, depending on your own needs and wants.

See short videos on how MusicalEar works here.

The main elements in MusicalEar revolve around the notation of melody, rhythm and harmony. But this tool is more than that: You get general music theory, musical harmony and arranging, deepened music listening, style and genre knowledge, easier analysing exercises and composing.

MusicalEar also contains examples of further literature studies as well as online references.

When working with MusicalEar you come across a great number of music terms and concepts of music theory as well as different ways of working with voice leading and arranging. Here the built-in dictionary, Theory & Terms, comes in handy.

Further more you find in MusicalEar, grouped for different levels, a large number of detached ear training exercises in melody, rhythm and harmony without any direct connection to a particular composition.

All the music in MusicalEar is composed by Björn Roslund and Carl-Axel Andersson, lecturers of Music Theory at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden.

You can use MusicalEar in Universal Mode (pdf based), Sibelius Mode or Finale Mode.

In Finale Mode, you need the music notation software Finale to play and notate the music in MusicalEar.

In Sibelius Mode, you need the music notation software Sibelius to play and notate the music in MusicalEar.

You can either use their free demo version or, to get access to all Finale and Sibelius' features, you get the Finbale 2012 or Sibelius 6 or 7.

To download Finale and/or find out more about them: check out www.finalemusic.com.

To download Sibelius and/or find out more about them: check out www.sibelius.com.