Musical Discovery is an enjoyable computer program for music students, music teachers, and enthusiastic music lovers.

• Musical Discovery teaches the theory of music, with special reference to the music theory exams set by AMEB (Australia), ABRSM (UK) and Trinity School of Music (UK). Most screens feature demonstrations, with sound, and musical notation, alongside the theory panels. There are practice screens for  pitch, intervals, chords, cadences, rhythms, tune and instrument recognition.

• Musical Discovery contains the themes of many famous symphonies, concertos, and other baroque, classical and romantic works by the famous composers, for listening. Most of the better-known themes are included. It also has a comprehensive selection of traditional music, folk songs, nursery rhymes, and some popular songs and jazz tunes. There is a "Theme search" facility, which allows you to type in a theme on the musical staff (it doesn't matter in which key), and run a database search. Any tune found starting with the same first 10 notes will be opened up and played.

• Musical Discovery's Composing Tools allow you to create fragments of tunes in many different ways, and assemble them into a finished composition using drag and drop techniques on the Composing Board. There is also an accompaniment generator, which permits you to type in chords below the staff line (in modern or traditional Roman Numeral formats). Then you select an accompaniments style from a large list, including Alberti Bass, Hymn-style chords, Chopin Nocturne, Tchaikovsky huge piano chords, Beethoven string patterns, and modern dance music rhythms such as tango and samba. Musical Discovery does all the work to create an orchestrated melody.

• The Musicology section has biographies of all the famous composers, with examples of their compositions to listen to; information about  orchestral, world, popular and jazz instruments; details of styles of music from medieval to modern; ensembles of instrumental players; categories of music; and a substantial glossary of musical terms.

Free Demo Version