The installation file is a compressed ZIP file of 47 Mb, named DemoDiscovery.zip. Approximate download times are::
| Broadband -ADSL2 etc | Broadband, ADSL | ISDN at 128 kbps | Dial-up 56 kbps |
| 6 minutes | 13 minutes | 50 minutes | 1 hour, 40 minutes |
Download Musical Discovery Free Demo from this site Read and print the Installation instructions
If you wish, you may download the free Musical Discovery Demo program from Download.com, instead of this site, by clicking the following link.
The demo version of Musical Discovery contains many of the fully
interactive topic pages from the Learning Guide, and a substantial collection of
music for listening. In addition, the musical staff screen is fully functional,
permitting notes to be written with the mouse, and then played back instantly.
Scores with multiple tracks can be created, for example, a string trio employing
a violin staff, a viola staff and a cello staff.
In addition, it contains a vast amount of useful information about the theory of music, and also about musicology, such as:-
- Biographies of the 5 of the greatest composers, with lists of music by them for instant listening. (The full version has 81)
- Pictures and descriptions of 12 of the major orchestral instruments, with instant listening. (The full version has 128, one for each MIDI instrument in the GS Midi standard)
- The full set of 10 main musical styles/periods, with instant listening to music in each style.
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