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Listen™ is a music ear training program for students and individuals wishing to strengthen their perception of melodic and harmonic material, featur
ing a wide variety of matching and multiple choice exercises. Listen is used by thousands of music students in universities, high schools, with private teachers and at home.
Listen 2.5.3 has just been released, now including support for the OMS MIDI driver. Registered users can get the update for $20. (USD). Full version: $99. Order Form.
Exercises include: single notes, melody, growing melody, intervals, triads, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords, random atonal chords, interval identification, chord type identification, and inversion identification. Users work at their own pace, choosing materials such as keys, scale types, range, pace, chord sets, and many other options.
Exercises
Most exercises in Listen are matching. The user is presented with a melody, interval or chord and must match it by playing on the Piano, Guitar, or MIDI keyboard. There are also several multiple-choice exercises where the user answers by clicking the button that identifies what they heard.
Melodies are randomly generated using the selected Pitch Set, Key, Scale, Range, Melody Length, and Pace. Chords are randomly presented from those currently included in the chord set. There are seventeen types of exercises and with the flexible materials system, new examples can be automatically generated for ages 12 through adult. Even professional musicians are challenged by the higher levels.
Materials and Levels of Difficulty
Users can change the level of difficulty by changing the key, scale or mode, melody or interval range, chord sets, chord inversion sets, chord arpeggiation, and pace. There are 5 preset levels of difficulty, and users can also customize Listen with their own settings.
Feedback
Listen provides instant graphic feedback on the progress through the current exercise. A simple bar chart tracks how many right and wrong answers. Small question mark icons appear for each note of a given example. As you play your answer, you get feedback on whether the notes were too high, too low, or correct. You can repeat the current example with the Repeat button, or start a new sequence with the Start button.
Sound and MIDI Features
Listen can play examples on the Macintosh 4-voice synthesizer, or a MIDI synthesizer keyboard or module. The current version of Listen supports the Apple MIDI Manager, the new Sound Manager and includes sampled sounds of piano, electric piano, and guitar. You can even add your own sounds.
Users can answer using the Piano and Guitar windows or a MIDI keyboard, guitar, or wind instrument.
Other Features
A notation window displays answers to melodic and harmonic material.
Other options include a Beat-The-Timer option to engage a time limit for answers, Too-High/Too-Low hints, Melody Length, Floating and Locked Chords and Intervals, Chord Sets, Chord Inversions Sets, and several others. Listen’s comprehensive flexibility make it a powerful tool for beginner through advanced students.
The complete electronic manual includes a table of contents, tutorials on exercises and materials, a window and command reference, glossary, appendix of musical examples, and an index. Hypertext linking and a search command make finding information very easy.
Requirements
- Any Macintosh model from the Mac Classic and later.
- Mac OS 9 or Classic on Mac OS X, Mac OS 8, System 7.
- Power Macintosh and 68K compatible.
- OMS supported but not required.
- 500K RAM.
- 800K Disk space.
- CD-ROM drive or floppy disk drive.
Ordering
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| Listen 2.5.3 (Full version, CD-ROM delivery) $99.00 | |
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| Listen 2.5.3 (Full version, CD-ROM delivery+international shipping) $99.00 + $6 | |
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| Listen 2.5.3 (Full version, e-mail delivery) $79.95 | |
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| Listen 2.5.3 Upgrade: $20.00. (E-mail delivery. Available to registered users.) | |
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| Listen 2.5.3 Upgrade: $40.00. (CD-ROM delivery + $3 US shipping, Available to registered users.) | |
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| Listen 2.5.3 Upgrade: $40.00. (CD-ROM delivery + $6 International shipping, Available to registered users.) | |
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Order online at http://www.imaja.com/listen/ordering.html, or send a check or money order to:
Imaja
2409 Parker St. #2
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
Educational institution purchase orders accepted. Call for pricing on custom site license configurations.
Single User
$99.00
Demo disk
$10.00
Lab Pack pricing
for schools:
5-User Lab Pack $249.00
10-User Lab Pack $498.00
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Educational institution purchase orders accepted. Call for pricing on custom site license configurations.
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Upgrades
The upgrade from 1.0x to 2.5.3 includes several new exercises. This update includes all the latest features and is compatible with OMS, Sound Manager, Mac OS 9 and Classic on Mac OS X, Mac OS 8 , System 7, and Power Macintosh. Listen 2.5.3 uses the new Sound Manager for high quality sampled sounds. Listen includes several sounds, including Piano, Guitar, and Electric Piano. Listen 2.5.3 includes MIDI Manager compatibility and a built-in MIDI Driver. Registered users may update from Listen 1.0x or Listen 2.x to Listen 2.5.3 for $40 (CD-ROM delivery) or $20 (E-mail delivery). If you need to register, please e-mail Imaja for details. Please specify CD-ROM or floppy disk in your order.
Upgrade Features
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Download the Listen Demo
The application demo is compressed with StuffIt and can be uncompressed with StuffIt or StuffIt Expander.
Listen252Demo.sit.hqx BinHex (.hqx) version
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