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Morton Subotnick's Playing Music

Win/Mac CD-ROM

$29.99   


Rated E for Everyone

Create your own musical editions, enjoy them from the audience or go on stage and play them yourself! Play fun games and experience how real musicians make music expressive. Including over 20 musical scores by 11 of the world’s most famous composers, 9 videos, interactive animation, games, glossary and much, much more!

Overview

Playing Music empowers the child to explore the expressive elements of the musical experience. These expressive qualities are at the very highest level of the performance experience.

Think for a moment about the symphony orchestra. The conductor doesn't play a single note. The conductor leads the orchestral musicians through subtle changes of tempo and loudness. Hesitating for a moment here and rushing ahead there. Soloists and chamber groups, like string quartets, do the same. This expressive skill has always come after years of training, and probably always will. But, just as a child can build a play castle with blocks without having gone through the training of an architect, this CD-ROM allows children to play with expression in music and experience some of the joys and surprises these elements can bring.

Including over 20 musical scores by 11 of the world’s most famous composers, 9 videos, interactive animation, games, glossary and much, much more!

Ages 8 and up.

Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. The work that brought Subotnick celebrity was Silver Apples of the Moon (1966-67). It was commissioned by Nonesuch Records, marking the first time an original large-scale composition had been created specifically for the disc medium. His distinguished career has included works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, theatre, multimedia productions, music software and website. Subotnick's academic career includes teaching positions at Mills College, New York University, Yale University and The California Institute of Arts, of which he was a founding member. Since 1998 he has developed a series of Children's educational music software programs: Making Music, Making More Music, Hearing Music and Playing Music.

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Features


Ally Performs Beethoven
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Concert Hall
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Expression Room
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Make Music Expressive!

Playing Music is more family fun for music lovers of all ages! Visit a virtual concert hall or the games area. In the Music Cinema, you join a concert pianist performing great piano music and participate in master classes on musical interpretation. In the Expression Room you create original performance editions of piano music by famous composers. Finally, in the Auditorium you can be an audience member and choose between three animated characters who perform and interpret your musical editions. Or, you can enter through the stage door where, by tapping on any computer key, you perform your edition on the concert hall stage.

  • 3 performing cartoon characters interpret your editions!
  • Use 15 Tools to edit and even copyright your masterpiece in the Expression Room
  • Join Concert pianist Frederic Chu as he performs!

Educational Games

  • Listen! Listen to several musical performances and find two the same. Become aware of the subtleties of musical expression.
  • Look! Watch visual kinetics and compare what you see to what you hear. Hear and feel the power of musical expession.
  • Look and Listen! Listen to a performance and choose the correct musical notation. A first step to musical literacy!
  • Make It So! Listen to the music while reading the score. Then choose which musical expression marks are missing.
  • What's It Mean? is a fun game to reinforce concepts set forth in the glossary of musical expressions and symbols.

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Requirements

System Requirements

Windows:
Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP/Vista
233 MHz Intel Pentium class processor (or better)
CD-ROM drive, sound card, 256+ color display
speakers or headphones
128 MB of free RAM 		Macintosh:
Mac OS 8+ or Mac OS X
CD-ROM drive, 256+ color display
speakers or headphones
128 MB of free RAM

Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.

Academic Lab Packs

Educator Lab Packs

Playing Music is also available in discounted multi-station lab packs and site licenses for schools. For more information, please contact the eMedia Educational Sales Department.

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