Test Your Sense of Pitch [NIDCD] Interval Song Examples Chart. Download GNU Solfege. The development of GNU Solfege has moved to Savannah because tca@gnu.org (main author) is stepping down as the only maintainer of the program. Please contact maintainers@gnu.org if you want to take over the job. Download page on Sourceforge.net with all previous versions. GNU also mirrors stable and unstable releases.
Some of you will eventually have some problems. Stable release: Solfege 3.22.2 This is the recommended release for end users. Development release: Solfege 3.23.0 Release notes for the devel branch. GNU Solfege can make use of some external programs for special features. These programs are usually included on your GNU/Linux distribution. Sudo apt-get install timidity mma csound lilypond to install all these programs. Installing timidity on MS Windows Download TiMidity++-2.13.2-cvs20100919.win32.zip and unpack it to C:\.
Create the C:\TiMidity++\soundfonts\ folder. Create the file C:\TiMidity++\timidity.cfg with the following content: Installing MMA on MS Windows User comments. Jazz Science | Practice Ideas From the Woodshed. Ear training is obviously an extremely important pursuit for improvising musicians. I spend a significant portion of my practice time on ear training activities, and try to find ways to incorporate an ear training aspect into all of my practicing. One of the things that makes harmony so complex is that as you add notes, the complexity increasing in a combinatorial way, not an additive way. For example: If you hear an E against a C, it's one piece of information: major 3rd. If you hear an E and a G against a C it's 3 pieces of information: major 3rd between C and E, perfect 5th between C and G, and minor 3rd between E and G.
If you hear an E, G, and B, against a C, it's 6 pieces of information: major 3rd between C and E, perfect 5th between C and G, and minor 3rd between E and G, major 7th between C and B, perfect 5th between E and B, major 3rd between G and B. Et Cetera. I've made a set of audio files (mp3 format) based on an exercise suggested by Rufus Reid. Download file here. PS. Ear Training - Hooktheory.