Music Technology Sessions For General Music Teachers
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Loading extra MIDI files to the computer (click on 'File', 'Open' and open the files from your hard drive, or floppy disk 'A')Starting the program Click on 'Start', 'Programs', and 'Music Time Deluxe'MIDI setup (toolbar)Menus / Palettes - Notes, Text, Clefs, OthersToolbarsOpening filesKey SignTime Sign |
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Tempo changes
Adding / deleting measures
Using note palette to (step) enter notes
Using real-time playing to enter notes - Transcription setup, metronome, dotted notes
QWERTY keyboard (Using the letters Q,W,E,R,T,Y on the computer to input notation.)
Voices (1-8 voices for adding choral text/verses or more than one type of rhythm on a staff.)
Staff sheet
- Voice Name (type in the name of the voice or instrument)
- Program (instrument) name
- Select channel (1-16, channel 10 is for percussion)
- Select instrument (1-128)
- Solo / Mute individual parts
- Sheet order (change the score order of the instruments)
- Key (leaves the notes as written, but plays in a different key)
- Volume (1-127 level)
Playing files (press the spacebar -or- green arrow on the screen)
Measure numbers (M + # takes you to a certain measure) Ex. m + 12 and 'ok' takes you to measure 12 in the music.
Dragging / moving notes / staves (click on the note head to move it up or down; single click a staff to the left of the staff to select a staff)
Accidentals (on the computer 's'=sharp, 'n'=natural, 'f '=flat
Selecting notes (highlight the notes with the mouse - click and drag)
Note duration / pitch/ velocity (change the length, pitch, dynamics of notes)
Copy / Paste / Erase (select the notes, then press edit and copy, paste or delete notes)
Select / Insert / Copy / Delete staves and measures
Ties (select the notes to be tied, then press 'Control' + 'T'.)
Aligning playback, spacing
Changing bar lines
Adding lyrics, text (Select 'Windows', 'Palette', 'Graphics' and 'L' or 'T')
Saving songs (Select 'File', then 'Save' or 'Save As')
Extracting parts (Double-click the staff to be extracted, then click 'File' and 'Extract part'. This will copy the staff to a new file with just this staff displayed. This is great for printing individual parts.)
Printing (Select 'File' and 'Score settings'. Set the score to print to your printer's margins. Then press 'Print'.)
Upon learning how to complete the topics listed above, the teacher or student should be able to complete most of the compositions created at the elementary/middle school level. Some Music Time Shortcuts: Control + O pressed at the same time = Open a file
Control + C = Copy
Control + V = Paste
Control + A = Select all
Control + S = Save a composition
Control + T = Tied notes
Control + P = Print composition
M + (measure number) = Go to a specific measure
A = arrow (stops recording, changes cursor back to an arrow)
E = erase (click individual note heads to erase each note)Press the following numbers to enable these rhythms:
- 1 = whole note
- 2 = half note
- 3 = quarter note
- 4 = eighth note
- Note plus 'D' adds a dot to the note (half note + D = dotted half note)
- R = rest (changes notes being written to a rest, press 'R' again to change back to writing notes)
These are just a few of the many shortcuts to help you in Music Time Deluxe.
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