TogsTech

Part 9:

Hear the music, see the music, sing the music!

Welcome back to everybody and welcome all the newcomers. This week’s blog is about using the programs Auralia and Musition from the maker himself Peter Lee who talked us through how to use these programs, along with guiding us through a few of the cool functions they hold.

AURALIA

Auralia is a super awesome program that has tons (over 100 in fact!) of different interval and aural training exercise to help provide your students the opportunity to undertake and refine their skills. Many different courses experimenting in jazz music, band music and more to help get students to engage with music and develop their musical analysis skills

MUSITION

Musition is a software that interacts with Auralia which allows you to incorporate music theory aspects into your lessons. It has super epic functions that allow you to create you own syllabus, make tests and worksheets to assign to your students (as well as weighting the questions to balance the marking) and provides you the opportunity to mix and match customised content with the built in content it already provides.

Furthermore, you’re able to spend some time breaking down different types of pre-created syllabi made by the company so that you can be in control of exactly what you provide your students. You can also send out weekly homework tasks for them to complete without you needing to worry about writing out and physically making exams.

TOGSTEACH

This seems like an EXTREMELY useful tool for teaching students basic aural skills so they are prepared for HSC. I personally feel like I would have benefited from using this in my own schooling career. Definitely something to check out if you’re already a teacher, I sure will be when I get out there into the world and start working!