smarten your ears
GNU Solfege
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Contribute
There are several ways you can contribute.
- Spread the word about GNU Solfege
- Tell us how to improve the program: send us bugs, feature requests, ideas for improvement.
- Translate Solfege to your native language.
- Improve the Solfege documentation.'
- Create new exercise material.
- Extend the music theory section in Solfege.
- Work on a Gstreamer MIDI plugin.
- Work on a Cairo based GTK canvas.
(Maybe you found this page while searching for information about solfege, the ear training technique. If so, please read on. You might find this page interesting too.)
GNU Solfege is a computer program written to help you practice ear training.It can be useful when practicing the simple and mechanical exercises. These are the exercises written so far:
- Recognise melodic and harmonic intervals
- Compare interval sizes
- Sing the intervals the computer asks for
- Identify chords
- Sing chords
- Scales
- Dictation
- Remembering rhythmic patterns
Contact
You can reach the developer on the solfege-devel mailing list, and sometimes on irc, #solfege on irc.freenode.org.
The program is portable. Versions of Solfege has ran on recent releases of Debian, Redhat, Mandrake, SuSE, FreeBSD 4.2, MS Windows 95/98/2000/XP and MacOSX. It should be easy to make the program run on any unix like operating system, for example Solaris or BeOS, if you have gtk+, python and pygtk installed. The old MacOS will not work because gtk+ and pygtk is not ported to that OS.
I will cooperate as much a possible if people want to port Solfege to new operating systems. The mailing lists? and the wiki are resources you can use if you have problems running or installing Solfege on your operating system.
GNU Solfege is free software, and is a part of the GNU Project.