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Score: Cornelius Composer
Cornelius Composer is an animated music editor that allows music notes to come to life. It offers features such as composing, importing, showing, and reproducing music with animated and colorful notes. The editor also includes accessibility features for color-blind beginners and allows users to customize the color scale to match their instrument sets in the classroom.
Music teachers can use Cornelius Composer to introduce sheet music and reproduce arrangements with solfège playback, providing a unique sight-reading experience. Users can import their work from other professional software and continue editing with other programs if desired. The edited compositions can be exported and shared with students, who can access them on their tablets, smartphones, or desktop PCs.
Cornelius Composer is designed to be a simple sheet music editor with powerful features that can be used by anyone, anywhere. Its features include matching the curriculum and expectations of music educators, creating and reproducing arrangements in the classroom, and allowing students to play along. The editor is user-friendly and supports touchscreens, smart- and interactive boards, making it suitable for large screens.
Additional features include the solfège feedback for helping students read sheet music, animating music notes to engage younger children, customizing the color of each note to match classroom instruments, and changing the music staff between melodic and rhythmic views. Students can compose and modify notes during playback to develop their listening skills. The editor also offers accessibility options for colorblindness.
Other features include multiple staves for piano, exercises, and small school band arrangements, importing scores from other software or online content, and exporting scores to share with students. Cornelius Composer is part of the World of Music App Suite, which includes other elementary music educational apps.
The premium version of Cornelius Composer allows users to import, export, and save unlimited scores. A free trial version is available for users to test before making a purchase. The pricing is fair and transparent, and there is a free "for schools" version available for music teachers.
The team behind Cornelius Composer is a young and enthusiastic group that creates meaningful music apps and games for children and music teachers. Their goal is to introduce music, reading, and instrument performance in a fun and game-based way. The World of Music App Suite has gained recognition at Microsoft Educational Forums for its innovative educational approach.