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<h2>2012-02-02</h2>
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<h1>GNU Solfege</h1>
<p>
GNU Solfege is an ear training program written to help you train
intervals, chords, scales and rhythms. It is
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
and part of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU Project</a>. The program
is indented to help music students with their ear training.
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Some of the existing exercises:
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<li>Recognise melodic and harmonic intervals</li>
<li>Compare interval sizes</li>
<li>Sing the intervals the computer asks for</li>
<li>Identify chords</li>
<li>Sing chords</li>
<li>Sing tone from chords: root, third, fifth, etc</li>
<li>Scales</li>
<li>Dictation</li>
<li>Rhythm dictation</li>
<li>Remembering rhythmic patterns</li>
<li>Theory: name intervals and scales</li>
<li>Cadences</li>
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<p>If this is not enough for you, Solfege is written to make it easy to extend or modify the existing exercises, or write completely new ones. Each chord in the chord exercises are defined similar to this:</p>
<pre> question { name=_i("chord|m7") chord("c' es' g' bes'") }</pre>
<p>More details are found in <a href="http://docs.solfege.org">the GNU Solfege user manual</a>.<p/>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Carl Yaffe on June 8, 2011, 5:41 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Cadenses???</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on June 8, 2011, 5:59 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Yes, there is _one_ exercise, but we need more.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on June 9, 2011, 11:35 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Ok, someone whispered me that you probably wondered about the spelling. Fixed now:-)</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Juan Cho on June 13, 2011, 3:59 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hi. Are there melodic dictation exercises in solfege? Exercises where I choose one or more keys, and then have solfege generate a short melody which I then have to playback?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on June 14, 2011, 2:42 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>We don't have dictation exercises where the programs generates the music. Someone have to enter real music into the exercises (lesson files). But generated dictation is possible to add, only I have thought that exercises written by a music teacher would be much better than a bad music generated by software.</p>
<p>But since no-one yet writes the lesson files we need, adding dictation of generated music sounds like a good idea. I have filed this as bug #233 (http://bugs.solfege.org/233)</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by suso on June 20, 2011, 11:24 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>what is the comment system you use, please?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by tom on June 21, 2011, 2:11 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>The comments system included with Django:<br />https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/comments/</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Andreas on July 12, 2011, 10:52 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hey there, first of thanks for this program it is great! For me as a hobby musician it offers absolutely everything I need, thank you!</p>
<p>Hey I got a question, could I help with adding dictation of generated music in some way? I study computational linguistics and have basic programming experience in Python and Java (up to basic knowledge about OOP). If I can help in some way please let me know. </p>
<p>Thanks for your work!</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on July 13, 2011, 3:11 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Andreas, help writing functions to generate music would be really nice. Let's discuss this on the mailing list, solfege-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by B. Flat on July 17, 2011, 9:37 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Guys, one of the best things you could do, is writing a wrapper for 'Rockbox'.</p>
<p>http://www.rockbox.org/</p>
<p>Imagine Solfege on your mp3-player or mobile!! I made the suggestion also to the Rockbox guys ;-). Get together! </p>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by littlemathteacher on July 25, 2011, 12:50 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>You/we should establish a database for self-written exercises. There is a lack of more interesting chord progressions. And the examples of cadences are bad. Never ever e. g. does a deceptive cadence sound thus bad and inconvincing. One should take individual real life examples from the harmony textbook. Even better would be a midi->exerciseformat transformer. </p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Joe H on July 26, 2011, 3:55 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>I wish the Rhythm exercise could be configured so that instead of it just generating random rhythms using "clicks", it could be configured so that rhythms are played using random pitches (e.g.- from a scale that is selected by the user). Essentially a simple random generated melody is played with the scales and rhythms set by the user. The user then decides what rhythms were played in the melody. Any way that feature could be incorporated into future Solfege releases?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by ALEX on Aug. 23, 2011, 6:56 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>hello, i would like to know if Solfege is already available for the Android platform? thank you.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on Aug. 24, 2011, 10:01 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>No, there is no andoid port available. It is not that easy to do, since Solfege is written in Python using Gtk+.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by eyal on Aug. 28, 2011, 12:07 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>what is a mma that requierd in the exercises and how do i get it?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by JAlmer on Aug. 28, 2011, 2:07 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Great Work and many Thx for this programm.<br />I used this programme together with http://de.appbrain.com/app/interval-recognition/uk.co.marchantpeter.intervalrecognition on my Android and there evolved 3 items for improvement:</p>
<p>Is it possible to include a listen mode, <br />e.g. you can listen to the different intervalls by clicking on the buttons?</p>
<p>Is it possible to include first lines of songs for the intervall exercise, like Stars Wars for 5th?</p>
<p>Is it possible to use another sound for the csound intonation-exercises?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Chris on Sept. 2, 2011, 10:51 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Is GNU Solfege going to be available as an app for any or all cellular devices?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on Sept. 2, 2011, 11:44 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>There are no plans for a port to iOS or android at the moment. It is a lot of work, and my time is limited. But others are welcome to port Solfege if they want.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Natalia on Sept. 11, 2011, 4:27 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Excelent software!!<br />I play saxophone, could you include into you instruments, its would be greats?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Low Fat Meals on Sept. 17, 2011, 5:03 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hey, I can’t view your site properly within Opera, I actually hope you look into fixing this.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Pally on Sept. 22, 2011, 8:07 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Is there a way to have selectable keys for the Solfa syllables exercise (or would it be hard to implement)? For example, the basic 7 syllable exercise is in C Major, but I would love to be able to set D Major or G Major, since those are particularly relevant to the Chinese instrument I'm presently studying. The random-key option is interesting, but beyond my level for now.<br />Thanks for all your hard work. Your software has been a huge help and a joy to use over the years. </p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by KFritz on Oct. 13, 2011, 7:27 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Linux newbie here. I installed GNUS fr/ the Ubuntu Software Center. What appears on my screen does not look like what's illustrated in the Manual. It tells me something about a MIDI file. I installed Timidity, which is nearly incomprehensible to a non-geek. </p>
<p>That aside, does GNUS work in a 64 bit computer? </p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on Oct. 21, 2011, 9:43 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>KFritz, for support I suggest you email solfege-devel@lists.sf.net<br />Attach a screenshot if you can, or a least give us the exact error message.</p>
<p>Timidity can be installed from the software center, and yes, Solfege works on 64 bit systems.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by markfullerdillon on Oct. 26, 2011, 7:23 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Is there a way to slow down the tempi of the rhythm dictation exercises? As they stand right now, they're much too fast for a beginner like me.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Graterol Ivor W. on Oct. 28, 2011, 2:37 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Excelente Software, lo puse en práctica y es genial</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on Oct. 30, 2011, 6:20 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Mark, there is no way to change the speed of those exercises now. But I see we need it, so it will be added eventually.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by lion on Nov. 13, 2011, 10:35 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hello,</p>
<p>I used my own lessons files (about cadence progressions ) ,unfortunately this kind of scripts don't work now with the last version of gnu solfege (and surly before ) .Is it possible to make a "how to" for people who have like me the same problem , and aren't geeks ? Yes ,I think that people usually ask questions like that ,but I don't find anything for me in the user manual .</p>
<p>Thanks</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on Nov. 14, 2011, 12:06 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Lion, can you send me the lesson file that causes you problems, and describe what goes wrong? Email it to tca@gnu.org. If so, I'll update it for the latest version of Solfege, and see what I can do to improve the docs or make Solfege handle the old files.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Trainer on Nov. 23, 2011, 4:45 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Great! thanks for the share! <br />Hellen</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by best elliptical machine on Nov. 28, 2011, 1:19 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>I suggest adding a facebook like button for the blog! <br />Helen</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tim on Nov. 29, 2011, 12:15 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>I have a lesson program that I have created in an open office (calc) spreadsheet. I am trying to hyperlink to the solfege program from within the spreadsheet.</p>
<p>Currently the hyperlink does nothing. The link is pointed to the desktop icon. Is there a way to make it work? Or, another file that I should point to?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Pedro J. Ponce de León on Dec. 2, 2011, 2:08 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Great piece of music software! Hours of fun! </p>
<p>What about a 'blind' mode? Like that you could select an exercise, then close your eyes, and run thru the new-repeat-guess cycle by using some 'fixed' keyboard key bindings. Some keys grouped together so they fit under your hand (like the cursor keys or the keypad). I found I concentrate much more on the music with closed eyes, when I don't need to look for the right button on the screen.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the good job!</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by radam on Dec. 10, 2011, 8:37 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Finding such a program was hard. But here it is. <br />And it's PERFECT. I was looking for something like this for ages. <br />The internet is filled with lies and bullshit, nowadays. <br />But it does what I want and even more. Thanks. </p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Mark on Dec. 19, 2011, 1:17 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Unless my ears are fooling me (not impossible), there seems to be a bug in the 3.20.4 "Practise" section devoted to fourths and fifths: fifths are misidentified as fourths, and vice versa.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on Dec. 19, 2011, 8:29 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Mark, I checked the harmonic and melodic interval exercises of Solfege 3.20.4, and they are all correct. Are you running the program in English or translated to another language? Which? It could be a translator bug.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Mark on Dec. 20, 2011, 11:34 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hello, Tom! I'm running the program in English, on Windows XP... and the P4s are definitely being labelled as P5s... not consistenly, but frequently enough to suggest that something's wrong. It's not my ears: I've also tried other software (and a good old-fashioned piano), and I've had no similar problem there. Any advice?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Nick on Jan. 1, 2012, 4:21 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>This is really awesome! :D</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by whatever on Jan. 20, 2012, 10:58 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>I've made a wikipedia article for the software, feel free to improve it and translate it.</p>
<p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Solfege</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by roopzelebluby on Jan. 25, 2012, 4:52 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hurrah! In the end I got a website from where I can genuinely take valuable information regarding my study and knowledge.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Sylvain on Jan. 25, 2012, 1:16 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hello Tom,</p>
<p>I've made a french draft wikipedia article for the software, from the english page (thanks to "whatever").<br />Feel free to improve it and translate it.</p>
<p>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Solfege</p>
<p>Great Work and many Thx for this program.<br /></p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Umut on Feb. 17, 2012, 8:28 a.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Please please please make an Ipad version!</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on March 1, 2012, 5:53 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Sponsor med (tca) with a mac and an ipad, and I'll explore the possibilities.</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Gerard on March 2, 2012, 12:33 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Hello, <br />Is it possible to make in GNU-solfege a series of atonal chords or pitch class sets for training the recognition and identification of those chords ?</p>
<p></p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by Tom Cato on March 2, 2012, 5:21 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>Yes, Gerard. This can probably be done just by creating lesson files. This is some quite easy to understand text files. http://docs.solfege.org/3.21/C/extending-solfege.html</p>
<p>I can write some exercises if you email a little more details to the mailing list, solfege-devel@lists.sf.net</p>
<p>* Describe how the chords chould be created. Can we find some rules a computer program can use to generate the chords, or should the chords be selected by the one writing the exercise.</p>
<p>* How should the user answer? Clicking a button with a name or description? Clicking on the correct chord on a staff line with multiple chords to select from? Enter the chord, tone by tone on a staff?</p></div>
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<div class="comment-posted-by">Posted by John on March 2, 2012, 6:10 p.m.</div>
<div class="comment-content"><p>This looks to be a great thing.<br />Would it possible for users to share the lessons they develop on this site?</p></div>
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