Music

Emma, my daughter, was having difficulty in remembering the names of the notes for her piano lessons. To help her out I wrote a short program for the ZX8l and this soon overcame the difficulty. Working on the computer added a little interest to a dull job. The ZX8l program is given a little further on but the bulk of this chapter is about the development of the original idea. The extra facilities available on the Spectrum made it possible to produce realistic music on the screen, even those excessively curly clefs, but most important of all there was sound. With sound came the possibility of aural work. Music teachers should be allowed to concentrate on the creative side of music and leave the drill and practice of aural testing to the computer.