Well, Not out of pure insanity — I was researching the penny whistle (An English instrument used in early American anthems and modern Celtic music; it's more commonly called the tin whistle), which, in Wikipedia, linked to the Solfege (FYI, The names of the notes are really Ut, Re, Mi, So, Fa, Ti, and Do — notes and syllables from a catholic hymn). On the Solfege page, there was a link to GNU Solfege, So I downloaded and installed it.
GNU Solfege is quite an impressive program. It does a number of things, like teaching you basic music theory, training you to recognise harmonies and intervals, among other things. From the site, this is it's features:
- Recognise melodic and harmonic intervals
- Compare interval sizes
- Sing the intervals the computer asks for
- Identify chords
- Sing chords
- Scales
- Dictation
- Remembering rhythmic patterns
I'd write more, but I am too busy messing with the genius LightStep WM.
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