Kapelle Dictation Tutorials
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1. 27 OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL MELODIES 02 SET THE PLAYBACK ees PLAY THE FIRST dots basa caus aiden ded cov cess PEAYA TONIG TRIAD A PLAY THE TONIC PITCHES ae ees oe 5 NOTATE 2 2222222442 SUMMARY OF TUTORIAL 3 TUTORIAL 4 CHORD 4 31 OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL CHORDS 01 e nee eaea eaeoe E Ee e EE E oa a err E E EEEE OEE 31 PLAY THE EXERCISE oe NOTE e re Or a EE a EN NOTATE THE REST OF THE CHORD NOTATE THE REMAINING CHORDS 25 oes ees SUMMARY OF TUTORIAL ea cdeesseexeeeesaer esshoaneheceaceeeeneestns TUTORIAL 5 RHYTHMIC DICTATION 3 OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL RHYTHMS 401 0222422 1201 00000 00000000000000000000000000000 00 0 0 0000 33 SE2. Select Stop How To Change the Playback Volume If the volume is either too loud or too soft you can change it by clicking once the Volume Control which is located on the Windows Taskbar down at the lower right hand portion of your screen If you need to make more adjustments to the volume open the Volume Control Control Panel by double clicking on the Volume Control You will find a control on that panel called Synthesizer Balance or something similar different MIDI drivers have different control panels which you can use to adjust the MIDI synthesizer volume relative to other sound outputs in the system Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 14 of 57 Notate the Exercise You will learn basic notation skills in Kapelle Dictation by notating the first tutorial melody Beethoven s Ode to J oy D Major Notate the First Measure Start by listening to the first measure again Position the cursor in the first measure then play the first measure only Position the Cursor The onscreen cursor controls both time and pitch Time as you have already seen is controlled by the horizontal location of the cursor and you move the cursor by using the right and left arrows or by clicking Pitch is vertical you move the cursor by using the up and down arrows or by clicking although precise positioning can be difficult The first note is F a quarter note Use the up and dow
3. rhythm all rhythm all rhythm all pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch rhythm analysis sop bass pitch rhythm analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch rhythm analysis sop bass pitch rhythm analysis sop bass d Each row the list window of the progress report contains entry The name of the entry is in the leftmost column it matches the name of an exercise you have notated and evaluated The second column gives your grade as a percentage of correct answers out of the total possible points The third column gives the time and date when the evaluation was made The final column Items Evaluated lists the kinds of musical entries that were subject to evaluation This can vary by the exercise depending upon the settings in the Evaluation Options property sheet In some cases you can override those settings but sometimes you can t it depends on the author of the original file Sorting Entries Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 26 of 57 You can sort the entries in your progress report by clicking on the headers for each of the columns clicking on the Name column header will sort by name clicking on the Grade column header will sort by grade and so forth Closing Your Progress Report To close your progress report
4. Filter progress report entries by date directory and or grade Delete progress report entries Print a progress report Export a progress report Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 55 of 57 Tutorial 10 Storing the State of an Exercise Sometimes you might not have enough time to complete your work on particular exercise Being able to store the state of an exercise allows you to stop working on the exercise save its current state of completion and then pick it up again later Storing the Exercise State To store the state of an exercise Select File Save Exercise State A dialog box will ask you to confirm this action After you store the state of an exercise you cannot evaluate it until you have restored that state When you would like to continue to work on the exercise that you have stored Select File Restore Exercise State A dialog box will ask you to confirm this action If you are currently working n unevaluated exercise the exercise will be closed without an evaluation If there is only one saved exercise that exercise will be restored without further prompting However it is possible that you might have saved the state of several exercises If that is the case you will be presented with a dialog box that allows you to choose which exercise to restore Choose Exercise State File The following exercise state files have been found Select one then click OK 03 010398 1120454M 09 010398 1
5. property sheet and disable Pitch evaluation See the previous tutorial if you don t know how to do this Set Rhythmic Evaluation Options Since this is a tutorial let s have Kapelle Dictation treat you a bit more severely on the subject of rhythmic evaluation By default rhythmic evaluation is quite lax only starting times for notes are considered Thus if your notated durations are different from the original yours won t be counted as incorrect It s worth learning how to change rhythmic evaluation options even if doing so will result in the program making it harder for you to get a high score on your work After all you could change the options to give yourself an easier time of it with rhythm Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 38 of 57 To set the rhythmic evaluation options Select File Evaluation Options In the Evaluation Options property sheet click on the Rhythm tab You will see the Rhythm property page Evaluation Options Pitch Rhythm Voices Solo Voices Analysis Level 1 Starting times only Change the value in the Level drop down list to 2 Starting times and durations Under this method of evaluation Kapelle Dictation will consider the total duration of notes as part of the evaluation This does not mean that you have to agree completely with the original notation a pair of tied quarter notes will be considered as the same as a half note for example Leve
6. Dot the First Note To dot this first note Select Note Modify Note Dot Up Keyboard Select Modify Note Dot Up Notate an Eighth Note The next note is an E natural eighth note This is the first time you have entered a note value other than a quarter note First check to see that Auto Entry on the Note Menu is enabled if it is enabled there will be check mark beside it If it is not enabled select it to enable it Then position the cursor over the E natural on the first line of the staff Now Press 4 If Auto Entry is enabled this will result an eighth note being added to the end of the measure like so This is the quickest way to add a note to the measure you have selected the eighth note value and entered the note using just one keyboard command If you disable the Auto Entry command then pressing 4 on the keyboard will select the eighth note as the rhythmic value but will not add the note for that you will have to give the Add Note command explicitly using one of the methods outlined earlier in this tutorial Notate a Half Note Assuming that you have left Auto Entry enabled entering the E natural half note that finishes this measure is done by first making sure that the cursor is still positioned over the E natural the first line of the staff then Keyboard Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 19 of 57 Just as before if you have dis
7. Select Note Modify Note Move Down Press Ctrl Shift Down Arrow Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 22 of 57 Select Modify Note Move Down To move notes by a larger amount either upwards or downwards first select them then Menu Select Note Modify Note Move Keyboard Press 11 Select Modify Note Move This command produces the Move dialog box which you can use to move the note either upwards or downwards by an interval amount plus any extra octave distances you wish r Direction Distance 0 a octaves plus one Unison H Changing the Rhythmic Note Value To change the note value of a note first ensure that Auto Entry has been disabled Changing the note value is a two step process first you have to select a new note value then you have to give the command to change the selected note s value First select a new note value Select a note value from Note Note Value or Note Rest Value Toolbar Click on a note value icon or a rest value icon Press 1 9 for a note value Shift 1 9 for a rest value Having established a new note value select the note or notes you wish to modify then Select Note Modify Note Set Value Press Ctrl U Evaluate Your Notation After you have completed your notated version of this melody you will want to find out how well you did with it Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 23 of 57 To evaluate your wor
8. chord The applied chord is the second chord in the chorale an applied vii7 of iv To notate an applied secondary chord write it precisely the way you normally would follow the chord with a slash and then indicate the target So to analyze the second chord you would write vii7 iv How to Be a Hero About Harmonic Placeholders and Pivot Points You don t have to use the training wheels that harmonic placeholders and pivot points provide You can turn them off and then do the analysis completely unaided by any visual clues However you might be risking an inadvertent error about the pivot points Kapelle Dictation doesn t know how to make allowances for differing opinions on pivot point locations unlike flesh and blood evaluators To turn off harmonic placeholders Select View Show Harmony Placeholders The command is checked if the placeholders are showing and unchecked if they are hidden Repeated selections of this command will show or hide the placeholders To turn off pivot points Select View Show Pivot Points The command checks un checks itself just like Show Harmony Placeholders Short Digression How Harmonic Placeholders Can Help To ponder the need for a harmonic placeholder consider the following situation after listening to notating the outer voices and analyzing this simple exercise Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 51 of 57 There is something wrong you he
9. Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 10 of 57 Docked toolbars A docked toolbar is anchored to one of the edges of the window When Kapelle Dictation first starts up the toolbars are anchored to the top of the main window You may dock any floating toolbar by dragging it by its title bar towards any of the four edges of the window then releasing the mouse button The toolbar will dock itself onto the window edge In this illustration the Tuplets Toolbar is docked directly below the menu bar File Edit View Note Playback 7 In this illustration the Playback Toolbar has been docked along the right hand side of the main window Floating toolbars A floating toolbar is a free floating palette with a close box Float a docked toolbar by positioning the mouse over any portion of the toolbar which is not an icon then dragging the toolbar free When a toolbar has been floated you can resize it by positioning the pointer over any of the edges and dragging the toolbar into a new shape In this illustration the Tuplets Toolbar is free floating a El 7 In this illustration the Note Values Toolbar is free floating and has been resized Menu Bar The menu bar runs along the top of the window and contains all of the program s available commands Many of these commands are also available on a toolbar Many of Kapelle Dictation s command can be given via keyboard shortcuts The keyboard shortcut
10. Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 28 of 57 You will be presented with the Identify Key dialog box from which identify the key of the composition Identify Key OK 64 Major Cancel Minor Select the tonic from the list on the left and the mode by clicking either of the two radio buttons then click OK or press Return NOTE the key you have selected is retained while the document remains in memory so if you wish to repeat the tonic triad you don t have to indicate which chord to play again just select the command Play the Tonic Pitches It can be quite helpful to have a sense of the location of the melody on the staff To that end Kapelle Dictation will play three tonic pitches for you low medium and high in pitch relative to the current clef To play the tonic pitches Select Playback Play Tonic Pitches Press Cntl L Kapelle Dictation doesn t know automatically which key the piece is in that s up to you to determine and so you must tell it which key the piece is in If you re going through this tutorial step by step then you have already chosen a key the previous step playing a tonic triad If you haven t chosen a key yet you will be presented with the Identify Key dialog box see above The tonic pitches are played one after another and displayed onscreen In this illustration the second pitch is being played it s drawn in red Tonic Pitch
11. Note Auto Entry It should be checked afterwards Keyboard Press Ctrl E Add the Note Adding a note means to add a note to the end of the current measure You can use the Add Note command to add the first note Here s how Menu Select Note Add Note Keyboard Keyboard Press 5 If Auto Entry is enabled Context Select Add Note NOTE there are two keyboard commands given above Pressing 5 is possible when you have activated the Auto Entry feature selecting the note value will simultaneously enter a note of that value to the end of the measure After you have entered the first note the cursor will be centered precisely over the note s head Continue Adding Notes Remember that the Add Note command always adds a note to the end of the measure If you wish to insert a note at some point in the measure other than the end use the Insert Note command Therefore you can use the Add Note command to add the remaining three notes of this measure which and A Use the up and down arrow keys to position the cursor vertically then choose the Add Note command to add those notes The measure should look like this when you have finished Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 16 of 57 e Notice that the cursor has jumped to the downbeat of the next measure this is a convenience to allow you to notate continuously throughout a document with the Add Note command You can if you wish disable this feat
12. Playback Key of C Major Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 29 of 57 NOTE that you can change the speed at which the tonic pitches are played as well as the duration of the tonic triad when it is played See the command Tonic Options on the Playback Menu Notate a D sharp Instead of notating directly from the beginning let s begin by notating the second note the measure 50 you can learn how to insert a note before it The second note is a D sharp on the fourth line of the staff Begin by using the Add Note command to place an eighth note D on the fourth line of the staff gt This note needs to be raised lt or sharped this make sure that the cursor is still positioned squarely over the notehead or enclose the notehead in a selection rectangle then Menu Toolbar Keyboard Context Insert a Note Since you have notated the second note rather than the first you will need to insert the first note which is an E natural the half step directly above the D sharp you just notated Position the cursor on the fourth space of the staff Then Select Note Insert Note Keyboard Keyboard Press Shift Enter Select Insert Note There is nothing new to discuss for the rest of this measure or for measure 2 Go ahead and notate them by listening to the measures and writing down what you hear Kapelle Dictation Tut
13. annoying To do this Select Playback Click Track Settings Then uncheck Use click track Click Track Use click track Channel 10 Default Change the Output Program For this tutorial try changing the output sound to something else By default all the exercises up to now have used the sound at program 1 on your sound card To change the output program Select Playback MIDI Settings The MIDI Settings dialog box is displayed MIDI Settings MIDI Output MIDI Input Device Sound Blaster FM Synthesis x Device Creative Labs Sound Blaster 7 Channel 1 Channel T 1 Program 1 MIDI Thru j MIDI Thu Select by name 1 You are primarily concerned with the Program slider the left hand MIDI Output pane You can choose a different program simply by moving this slider but you can also select a new program by name Click on the Select by name button You will see this dialog box Select Program Instrument General MIDI Grand Dulcimer Distortion Guitar Bright Acoustic Drawbar Organ Guitar Harmonics Electric Grand Percussive Organ Acoustic Bass Honky Tonk Rock Organ Electric Bass finger Electric Piano 1 Church Organ Electric Bass pick Electric Piano 2 Reed Organ Fretless Bass Harpsichord Accordion Slap Bass 1 Clavinet Harmonica Slap Bass 2 Celesta Tango ccordion Synth Bass 1 Glocken
14. 121104M 822 Select which exercise you wish to restore by clicking on one of the listed items and then click OK Understanding Stored Exercise Names The stored exercise state is given a three section name Section 1 is the name of the file itself frequently it might be no more than a number as above where 03 is the name of the first file Section 2 is the month day and year on which the state was stored thus 010398 means January 3 1998 The third section is the time in hours minutes seconds and AM PM Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 56 of 57 Thus the third stored state is a file named 22 stored on January 3 1998 at 11 20 58 AM An Exercise 15 Restored Only Once You can restore a saved exercise state only once When you select the Restore exercise command and restore an exercise the disk file is erased However you may Save the state of the exercise again at any point A Auto Entry Auto Entry 14 uae tie click track disabling click track downbeat click track upbeat clipboard CONTEXT D delete shied a EER Gii 21 T 18 evaluate 23 Evaluation Options 33 36 45 exercise restoring the 54 exercise Storing the 54 o
15. AN 55 STORING THE EXERCISE STATES Aeree a Rr e E eas AEE Ea UNDERSTANDING STORED EXERCISE NAMES AN EXERCISE IS RESTORED ONLY Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 6 of 57 Conventions Used in this Manual Menu Commands All menu commands are given in the form Menu Command in which the word to the left of the mark is the name of the menu and the word to the right is the command name Thus Edit Paste would mean the Paste command on the Edit Menu In some instances a command might be in a hierarchical menu menus that open to produce other menus In such situations each individual menu is followed by a vertical line like so Note Modify Note Move Up Commands Most of the commands in Kapelle Dictation are available via toolbars menus and keyboard shortcuts Directions for carrying out an individual command will be given in a multiple row table you may select which technique you wish whether it be from a menu Selection by clicking a toolbar icon or using a keyboard shortcut This multiple row table will look like this Select Menu Command Picture of the icon Keyboard Press Keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl K Select Menu Command from the right mouse button menu Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 7 of 57 What is Kapelle Dictation Kapelle Dictation is an applic
16. KAPELLE DICTATION VERSION 1 0 User Manual Tutorials TABLE OF CONTENTS CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS 0 6 COMMAND Seu AEE AE nett enna 6 COMMANDS 6 PRELIMINARY LOOK 2 8 ONLINE AND CONTEXT SENSITIVE HELP 20 2 00 00 000010 0 8 THE MAIN WINDOW ITS PARTS TOOLBARS MENU BAR TUTORIAL 1 MELODIC DICTATION 4 12 OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL MELODIES HOL oet a E E EEE E E EA EES 12 PEAY THE ENTIRE MELODY cis E E r NE E A E RR 12 PLAY THE FIRST PLAY THE SECOND MEASURE PLAY THE FIRST AND SECOND MEASURES HOW TO CHANGE THE PLAYBACK VOLUME serinin iier o eer e E ERE aai AE TRR 13 NOTATE THE EXERCISE SUMMARY OF TUTORIAL 1 FOR MORE INFORMATION a E E E E E ea RE RE TUTORIAL 2 YOUR PROGRESS REPORT 25 SORTING ENTRIES S rena a a E A E O R 25 CLOSING YOUR PROGRESS RAPORT r ea E R A a Ea ae AE EAE E EE R EEE 26 TUTORIAL 3 MELODIC DICTATION
17. T A DIFFERENT CLICK 8 7 33 LISTEN TOTHE FIRST MEASURE Seen 34 THE OVERRIDE PITCH EVALUATION EVALUATE YOUR WORK SUMMARY TUTORIAL 5 sein eA elon ceed A Rea nec eee nea ke TUTORIAL 6 RHYTHMIC DICTATION 8 4 0 4 36 OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL RHYTHMS 402 0442 2 4 1000202 4000 00 36 PLAY THE EXERCISE E O e EE aa NOTATE THE UPPER VOICE ATES AND RESTS E A A E E R 2 EEEE E ra RESA NOTATE THE LOWER VOICE ordonne a hc a esata eee E cata a E E E ees OVERRIDE EVALUATION OPTIONS FOR PITCH L cc ccscssessesessescesescescasescsecasescnececuecaesecnecassecnesaesecaeseesecaeseeaeeeseeeaeees SET RHYTHMIC EVALUATION EVALUATE YOUR WORK ieee ea ee aie ee eA clea TUTORIAL 7 CHORALES AND HARMONIC ANALYSIS I OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL CHORALES 01 o c cececcssescssssssssesescseccesesesesecsesesessescseseceesesesaeecsesecansesenaecaeseeeaeec
18. Tutorial Rhythms 01 If you do not remember how to open an exercise refer to Tutorial 1 You ll notice that this exercise looks a bit different from the previous examples the staff is rhythmic having a single line only Set a Different Click Track For this tutorial try changing the pitches used for the underlying click track that accompanies playback by default Open the Click Track Dialog Start by opening the Click Track dialog box Select Playback Click Track Settings You will see the Click Track Settings dialog box which allows you to set and modify the way Kapelle Dictation uses an underlying click track Click Track Settings m Click Track Use click track 10 Depaul Cancel Channel Countoff Countoff 4 measures Downbeats Pitch jH 60 Listen Yolume 9 Default r Upbeats Pitch 60 Listen Volume 60 Default Set the Downbeat Pitch to 48 You can set a separate pitch for both the downbeat and the upbeat pitches as well as control the channel used for a click track and a number of countoff measures to be heard prior to the beginning of playback Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 34 of 57 Move the Downbeats slider to the left until the pitch is listed as 48 that s the one octave below middle Set the Upbeat Pitch to 48 Move the Upbeats slider to the left until the pitch is listed as 48 Add a One Measu
19. Type the following in the text box What you ve typed is as follows C indicates the key center which is C Major Kapelle Dictation treats anything preceding a colon as being a key center You may type M or m to indicate major or minor if you want but the best thing to do is to type uppercase for major keys and lowercase for minor keys Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 42 of 57 indicates the root and inversion In this case the chord is a tonic triad in root position You could have also typed 153 if you wanted but Kapelle Dictation understands that in the absence of any Arabic numerals the chord is a triad in root position After you click OK or press Enter your analysis will be entered and properly formatted Analyze the Second Chord With Add Analysis Command The second chord in the example is a dominant triad in first inversion To enter this analysis position the cursor over the second note in the bass and then Select Note Add Analysis Keyboard Press Ctrl H Select Add Analysis In the Analysis dialog box type in the following 6 You have indicated the following V indicates that the root is dominant Case distinction can be important depending on the evaluation options set by the author of the exercise In this case it is uppercase indicating a major chord 6 indicates the inversion in this case first inversion You could have typed 63 as well which would be underst
20. abled Auto Entry then pressing 6 will select the half note as the rhythmic value but will not add the note NOTE rhythmic values are selected via number keys 1 9 1 is the 64 note notes lengthen as the number increases There is one exception 9 is the 128 note Users of Finale from Coda Music Software will recognize these keyboard shortcuts as being the same as those used in that program Kapelle Dictation is different in one aspect though Shift number creates a rest unlike Finale Notate Measures 5 6 and 7 with Copy Paste Measures 5 6 and 7 are identical to measures 1 2 amp 3 Try playing measures 1 3 using the Play Document Range command then measures 5 7 using the same command to confirm this Of course you can notate these measures over again using the techniques already covered But there s not much point in doing that you can simply copy the first three measures and paste their contents into measures 5 7 Use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the window to scroll the window so that the first three measures are visible onscreen Now enclose the first three measures within a selection rectangle by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the gray rectangle around the three measures be sure to include all of the noteheads in those measures When you release the mouse button the selected area will be highlighted in reverse video You will now copy these selec
21. ar clearly that there is a passing V7 on the 4 beat of the first measure But the passing note occurs in an inner voice which you haven t notated and thus there isn t any way to enter an analysis the fourth beat because there isn t a note on the fourth beat that provides the location of a harmonic analysis symbol The harmonic placeholder solves the problem Since you have a placeholder for each harmony in the original answer document Summary of Tutorial 8 In this tutorial you have learned to e Enter harmonic analysis with pivot modulations e Enter harmonic analysis with secondary dominants e Understand the rationale behind harmonic placeholders Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 52 of 57 Tutorial 9 Your Progress Report 11 In this tutorial we take a closer look at your progress report and learn how to use it There is a great deal more to the progress report than just a listing of your evaluations you have quite a bit of control over what gets displayed or printed and in what order You already know how to sort the entries in your progress report see Tutorial 2 so let s discover some more possibilities Open your progress report and let s look at the row of buttons along the top find out what they do Filtering Entries A progress report can grow long and unwieldy very quickly This can be all the more aggravating if you are printing out a progress report and want to display only ve
22. ation for notating dictation exercises It reads music notation files created by the Kapelle master program and presents them as dictation exercises you play the exercise using the onscreen commands notate it using the set of music notation tools provided which include the ability to input harmonic analysis and receive an evaluation of your work Kapelle Dictation is designed to be easy to use although full featured This set of tutorials as well as the online help system should help you to master the program s many features It is recommended that you work through this tutorial chapter by chapter although you may find that you do not need all of the tutorial chapters provided For example if you are not being asked to do any chorale dictation exercises you probably do not need to go through tutorials 7 amp 8 However all users should go through the preliminary chapter and the first two tutorials in order to acquire basic competence using the program These early chapters are the most complete in their descriptions and contain the most illustrations Most of the tutorial chapters are quite short consisting of a single exercise and only a few points to be learned about the program The primary exception is Tutorial 1 which is relatively lengthy serving as it does as the primary and most fundamental of the tutorials Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 8 of 57 Preliminary Take a Look Around Kapelle Dictation is a Single Docu
23. can take a shortcut by moving the cursor in one measure increments To move the cursor backwards by one measure increments Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 21 of 57 Keyboard Press Ctril Left Arrow To move the cursor forwards by one measure increments Press Ctri Right Arrow After your notation has been entered it is fully editable Here are some of the actions you can carry out NOTE don t be afraid to carry out editing actions as experiments Don t forget that you can Undo everything you do Selecting Notes for Editing To select notes you can either position the cursor directly over the note s head by clicking or using the arrow keys or you can drag a selection rectangle around noteheads This second method is used primarily to select multiple notes Deleting Notes To delete a note select the note or notes you wish to delete then Select Note Delete Note Keyboard Press Backspace Select Delete Note If you haven t selected any notes this command will be disabled Changing the Pitch To modify the pitch of a note you can move it downwards and upwards on the staff by either single position increments or by arbitrary distances To move notes one line or space upwards on the staff first select them then Select Note Modify Note Move Up Keyboard Press Ctrl Shift Up Arrow Select Modify Note Move Up To move notes one line or space downwards on the staff first select them then
24. cating a pivot point at a different location that might nonetheless be perfectly valid A Note About Notating in Four Voices When notating in four voices each of the voices must be in a particular staff and layer as follows Soprano upper staff layer 1 Alto upper staff layer 2 Tenor lower staff layer 1 Bass lower staff layer2 Think in terms of upstemmed notes being in layer 1 and downstemmed notes being in layer 2 and this arrangement should make sense Notate the Soprano Voice Notate the soprano voice in Layer 1 of the upper staff Notate the Bass Voice Change to Layer 2 Select View Layer 2 Keyboard Then notate the bass voice in the lower staff Notate the Alto Voice The Alto voice is notated in Layer 2 of the upper staff You are already in Layer 2 from the previous step so all you have to do is notate in the upper staff If you aren t in layer 2 change to layer 2 before notating Notate the Tenor Voice Change to Layer 2 Menu Select View Layer 1 Keyboard Press F5 Now notate the Tenor voice in the lower staff Enter the Harmonic Analysis for Measures 1 amp 2 Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 48 of 57 After having entered the analysis for the first two measures your work thus far should look like this harmonic placeholders and pivot points have been omitted for clarity Listen to Measure 3 Listen to measure 3 and it s clear enough that the harmony has modulat
25. click on the Close button or on the Save and Close button if you have made any changes For now you can just click on the Close button Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 27 of 57 Tutorial 3 Melodic Dictation 11 In this tutorial you will learn some more advanced notation techniques including accidentals and inserting notes Open Tutorial Tutorial Melodies 02 See the first tutorial for help on opening a specific exercise if you don t remember how Set the Playback Tempo You can change the tempo for playback to suit yourself To change the tempo Select Playback Default Tempo 4 Press This command will produce the Set Tempo dialog box which contains a slider for setting the tempo Set Tempo 72 beats per minute The available settings are from 1 beat per minute to 255 beats per minute Play the First Measure This exercise is in 6 8 meter in the key of a minor Start out by playing the first measure Play a Tonic Triad Kapelle Dictation allows you to play a tonic triad at any time in order that you might orient yourself within the key center However Kapelle Dictation does not play the tonic triad without a bit of prompting from you you must tell the program the key of the exercise This is an educational program after all To play a tonic triad Select Playback Play Tonic Triad Keyboard Press Cntl l Select Play Tonic Triad
26. e indicated as small onscreen icons in addition to being listed in the evaluation summary dialog box Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 44 of 57 Notate and Analyze Tutorial Tutorial Chorales 02 The second chorale in the series is provided to give you more practice with entering harmonic analysis Of special interest to this chorale is the key and the use of a cadential 64 in the next to last measure Open the exercise and notate the outer voices Rather than giving you a full set of instructions for the operation we will restrict the discussion to the following points First Analysis Entering the Key The key of this exercise is E flat major To indicate a key center with an accidental sharp or flat use the characters and b respectively The first chord of this exercise is the tonic triad first inversion in E flat major Therefore you should enter the following string for the harmonic analysis Eb 16 You can also enter Eb 163 if you prefer Third Measure Cadential 64 The cadential 64 presents some notational and evaluational difficulties There are two schools of thought as to the proper notation of this figure either it is a tonic 64 triad followed by a dominant or dominant seventh chord or it is a dominant triad with a double possibly triple suspension Rather than get caught up in the fray concerning this trivial issue Kapelle Dictation can understand and evaluate either notation unless you s
27. ed from A Major to E Major The final harmony of Measure 2 is acting as a pivot chord 163 A Major pivoting as 1V63 in E Major If you didn t hear that the pivot point indicator makes it clear enough Change the harmonic analysis on the fourth chord to indicate a pivot chord modulation Edit the Fourth Chord Position the cursor over a note in the fourth chord of the example then Select Note Edit Analysis Press Ctrl Shift H Or Click on the harmonic analysis placeholder This command brings back up the Analysis dialog box containing your entry for the fourth chord 163 16 Change this entry to read as follows 163pE 1V63 Here s what you ve written is the original root 63 is the original inversion p indicates that what follows is a pivot chord E is the new key center for the pivot chord E Major IV is the pivot root 63 is the pivot inversion After you click OK the second measure will look like this Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 49 of 57 NOTE when Kapelle Dictation parses the input text string for a harmonic analysis it completely ignores any spaces Therefore feel free to use some spaces in your input string if you find that they help you to think more clearly about your analysis For example the string entered above 6 6 could have been written 163 p 1V63 and would have worked precisely the same Analyze the Remainder of the Exerci
28. file pane is a tree control that contains all of the files available to you in Kapelle Dictation To expand the tree click on the plus signs next to the entries The items in the File Pane are categorized into three types folders sets and files Pa folder is the same as a standard Windows directory set is a group of files that share similar characteristics have been grouped together like individual examples within a collection HA file is an individual exercise Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 12 of 57 Tutorial 1 Melodic Dictation Open Tutorial Tutorial Melodies 01 To open this file expand the Tutorial tree in the File Pane by clicking on its plus sign then expand the Tutorial Melodies tree by clicking on its plus sign The File Pane should look like this 2 Tutorial 2 Tutorial Chorales Tutorial Chords Tutorial Melodies 01 02 Tutorial Rhythms To open the file Tutorial Melodies 01 double click on the icon 81 01 Or if you prefer you can click once on the icon then Select File Open Select Open Play the Entire Melody Having opened the exercise you will want to play it Here s how Select Playback Play Document pf Keyboard Select Play Document Play the First Measure You can play any individual measure in a document To do this first select the measure you wish to play by clicking anywhere within it then Menu Se
29. for a particular command will always be listed immediately to Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 11 of 57 the right of the command s name on the menu such as Ctri K meaning to hold down the Control key and type the letter k Some menus are hierarchical that is choosing a command from a menu results in the presentation of another menu Simply move the mouse pointer to the second menu and choose your command from there Context Menus A context menu results from clicking the alternate mouse button usually the right button This menu will contain the most likely to be used commands for the object below the pointer Many commands that are found on the Note and Playback menus are also found on the context menu for the document pane for example Status Bar The status bar runs along the bottom of the window The leftmost pane displays information about individual commands as you choose them from a toolbar or a menu The group of panes on the right side of the status bar give you information about your current position in the document For Help press F1 Note C 0 5 1 1 Layer 1 Document Pane The document pane is the large pane on the right hand side of the main window This is the area in which you will notate your work When you first open Kapelle Dictation this pane is empty but once you have opened your first exercise this pane will always contain notated musical data File Pane The
30. ht click the mouse on the document pane to produce the context menu you will find it has changed the note editing commands are no longer available while the second set of playback commands have been added Summary of Tutorial 1 In this tutorial you have learned how to do the following e Open an exercise for editing Add notes to the measure Play an exercise either whole or in part Undo and Redo actions Copy and paste musical notation Delete notes Change the pitch or rhythmic value of notes Evaluate a completed exercise For More Information You may consult the Online Help system for more information with special emphasis on the following topics e Note Entry Techniques e Playback e Evaluating an Exercise Tutorial 2 Your Progress Report Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 25 of 57 Every time you evaluate an exercise in Kapelle Dictation the program will make an entry in your progress report as to that evaluation Your progress report is a special file that Kapelle Dictation created for you the first time you used the program To see your progress report Select File Show Report pp The dialog box that is displayed to you will show you the complete contents of your progress report Here is a sample progress report with a large number of entries 1 1 Y V7 kpIM 03 kpl Chorales 1 1 V V7 kpl 04 kpl Chorales 1 1 V V7 kpl 05 kpl 1 1 V V7 kpI 06 kpl Ch
31. if you don t want Position the cursor on middle c keep an eye on the Status Bar Note panel to make sure you re on the correct pitch then Press 6 It is assumed that you are using the Auto Entry technique If Auto Entry has been disabled you must first select a half note note value then the Add Note command via a menu toolbar or keyboard shortcut Notate the Rest of the Chord Position the cursor on e on the first line of the staff Then Menu Select Note Add Chord Note Keyboard Press Ctrl Enter Context Select Add Chord Note Repeat this action for the top note of the chord the g on the second line of the staff Notate the Remaining Chords Go through the remaining three measures and notate the chords using the above techniques Remember that you do not have to enter the chord notes in any particular order Start by using Add Note or Insert Note to enter the first note then use Add Chord Note to enter the remaining notes of the chords Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 32 of 57 When you have finished evaluate your work Summary of Tutorial 4 In this tutorial you have learned how to e Notate chords by using the Add Chord Note command Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 33 of 57 Tutorial 5 Rhythmic Dictation In this tutorial you will learn about notating basic rhythms in Kapelle Dictation adjusting the click track and overriding an evaluation option Open Tutorial
32. ill take down all four voices of the chorale as well as handle pivot chord modulations and secondary applied harmonies in the harmonic analysis Open Tutorial Tutorial Chorales 03 See Tutorial 1 if you have forgotten how to open an exercise Set Evaluation Options to All Voices For the purposes of learning the program let s notate all four voices of the chorale this time Remember this is a tutoriaha lot of people have difficulty taking down the inner voices of a chorale but this is just for learning the program Open the Evaluation Options property sheet Select File Evaluation Options Then click on the Voices tab You will see the Voices property page Evaluation Options Pitch Rhythm Voices Solo Voices Analysis Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Click on the Evaluate all voices radio button then click OK Pivot Points Looking at this exercise you will notice something new in addition to the usual collection of harmonic analysis placeholders Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 47 of 57 That little jobber that looks like a traffic light is an indicator that tells you that there is a pivot point in the harmonic analysis at this point Unlike a harmonic analysis placeholder a pivot point indicator isn t a button that you can click it s just an indicator It tells you where the pivot point the original document is located so you aren t counted off for indi
33. k Select File Evaluate hs After you evaluate your work a summary dialog box will be presented to you showing you how you have performed with your notation Any errors will be indicated by type rhythmic errors pitch errors errors in harmonic analysis which aren t germane to this exercise and so forth In addition any errors you have made will be marked with small icons on your notated version Finally the correct notated version will be displayed in the document pane directly beneath your notated version Here s an example of a summary dialog Evaluation Summary Total Errors 1 8833 Close Types of Errors Pitch 1 Rhythm 0 Root 0 Inversion 0 Note that there was one pitch resulting total score of 98 33 for this exercise To find where the error occurred in the notation look for the note with a small icon next to it NOTE the above example does not necessary match your notated version Compare With Playback Once you have evaluated an exercise you can compare your notated version to the original by playing both of them After you have evaluated an exercise the commands on the User Playback Toolbar will be enabled This toolbar looks like this The icons look almost identical to those on the Playback toolbar except for the small degree signs on the upper right side of the toolbar Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 24 of 57 If you rig
34. l 3 Require identical notation will count any rhythmic notation as incorrect that does not precisely match the original Normally you would not want to use this level of evaluation primarily because rhythmic notation is by no means etched in cement and there are different ways to notate the same rhythm correctly Evaluate Your Work Now evaluate your work Any rhythmic errors will be indicated If you have selected Level 2 you might have more errors than had you selected Level 1 and more yet had you selected Level 3 AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT EVALUATION OPTIONS It is up to the original author of the exercise whether you will be able to override any of the exercise s evaluation options If the Evaluation Options command on the File Menu is disabled i e grayed out then the author has chosen to disallow any overriding of the original evaluation options Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 39 of 57 Tutorial 7 Chorales and Harmonic Analysis Open Tutorial Tutorial Chorales 01 This exercise is a typical four measure chorale phrase notated in half notes four voices with the final measure consisting of single whole note chord In most situations you will be asked to notate the outer voices Soprano and bass and provide a harmonic analysis below the staff Disable the Click Track Given that there is no rhythmic component to speak of in this exercise you may wish to turn off the click track altogether it can be
35. lect Playback Play Measure 5 Select Play Measure Play the Second Measure In addition to clicking within measures to select them you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the cursor from measure to measure Try selecting Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 13 of 57 the second measure by pressing the right and left arrow keys until the cursor is located within the second measure then follow the above instructions for playing the first measure Play the First and Second Measures You can also select a group of measures to play if you prefer First press and hold the left mouse button then drag a rectangular selection around the first two measures Then use the following command Select Playback Play Document Range gt Select Play Document Range After you have selected this command you can use the slider controls in the dialog box to select which measures you wish to hear If you ve selected the first two measures the sliders will be set as follows note that you can move them if you wish Play Measure Range Measures To Play Start 5 Stop Playback Playback will stop automatically when you reach the end of the document or the end of the current playback selection if you are playing individual measures or a range of measures If you wish to stop playback manually here s how Select Playback Stop fate
36. log box Note that the dialog box will automatically ensure that all the actions from your selection to the latest action have been selected Click OK and see the results in your document Redo Your Actions You may Redo any undone action Redo means to take back an Undo or to Undo the Undo if you prefer The Redo commands are much the same as the Undo commands you may Redo a single undo or multiple undos To redo a single undo Menu Select Edit Redo Keyboard Press Ctril R To redo multiple undos Select Edit Redo Multiple After you have selected Redo Multiple you will be presented with a dialog box that is identical to the one for Undo Multiple Use this dialog box to Redo all of the Undo actions you carried out in the previous step and your document should return to the way it was before you used the Undo command Notate Measure 4 Notating measure 4 includes operations which are different from measures 1 through 3 one of the notes is dotted the first note and there are rhythmic values other than quarter notes Add the First Note The first note of the measure is an F dotted quarter note In Kapelle Dictation you enter dotted notes precisely the same way as you would write them on paper first the basic note value a quarter note in this case then you dot it Start out by entering a quarter note F on the first beat of measure 4 by using the Add Note command Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 18 of 57
37. ment Interface SDI program meaning that all of the program s operations and information are presented in one single window That window is divided into a number of different areas and features a number of different components This chapter is about understanding and recognizing those components Online and Context Sensitive Help Probably the most important thing to find is the Help system which is quite extensive There are two components to the Help system online help and context sensitive help Online Help To activate the Online Help Select Help Help Topics Keyboard You will be presented with the main table of contents for the online Help system Help Topics Kapelle Dictation Help Contents index Find Click a book and then click Open Or click another tab such as Index General Subjects Reference Toolbars Print Cancel To expand a topic double click on it To display an article double click on it The Online Help system includes an extensive index click on the Index tab and select a topic from the list You can also search for words in the help text by using the Find tab Context Sensitive Help Context Sensitive help can be invoked to explain the use of a particular menu command toolbar button window component or the like To enable context sensitive help Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 9 of 57 Press Shift F1 After you enable c
38. n arrows to position the cursor so that it is precisely over the first space on the treble clef oS Practice Selecting Note Values You can select note rhythmic values in a number of ways Before you do this however you need to disable the Auto Entry feature which combines selecting a note value with entering a note To disable Auto Entry Select Note Auto Entry it should be unchecked afterwards Press Once Auto Entry has been disabled you can practice selecting note and rest values without unintentionally adding notes to the measure To select note values Select Note Note Values Any command Click on a note value icon Keyboard Press keys 1 9 for different note values Select Note Values Any command Using the keyboard to select note values is the fastest As you press the keys notice how the toolbar icons are pressed and released to reflect your choices Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 15 of 57 Rests are considered more note values To select rest values Select Note Rest Values Any command Click on a rest value icon Press keys Shift 1 through Shift 9 for different rest values Select Rest Values Any command Like selecting note values using the keyboard to select rest values is the fastest A rest value is the same as its corresponding note value but using the Shift key with the number Now re enable Auto Entry which will make notation much faster Menu Select
39. ontext sensitive help the next item you click will bring up a context sensitive help screen regarding that item Try using Context Sensitive help Click on the icon to enable Context Sensitive help or Press Shift F1 then click on one of the toolbar icons at the top of the main window A help window will pop up telling you what the icon is and may lead you to further information about the icon and what it does Enabling Context Sensitive help and clicking the main window empty when the program first starts will produce the master index to the help system The Main Window and Its Parts Following this illustration are descriptions of the main window s individual parts 14 Kapele Dictation EN View Fe ais veee 2 248 ej Document Pane Status Bar 0 5 1 Mess I Layer 1 Help press F Toolbars There are six toolbars in Kapelle Dictation Toolbars contain icons which you can click in place of menu commands Each icon on the toolbar will identify itself in two ways first by a Tooltip which will appear underneath the icon if you hold the mouse pointer over the icon for a few seconds Second the leftmost Status Bar pane at the bottom of the window will describe the icon if you hold the mouse pointer over it Toolbars can be docked or floated
40. ood by the program as being equivalent to 6 After you click OK your entry is formatted as follows 45 NOTE had you typed V63 the formatted product would have looked like this Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 43 of 57 The evaluation routines treat the two as equivalent About Continuous Analysis When you enter harmonic analysis using the Add Analysis command if Continuous Analysis is selected the command is on the Note Menu then the cursor will automatically jump to the next note in the current staff and layer That way you can add your harmonic analysis one chord at a time continuously without having to give the command over and over Note however that continuous analysis doesn t happen when you re adding analysis using harmonic placeholders There are some confusing actions that can occur as a result of doing this although that might not make any sense when you re still just learning how to use the program Continue to the End of the Exercise Continue adding analyses using the Add Analysis command with continuous analysis or by clicking on each of the harmonic placeholders your choice The following list gives you the appropriate strings to type into the Analysis dialog box for the entire exercise with possible variants listed Analysis String 1 153 3 V65 V7 Now evaluate your work If you have made any errors in your analysis perhaps from a typo they will b
41. orales 1 1 1 kpl 02 kpl Rhythms Chapter 1 Rhythms Chapter 1 Rhythms Chapter 1 Rhythms Chapter 1 Rhythms Chapter 1 1 1 7 Chorales 1 1 V V7 kpI 03 kpl Chorales 1 1 V V7 kpl 10 kpl Chorales 1 1 V V7 kpI 03 kpl Chorales 1 1 V 7 kpI 04 kpl Chorales 1 1 V Y7 kp 01 kpl 1 1 V V7 kpI 07 kpl Chorales 1 1 V V7 kph 08 kpl 1 1 V V7 kpI 03 kpl Melodies Chapter 1 kpl 1 kpl Melodies Chapter 1 kpl 2 kpl Delete Tren Mon Jun 23 1997 07 12PM Sun Jun 22 1997 12 01AM Sun Jun 22 1997 12 10AM Sun Jun 22 1997 12 034M Mon Jun 23 1997 07 10PM Sun Jun 22 1997 03 21PM Tue Jun 24 1997 08 32PM Sun Jun 22 1997 03 16PM Tue Jun 24 1997 08 20PM Sun Jun 22 1997 03 17PM Sun Jun 22 1997 03 18PM Tue Jun 24 1997 08 43PM Tue Jun 24 1997 09 33PM Tue Jun 24 1997 10 48PM Thu Jun 26 1997 03 20PM Thu Jun 26 1997 04 44PM Thu Jun 26 1997 04 44PM Thu Jun 26 1997 04 52PM Thu Jun 26 1997 04 53PM Sat Jun 28 1997 03 00PM Mon Jun 30 1997 01 52PM Mon Jun 30 1997 01 52PM Filters Items Evaluated pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis all pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass pitch analysis sop bass rhythm all thythm rhythm
42. orial Rhythms 02 If you do not remember how to open an exercise refer to Tutorial 1 After opening this exercise you see that the staff looks the same as a melodic dictation although it is a two voice rhythm The staff lines and clefs used for an exercise are not dictated by Kapelle Dictation but are up to the discretion of the original author of the file This file has been written using a treble clef and a five line staff Play the Exercise In playing the exercise you will notice that the two voice rhythm has been notated on the notes e the upper voice is pitched to the e on the fourth space of the staff while the lower voice is pitched to the e on the first line of the staff Remember that this is not any setting in Kapelle Dictation the original author of the file wrote the notes on these pitches Notate the Upper Voice You are not required to notate the rhythms on the same pitch as the author wrote them but there s no harm in doing so In notating a two voice rhythmic texture it s a good practice to notate the upper voice higher than the lower one which avoids confusion For now go ahead and notate the upper voice rhythm on the pitch on the fourth space of the staff Ties and Rests As you notate the upper voice you will ascertain that there are some rests in the rhythm as well as some tied notes To notate rests choose a rest value instead of a note value Select N
43. orials Page 30 of 57 Notate a B flat In measure 3 there is a B flat on the fourth eighth note beat of the measure To flat the B on this fourth eighth note beat first select the note by either positioned the cursor directly over the notehead or by enclosing the notehead within a selection rectangle then Select Note Modify Note Flat Note Select Modify Note Flat Note Continue notating the exercise and when you are finished evaluate it Summary of Tutorial 3 In this tutorial you have learned how to e Sharp and flat individual notes Insert a note into a measure Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 31 of 57 Tutorial 4 Chord Dictation In this tutorial you will learn how to create chords with the use of the Add Note To Chord command Open Tutorial Tutorial Chords 01 If you do not remember how to open an exercise refer to Tutorial 1 Play the Exercise Instead of being a melody this exercise consists of four chords of a half note s duration each Notate the First Note You notate a chord in Kapelle Dictation by using either the Add Note or Insert Note command to add the first note to the chord and then you use the Add Chord Note command to add the remaining notes to the chord The first chord is a C Major triad in root position with the bottom note middle Begin by using the Add Note command to notate the middle c you don t have to start with the bottom note
44. ote Rest Values value Click on a rest icon Keyboard Press Shift number Same numbers as for notes To notate a tie first position the cursor over the note you wish to tie or enclose the note within a selection rectangle Then Select Note Modify Note Tie Keyboard Press F10 Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 37 of 57 To remove a tie from a note select the note then Select Note Modify Note Untie Press Shift F10 Change to Layer 2 Now you need to notate the lower voice Kapelle Dictation can accommodate two polyphonic voices per staff each in its own layer Think of layers as being measures superimposed on each other one layer being for one of the polyphonic voice and the other layer being for the other polyphonic voice To change to Layer 2 Select View Layer 2 To change to Layer 1 Select View Layer 1 Notate the Lower Voice Now that you have enabled Layer 2 for input notate the lower voice You will discover that as soon as there are notes in both layers of a particular measure the stemming automatically changes to polyphonic stemming This is automatic and cannot be overridden Override Evaluation Options for Pitch For the purposes of practice this exercise has left the Pitch evaluation option enabled for this exercise although the rhythmic dictation exercises you do as part of your daily work should have disabled pitch evaluation Be sure to open the Evaluation Options
45. pecifically override that capability in the evaluation options or the original author has done 50 notate harmonic analysis for the third measure cadential 64 without a following V7 here are some strings you could write that would all be acceptable to Kapelle Dictation First Chord Second Chord 1844 4 53 64 83 If the second chord contains a V7 you may include that your analysis as well using whatever method you prefer Edit an Analysis With a Harmonic Placeholder Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 45 of 57 Harmonic placeholders have another hidden talent if you click on the harmonic placeholder that accompanies already entered analysis the dialog box will come up already in Edit Analysis mode so you can edit an analysis you ve already entered Try clicking the placeholder for some of the analyses you ve entered and see how that works Summary of Tutorial 7 In this tutorial you have learned how to Change the output program for playback Disable a click track Enter the outer voices of a polyphonic chorale Enter basic harmonic analysis symbols For More Information In the Online Help system see the following articles e Click Track e MIDI Settings e Harmonic Analysis Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 46 of 57 Tutorial 8 Chorales and Harmonic Analysis For a more advanced look at harmonic analysis and chorale dictation with this tutorial we w
46. pening n anran NANE 12 1 oir iiis 12 F file pane H harmonic analysis 40 harmonic analysis applied secondary chords 49 harmonic analysis cadential 64 43 harmonic analysis continuous analysis feature 42 harmonic analysis editing with harmonic 43 harmonic analysis harmo analysis 39 harmonic analysis key 43 harmonic analysis 47 harmonic analysis showing pivot points 45 Nel Pic as help context sensitive Insert NOTES 29 7 des eases menu commands MENU Context N NOtating FOUL note values keyboard selection note values 1 note addr note note dot note flat note rhythmic 5 RE 0 Online 8 38 play
47. range of measures play careers Plays progress report deleting entries progress report exporting progress report filtering progress report printing progress report R redo multiple 5 17 redo single 17 sh rp notennet Single Document status Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 57 of 57 T 27 tie 35 tonic triad 27 toolbars ssi toolbars dock d prenns ae 10 toolbars floating 10 U undo multiple 2 16 undo single 2 16 V volume 13
48. re Countoff Click in the Countoff check box to enable countoff measures and either type in T in the edit box or click the spin control arrows to set the number of countoff measures to 1 Countoff Countoff fi measures Then click OK to apply your settings Listen to the First Measure Now listen to the first measure of the rhythm Note that it is preceded by a single measure of countoff beats we re 5 8 with an inner division of 3 2 so you re hearing dotted quarter followed by a quarter beat When you notate rhythm there is no need to worry about pitch although you can notate in pitch if you want to pitch information is ignored Notate the Rhythm Notating pure rhythm without pitch is the same as any other Kapelle Dictation notation although you can ignore pitch elements just notate right on the center line There is nothing lost if you choose to notate on a different line or even give the rhythm a melodic contour Notate the rhythm for the composition all the way through Override Pitch Evaluation By default Kapelle Dictation evaluates the pitch of notes But in this instance you don t want the pitch evaluated since you are concerned only with rhythm Most of the time the author of the exercise you are doing will have set the Evaluation options for an exercise You may or may not be able to override those options In this case you can To override evaluation options Selec
49. roperty page Dates Directories and Sets Score Select only those evaluations having scores of 50 to fi 00 a Cancel Deleting Entries To delete entries in your progress report select the entry by clicking on the Name column for that entry and then click on the Delete button You can choose multiple contiguous entries by shift clicking click on the first entry you wish to select then hold down the Shift key and click on the last If you hold down the Control key while clicking you can select multiple non contiguous entries Deleting entries isn t final until you close the Progress Report dialog box and confirm that you want to save your changes Printing a Progress Report You may print out your progress report by clicking on the Print button If you have filtered your report you will be asked whether you want to print your entire progress report or just the filtered set It s generally a good idea to filter your evaluations prior to printing you can use a lot of paper otherwise Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 54 of 57 Exporting a Progress Report You may export your progress report to a tab delimited text file which is suitable for importing into a database or spreadsheet program To export the report click on the Export button and then use the standard File Save As dialog box to determine the location for the text file Summary of Tutorial 9 In this tutorial you have learned how to
50. ry few items say those exercises you have done the past few days or maybe only those from a particular folder or set of exercises By using filters you can do just that To filter your entries click on the Filters button in the progress report The Filters property sheet is displayed Dates Directories and Sets Score Show those evaluations created Within the past 1 a day s Within the past 1 week s Within the past 1 month s Filtering by Date Use the Dates property page to select those evaluations for display which have been done only within a particular time frame You may filter entries occurring at any time from one year ago 12 months to one day ago Click on the appropriate radio button and choose the value you wish in the associated text box Filtering by Directories and Sets Use the Directories and Sets property page to limit display to only those exercises which belong to a particular group of exercises Place a check mark next to those which you wish displayed Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 53 of 57 Dates Directories and Sets Score Select the directories sets you wish to include Chorales 1 1 V 7 73 Ci Melodies M Tutorial Tutorial Melodies Filtering by Score Use the Score property page to filter your evaluations by only those whose grades lie between certain outward limits Select the low end and high end from the Score p
51. scneeseeeeneees NOTE ABOUT NOTATING IN FOUR VOICES c ssssssessesessesceseseescssesceecseescnececsecaesecnecaesecneceesecaeseesecaeseeaeeeseeaeens 47 NOTATE THE SOPRA NO OICE cesses 47 THE BASS VOICE NOTATE THEALTO VOICE INOTATE THE TENOR VOICE EE E A 47 ENTER THE HARMONIC ANALYSIS FOR MEASURES 1 622 2 42 22 1 0 0000000000000000000000000000 0 05 47 LISTEN MEASURE 35 sates a os ded sot geass EE ERA EDIE THEFOURTH GHORD ANALYZE THE REMAINDER THE EXERCISE EVALUATE NOTATE AND ANALYZE TUTORIAL TUTORIAL CHORALES 04 2 2 2 2 0 10 000002010000000000000 0000045044 49 TO HERO ABOUT HARMONIC PLACEHOLDERS AND PIVOT 50 SHORT DIGRESSION HOW HARMONIC PLACEHOLDERS CAN 50 SUMMARY E A E E 51 TUTORIAL 9 YOUR PROGRESS REPORT Il seeseseeseeseecoeeeoecoeeesecooeeesecoseeoeeoossooeeosseooseoseooereseeooseeseeoseeeee D 2 SUMMARY OF TUTORTAL 9 E E a E aA 54 TUTORIAL 10 STORING THE STATE OF
52. se The rest of the analysis is in the key of E Major consisting of a cadential 64 followed by V7 and then the tonic When you have completed your analysis your work should look like this excepting the differing methods of indicating inversions and the cadential 64 NOTE the sixth chord is notated without an explicit root The entry string is 753 During evaluation Kapelle Dictation will carry over the previous root and understand that this chord is a continuation of a dominant harmony The same situation would arise if you were to notate a tonic root position triad followed by the first inversion as I and then 6 for the second chord Such harmonic analysis is perfectly acceptable and will not result in an evaluation error ALSO NOTE the harmonic analysis placeholders and pivot point indicators are not shown for clarity s sake Evaluate Your Work Remember that you have chosen to evaluate all four voices this time around so you might have more mistakes However with more voices being evaluated individual mistakes count for less than they do with fewer voices there being more total points in the evaluation Notate and Analyze Tutorial Tutorial Chorales 04 Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 50 of 57 You are on your own with Chorale 04 it is included primarily for practice purposes Chorale 04 does contain one item that we haven t covered yet and that is the use of a secondary or applied
53. sens 39 DISABLE THE CLICK TRACK a araa rea a ae re a re irre r i aahi onis CHANGE THE OUTPUT PROGRAM LISTEN TO THE AA RC SE T aes R N E i NOTATE THE BASS A EE A A aks HARMONIC ANALYSIS PLACEHOLDERS scsssssssessesessescesessescssesceccasencsecassecnesaesecaesacnecaesecaesaesecaeseesecaeseeaeeesaeeaeees ANALYZE THE FIRST CHORD WITH A HARMONIC PLACEHOLDER cssssssscseesceecseecneceesecaeeeseceeeeaeeeeeeaeees ANALYZE THE SECOND CHORD WITH ADD ANALYSIS COMMAND ABOUT CONTINUOUS A NALYSIS nes CONTINUE TO THE END OF THE EXERCISE scssssessesessescesessescssesceccnsescuecassecnesacsecaesscnecaesecaeseesecassnesecaeeeaeeneseeasens NOTATE AND ANALYZE TUTORIAL TUTORIAL CHORALES 402 2 1 2 2 2 410 7 000 0000000000000000000 000004544 4 FIRST ANALYSIS ENTERING THE KE Yee 5 th NEE E E distin THIRD MEASURE CADENTIAL 64 EDIT AN ANALYSIS WITH A HARMONIC SUMMARY OF TUTORA E ene FOR MORE INFORMATION Creed Oe TUTORIAL 8 CHORALES AND HARMONIC ANALYS IS 46 OPEN TUTORIAL TUTORIAL CHORALES 03 SET EVALUATION OPTIONS ALL VOICES ceccssescsseesescseesceceee
54. spiel Nylon String Guitar Synth Bass 2 Music Box Steel String Guitar Violin ibraphone Electric Jazz Guitar Viola Marimba Electric Clean Guitar Cello ylophone Electric Muted Guitar Contrabass Tubular Bells Overdriven Guitar Tremolo Strings Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 40 of 57 Cancel Pizzicato Strings Orchestral Strings Timpani String Ensemble 1 String Ensemble 2 SynthStrings 1 SynthStrings 2 Choir Aahs Voice Synth Yoice Orchestra Hit Trumpet Trombone Tuba Muted Trumpet Click on Electric Piano 2 and then click the OK button When the dialog box closes note that the output slider has changed to reflect your new choice Listen to the Exercise MIDI Output Device Sound Blaster FM Synthesis Channel 1 Program Play through the exercise so you can hear the four voice texture with the new program sound If you don t like the sound quality you can experiment with the MIDI Settings dialog until you find a sound that you like Notate the Soprano Now notate the soprano line If you are notating outer voices only you needn t concern yourself with the program s understanding which voice you are notating by default Kapelle Dictation will consider that you are notating outer voices only and that the upper of those voices you notate is the soprano voice Position the cursor in the upper staff line be sure to click in the upper staff or pre
55. ss Arrow a few times and notate the upper staff line Notate the Bass Position the cursor in the lower staff line be sure to click in the lower staff or press Ctril Down Arrow few times and notate the bass line Again you do not need to worry whether the program will understand that you are notating the bass voice it will Harmonic Analysis Placeholders Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 41 of 57 Below the staff you ll notice small light blue squares Each of these is a harmonic analysis placeholder which shows you the location of a harmonic analysis symbol in the exercise These placeholders serve two purposes first to show you where the original source exercise places an analysis symbol and second to allow you to enter a harmonic analysis at this point whether or not there is actually a note at that location Analyze the First Chord With a Harmonic Placeholder Now it is time to input your harmonic analysis Kapelle Dictation contains a very rich harmonic analysis system that inputs a simple text string then formats and displays it as a harmonic analysis To enter a harmonic analysis click on the very first harmonic analysis placeholder small dialog box is displayed consisting of an edit text field plus OK and Cancel buttons Harmonic Analysis You enter your analysis into this text field For this first chord you need to indicate the key center as well as the first harmony
56. t File Evaluation Options Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 35 of 57 The Evaluation Options property sheet will be displayed This consists of five different property pages with evaluation settings For the purposes of this tutorial you are only concerned with the first of those pages having to do with Pitch evaluation Evaluation Options Pitch Rhythm Voices Solo Voices Analysis Ignore enharmonic differences This particular property page determines whether or not the evaluation routines will consider the pitch of the notes as subject to checking as well as if enharmonic equivalents will be considered as the same pitch or not Click in the Evaluate pitch check box to de select this option then click OK Evaluate Your Work Now you can evaluate your rhythmic notation without having any worry that the program will consider pitch along with the evaluation Had you left that option enabled and had your notated pitches strayed from the single line on the staff the program would have considered your notation incorrect Summary of Tutorial 5 In this tutorial you have learned how to e Notate single line rhythms e Adjust the pitches used for a click track e Enable countoff measures e Set an evaluation option Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 36 of 57 Tutorial 6 Rhythmic Dictation 11 Layers In this tutorial you will learn how to notate a two voice polyphonic texture Open Tutorial Tut
57. ted notes to the Windows clipboard like so Select Edit Copy Press Ctrl C Now scroll so that measure 5 is visible in the window and click the mouse anywhere within measure 5 If you prefer you can use the arrow keys to move the selection point to measure 5 Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 20 of 57 It might help to keep an eye on the Measure pane in the Status Bar to make sure you have positioned the cursor in the correct measure Note 0 5 1 5 Layer 1 Now choose the Paste command to paste in the copied material Select Edit Paste Press Ctrl V Once you have pasted in the material measures 5 7 should look like this Notate Measure 8 Measure 8 should contain no surprises for you at this point It contains a dotted quarter note an eighth note and a half note When you have finished measure 8 it should look like this Scroll Through and Proofread Your Notation You can scroll through the document by using the horizontal scroll bar for horizontal motion and the vertical scroll bar for vertical motion you probably won t need to worry about vertically scrolling with this exercise You can also move through the document just by moving the onscreen cursor horizontally as well Now would be a good time to learn a speed cursor movement Normally when you use the left and right arrows the cursor stops on the position of each note But you
58. ure Here s how Select Note Jump to Next Measure to toggle the feature Notate Measures 2 and 3 Continue using the Add Note command to notate measures 2 and 3 Remember that pressing the 5 key on the keyboard simultaneously selects the quarter note rhythm all the notes in these measures are quarter notes and adds the note to the end of the measure Or if you prefer you can press the Enter key since there is no need to select a new rhythmic value for the notes you are entering When you have completed measures 2 and 3 they should look like this Undo Your Actions You may undo take back any number of editing actions Every editing action you carry out such as adding a note is stored and can be taken back all the way back to the very first action since opening the document You may undo single actions or an entire group of actions at once To undo a single action Select Edit Undo Press Ctrl Z To undo multiple actions Select Edit Undo Multiple After you select Undo Multiple you are presented with a dialog box that lists your actions one at a time If your actions have been to enter the notes in the first three measures there should be twelve actions listed all called Add Note Kapelle Dictation Tutorials Page 17 of 57 Multiple Undo D Actions You may select as many of these to Undo as you want by clicking on any action or actions in the dia
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