BowTIE: Brass Technique Instruction Env / News: Recent posts

I have started work porting BowTIE to Linux. A Macintosh version is also planned.

Cheers,
Dave

BowTIE (Brass Transposition Instruction Environment) is a CAI tool designed to help brass instrumentalists learn to transpose. The 0.20 (alpha) release boasts new content from Jay Lichtmann, principal trumpet of the Hartford Symphony. It also sports improved support for more complex abc files and provides improved record-keeping functions. Teachers will appreciate new documentation for defining instructional units, and players will notice the improved appearance of the musical notation--thanks to the abcm2ps utility now packaged with BowTIE.... read more

BowTIE (Brass Transposition Instruction Environment) is a CAI tool designed to help brass instrumentalists learn to transpose. The 0.13 (alpha) release enhances performance scoring, refines performance calibration, provides a metronome, and sports a new look.

If you play (or teach) trumpet or horn, please check out http://bowtie.sourceforge.net.