MusixCool's Help
Navigation Icons
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This button will take you to the main menu, designed
as MusixCool's house of subjects. |
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On this page, you will find the instruments of the whole
world, world music, composers by nation, and music and religion sections
from around the world. |
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The greatest musicians of all times, including music,
concise reviews, references to their period, country, musical occupations
other than composing, and quotations by them and about them. |
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MIDI files sample directory, sorted by categories. Includes
MIDI files and links to huge web directories, offering an endless selection
of more samples. |
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Musical glossary, sophistically linked to the variety
of topics in MusixCool© and demonstrating them in multimedia. |
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A visual dictionary of notation signs. Pointing at a
sign will present its meaning, briefly and concisely explained. |
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Since everybody needs a good laugh once in a while, here
you can find a selection of caricatures, shadow-images and witty musical
jokes. |
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Learn what happened every day in the history of music,
and switch immediately to MusixCool's screens, explaining and specifying
the musical figure. |
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Different musical forms and structures, and the principles
according to which they are built. |
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The periods in music history and the main schools and
trends. |
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Instruments, sorted by families, and the human voices.
Even conductors and their role are profoundly discussed. |
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A quick review of art history, particularly painting,
and the resemblance in periods and schools to music history. |
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This button refers you to a computerized metronome, beating
at a set speed, of your own choice, so you can play accompanied by the
computer and know the various tempos. |
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The melody research laboratory, allowing you to get acquainted
with different concepts in music, by listening to an anthem while played
through their filters. |
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A variety of explanations and lessons about different
topics in music theory, linked to other parts of MusixCool. |
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Everything concerned with notation can be found here:
fundamentals of notation, history of written music, games, archives and
even online editing. |
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This is our own downloads center, for music freeware
especially selected for you. Only the best and totally complementary software.
Immediate download! |
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Entry to MusixCool's web links page. This page includes
sorted links to many musical subjects, offering a selection of interesting
websites that will increase the musical knowledge experience. |
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Clicking this button will connect you to MusixCool's
student center. Here we offer websites created by students engaged with
every aspect of music. |
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This button will enable you to receive further information
about the subject you are looking into on any screen. |
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The quotation center - things a composer said and things
people said about him or her, and also quotes on different musical issues.
All sorted and connected to the relevant screen. |
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A finder, allowing various forms of search, from a visual
search of composers and instruments, to a search on all MusixCool©
screens and the entire World Wide Web. |
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Go to previous screen. |
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Go to next screen. |
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If this button is on the top of the page, it will connect
you to the menu or screen higher in hierarchy; for example, if we are on
a certain composer's screen, we will go to the composer menu. If this button
is not at the top of the page, it will connect the user to the top of the
current screen. |
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Go back to previous screen (last screen you have been
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Tools Icons
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This icon is a hypertext clicker, and by pushing it you
can connect to a location in MusixCool© where you can expand on something.
For example, click the icon and get to the composer Haydn. |
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Clicking this button will play a musical MIDI demonstration
to the concept next to it. |
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Clicking this button will play a musical MP3 demonstration
to the concept next to it. |
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Clicking this button will play a video movie which demonstras
the concept next to it. |
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This button presents a diagram or a scheme demonstration
of the concept next to it. For example, push the button on the right for
a diagram demonstration of a theme and variations. |
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Clicking this button will present a picture of the subject
at hand. For example, click the button on the right for a picture of a
lute. |
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If an instrument is mentioned, this button will appear
and address you to it. |
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Clicking this button will generate a further, detailed
explanation to the topic next to it. |
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Clicking this button will take you to a selection of
jokes on the subject about which you are reading right now. |
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Clicking this button will present a notation or score
exemplar for the relevant topic. |
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Clicking this button will take you to our musical experiment
lab. |
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This icon is a hypertext clicker, and by pushing it you
can search in MusixCool© for the screen deals with the subject. |
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Clicking this button will connect you to an Internet
search engine for websites dealing with the subject next to it.
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Text Colors
Colors in MusixCool© are designated
to add selective information. Every color serves a different kind of information:
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Green will mark important facts
to remember.
Pink will mark musical terms you
can look up in the glossary.
Red means titles of musical works
on the subject.
Blue means names of composers.
Purple means names of other musicians
(singers, performers, conductors etc).
Dark blue means names of non-musician
figures (historic figures, writers, etc).
Orange will mark countries, cities
and other places.
Light blue will mark sentences involving
an interdisciplinary connection to music.
Light red means titles of works
of art which are non-musical, or unrelated to the relevant subject (for
instance, the work of a composer other than the one the screen is about).
MusixCool© By
Nadav Dafni
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