Music Programs for Education

[matthewboh]

I write a monthly newsletter and one of my readers asked for software that would be helpful to teach kids music. Of course, I know about software that plays music - but does anyone have suggestions about FOSS that would help teach music?

[hambone79]

The only one that I can think of off the top of my head is TuxGuitar. It is a Guitar tab editor and player that should prove useful for people learning to play guitar.

You may also want to check out this website: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7606

[hsweet]

There is a lot out there. Here are some I'm familiar with.
Solfege for ear training
Rosegarden for midi/sequencing/basic notation
Lilypond for high quality notation (works well with Rosegarden)
Audacity for basic audio work.

there are a lot more. Check out UbuntuStudio (http://ubuntustudio.org/) if you have a computer with nothing better to do.

[gforster]

Funny, I am on the other side - I am the music teacher and our sys. admin. Currently we are using Windows, but will be migating to linux (edubuntu) over the summer. I would love to find some programs to help me reinforce note-reading, rhythm, composition, etc.

Lilypond/rosegarden are good. I will check out others mentioned here and hope that there is more input out there.