Tune Recognition

Do you pride yourself on knowing heaps of tunes from the classical, popular, and folk traditions?  If so, here is your opportunity to test your skills.

As soon as you open this screen, the computer plays a tune, chosen at random from the Musical Discovery database.  It also displays a list of 24 titles of tunes with their composers, also chosen at random from the database, but including the one being played.   Your task is to click on the name of the tune being played.  If you get it right, a smiley face will appear at bottom left of the screen, with a confirmation message. If you get it wrong, a sad face appears. The tune keeps playing, so you can try again as often as you wish.

At top right there is a score card, which counts your right and wrong answers. It only marks you on your first attempt at any tune. You can try again as many times as you like if you are getting it wrong, but if you finally get the right answer, this will not count in your total of right answers, nor will the subsequent wrong answers count in your wrong total.

Across the bottom of the screen there are five buttons, after the two learning guide navigation buttons.. Click the green button Give me a new tune   to try another tune. Click the red button to stop the tune being played. Click the blue button to hear the most recent tune played over again.   If you get completely stuck, click the yellow button to find out the answer. The name and composer will appear at the foot of the screen. Lastly there is a pink Help button, or else you can bring up the help screen at any time by hitting the F1 key.


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