Contents
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Educator’s Foreword .....................................................................................1
MTLC-16 Features ..........................................................................................2
What Is It?....................................................................................................................................................................2
What Is Included?.......................................................................................................................................................3
What Are the Options? ..............................................................................................................................................4
Table of Contents...........................................................................................5
Names of Things and What They Do..............................................................6
Music Lab Installation Guide..........................................................................8
Music Lab Installation ...............................................................................................................................................8
MTLC-16 Installation ................................................................................................................................................9
Test Components .....................................................................................................................................................10
Chapter 1–The Visual Music Tutor Advantage...............................................12
Developing Solid Reading Skills............................................................................................................................12
Putting the Visual Tutor to Work ...........................................................................................................................12
Making Reading More Successful–A Few Tips....................................................................................................13
PREVIEW playing .........................................................................................................................................13
SLOW playing................................................................................................................................................13
OUTLINE playing—selectively reading the entire score while the SMF is playing............................13
SHADOW playing—“air play” reading of the piece while the SMF is playing...................................13
PARALLEL SIGHTREADING methods—The Best Readers are Frequent Readers............................14
Chapter 2–Surviving Your First Class............................................................15
Survival Checklist–Before the Class ......................................................................................................................15
The Class....................................................................................................................................................................16
Chapter 3–Operating the MTLC-16 ...............................................................19
Chapter 4–Operating the Virtual MTLC-16....................................................27
Virtual Lab Control ..................................................................................................................................................27
Classroom Management..........................................................................................................................................30
Gradebook.................................................................................................................................................................31
Hardware Detection.................................................................................................................................................32
Chapter 5–Operating the V-MT1 (Visual Music Tutor)....................................33
Annotated Group Teaching Bibliography .....................................................36
Articles .......................................................................................................................................................................36
Books ..........................................................................................................................................................................38
Dissertations and Theses.........................................................................................................................................41
Additional References..............................................................................................................................................42
Appendix....................................................................................................43
Installing the USB MIDISport Interface ................................................................................................................43
Warranty ....................................................................................................................................................................45