There are two Hypersense documents which comprise this package:
16thCenturyMusic.sense
16thCenturyMusicHelp.sense
16thCenturyMusic.sense is quite large (when uncompressed approx 12.2MB) as it contains several sound examples.
About the package ...
This package is written for the Music Department of the University of Glasgow. It's the first of a series in a government-funded project to evaluate the use of computer based learning in higher education.
The courseware is designed for 1st year undergraduate music specialists as a backup resource to lectures and tutorials in Integrated Musicianship. This target audience will know quite a bit about 16th century music, but may have no previous computer experience.
The sound examples use a synthesised piano sound - completely unstylish for 16th-century vocal music, but it's what the students are used to!
How it is put together ...
The music notation examples were cobbled together as at the time I didn't have a music notation package that would run on our NeXTs. So the examples were done by using characters from a Windows music font imported as .TIFF files and then pasted in.
I'm no programmer - as will be evident to anyone who has a look at the code, but find HyperSense easy to use. Any suggestions on how to code it better very welcome!
Final adjustments before letting the package loose on all the students will be to disable some of the Hypersense menus to prevent the students hacking it!
