About
Partwise marks four part harmony the way a teacher marks it: on the staff, while you write. You are given a bass line and its figures, and you place soprano, alto and tenor by dragging noteheads. Every time a note moves, the whole page is checked again and every fault is drawn where it happens. Parallel fifths and octaves appear as a bar across each of the two intervals, joined so you can see at a glance that they are parallel. A doubled leading tone is circled. A seventh that failed to fall, a voice out of its range, two voices crossed or spaced more than an octave apart: each is marked on the note that caused it, and underneath the staff is the rule that broke and one sentence on why it is a rule. Partwise contains a solver that realizes any exercise itself, under the same rules it marks you with, and that is what makes the marking trustworthy rather than merely opinionated. It never sets an exercise it cannot complete, and it never shows an answer it would itself mark wrong. Ask for a hint and it points at one note worth moving. Ask for the answer and it shows a realization that breaks nothing, which is one of many rather than the only one. It thinks in letters and accidentals rather than piano keys, because a diminished fifth may move to a perfect fifth and a perfect fifth may not, and only the spelling tells you which one you wrote: drag a voice onto a line the chord uses and it takes the chord's own spelling, so the dominant of A minor gives you G sharp without being asked. Forty two exercises in six units, from root position triads through first inversion, six four chords, sevenths and minor keys to secondary dominants, in real keys from C major to F minor. There is no account, no server, no advertising and no tracking, and it works with the phone in aeroplane mode.
Features
- Every fault drawn on the staff, the instant the note moves
- Parallel fifths and octaves marked the way a teacher marks them
- The rule that broke, and one sentence on why it is a rule
- A solver that realizes any exercise under the rules it marks you with
- Hints that point at a note to move, never at the answer
- Chords spelled properly: G sharp and A flat are different notes
- 42 exercises in six units, from root position triads to secondary dominants
- Works entirely offline, with no account and no adverts