The Note Quiz

This quiz game aims to help the player to learn the notes on the musical stave. Each quiz has 10 levels, and 20 questions are asked at each level. A level is locked out once the player has achieved 20/20 three times at that level for that quiz, making the player progress to another (harder) level.

I originally wrote the Note Quiz for my (then) 7-year-old son who struggled to identify notes on the page, thus making sight-reading very difficult for him when playing the violin or singing. He has found this quiz a big help, and even enjoys locking out levels!

The premise is very simple, you are shown 20 notes, and you have to identify them in the available time. As the levels go up, the time given goes down. With the exception of the web or 8-bit ROM versions, your progress is recorded between sessions.

Four clefs are available - Treble, Alto, Tenor and Bass. The range of notes quizzed is, in the Treble clef, the range of a violin's open G string to 4th finger on the E string in third position, or G3-D6. The other clefs have a similar range, Alto clef A2-E5, the Tenor clef F2-C5 and Bass clef B1-F4. Optionally the note being quizzed will be played, mostly at the correct pitch, but sometimes up an octave where playing at the correct pitch is not available on the hardware or would make your computer sound flatulent.

The Note Quiz is available for:

Microsoft Windows 7 or later
All platforms supported by Matrix Brandy
All platforms supported by BBCSDL
Android 4 or later (sideload required)
Acorn RISC OS 2 or later
Acorn BBC Micro model B, Electron, Master or Compact:
- DFS 40T disc image
- ADFS L-format disc image
- Standard ROMFS image
- Auto-booting ROMFS image (for a cartridge)
...or run it in your browser! (via BBCSDL)

On the Acorn 8-bit machines, it may run in black & white if PAGE is too high and Shadow RAM is not available - it must be no higher than &1900 to run in colour. On the Electron without the Slogger Master RAM Board expansion or co-processor, it will always run in black & white as its colour mode is too slow. Note that the ROMFS builds do not run on the Electron with an active second processor.

The Note Quiz is under active development - please report any issues on this Distillery thread or this Stardot thread.