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                     GNU Solfege
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Solfege is an eartraining program for X Window written in python,
using the GTK+ and GNOME libraries. As of 18 June 2000, it is an
official part of the GNU project, http://www.gnu.org

This is a development release, things might be broken. See INSTALL
file if you have problems running or installing Solfege.  Report your
problems to solfege-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

The first versions of Solfege was written in the first quarter
of 1999 when I studied my 4th and last year at Malm Academy of Music
in 1998/99 and was writing a "special subject" (what is the english
term??) about eartraining. In the beginning I was experimenting with
wxWindows, a cross platform C++ GUI toolkit, but luckily, at some
point I found the python bindings for gtk+ and have never looked back.

Eartraining is a big subject with many connections to music theory and
performance of music, so I won't even try to make "a complete
computerbased eartraining course". But I hope someone find this
software useful.

Latest release is available at http://www.solfege.org and
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/solfege. From version 0.6.0 releases with even
number minor version (0.6.0 0.8.0 etc) will be stable and odd version
numbers will be development releases that should work, but might have
bugs making it less usable.

Don't ask me to put Solfege under CVS, because I won't use my private
payed phone line to keep my working version of Solfege in sync with
a CVS server. If I ever get net access at home where I pay only a
monthly fee, this will of course change. If you want to do some
development, please email me to coordinate the work.


Copyright (C) 2000-2001  Tom Cato Amundsen
This if free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/doc/copyright/GPL, with the
solfege source package as the file COPYING and available in the online
help system..  If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Tom Cato Amundsen
tca@gnu.org

