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Introducing Dissonance to Students?

On December 12, 2025, Paul Sheftel and George Litterst shared their insights into a musical subject that often bewilders students. Click here for the digital handout!

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Dissonance is one of the great expressive elements of Western music, yet students often recoil when they confront it. This reaction is especially common when they are unfamiliar with a particular musical style or when they are learning a piece slowly, hearing dissonance as an isolated event rather than as part of the musical flow.

This session invites you to explore the many categories of dissonance and how each one shapes musical motion. The presenters examine dissonance as a living, audible experience to be embraced, using clear examples drawn from CyberConservatory publications available in SuperScore on the iPad.

SuperScore on the iPad brings the printed notation to life with embedded performances and flexible playback controls. By hearing exactly what the score shows—and by isolating parts, adjusting tempo, and studying individual lines—students can immerse themselves in the music interactively. This hands-on engagement transforms what can seem like an intimidating subject into a vivid and accessible exploration of how music breathes, leans, and resolves.

Musical examples are further illustrated using the Classroom Maestro app for Mac and PC.

Will there be SuperScore music in your stocking this year?

George Litterst was the host for this fun, annual round-up of SuperScore music for the Christmas • Winter • Holiday season that you can use on your iPad!

The SuperScore Music app is a free download from the App Store on the iPad and is your source for:

• piano solos
• student-teacher duets
• equal-part duets
• keyboard ensembles
• music with outstanding backing tracks

Students, teachers, and hobbyists of all playing levels from beginners to advanced will enjoy:

• seasonal inspirations
• traditional carols
• pop favorites

Interactive Strategies and Solutions for Improving Music Reading

Paul Sheftel and George Litterst presented this exploration of technology-enhanced approaches to music reading on October 24, 2025. The session covered:

• insights from neuroscience
• development of motor patterns
• freedom from micro decision-making
• pattern identification
• tools for developing reading skills at home

In particular, this webinar demonstrated method material, exercises, and pattern-based repertoire available in SuperScore that support the development of facile reading.

SuperScore is a free download from the App Store on the iPad! The materials presented here are available for sale within the app from CyberConservatory and Carl Fischer.

Classroom Maestro was also used in this webinar and is available for Mac and PC from TimeWarp Technologies (timewarptech.com).

Click here to view Paul’s handout called Using SuperScore to Develop Fluent Reading Skills.

Debussy’s “Petite Suite” 135 Years Later—a New Interactive Edition in SuperScore!

This webinar presents a new, interactive edition of this marvelous piece for piano 4-hands, available in SuperScore on the iPad.

Enjoy:
• the history of this gorgeous work
• interactive play-along opportunities
• Frank Pittman’s extraordinary performance of both parts

This webinar was presented on May 8, 2023 by Frank Pittman and George F. Litterst, sponsored by TimeWarp Technologies.

Getting Acquainted with Ignatius Sancho

The story of Ignatius Sancho is quite remarkable. Born on a slave ship as it was headed to South America, Sancho became an orphan within a year. At the age of two, he was taken to Greenwich, England where he grew up as a slave to three unmarried sisters.

Despite the odds, Sancho became educated, achieved his freedom, became a property owner, and was the first known person of African descent to vote in a British parliamentary election. Although he was primarily known as a business man and a passionate advocate for the abolition of slavery, he was also a composer, writing in the popular dance idioms of the time.

This webinar presents the life and times of Ignatius Sancho as well as his Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779. Set for the Harpsichord. These pieces constitute a fun collection of keyboard music similar in difficulty to the easier pieces of the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook. 

This collection has been produced in an interactive urtext edition by George F. Litterst, published in SuperScore Music on the iPad, complete with both harpsichord and piano performances.

Here is a link to the handout described in the presentation: Getting Acquainted with Ignatius Sancho