Credits

Music

These melodies are in the public domain in the United States: they were published before 1931, or are traditional. The arrangements, the rhythm songs and the other music in the course were written for PerfectMyMusic.

• All My Little Ducklings (Alle meine Entchen) — German children’s song (traditional)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• All the Birds Are Here (Alle Vögel sind schon da) — German folk songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3
• Alouette — Traditional (French-Canadian)Level 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3
• Amazing Grace — TraditionalLesson 2.9 · Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• The Ash Grove — Traditional (Welsh)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Au clair de la lune — Traditional (French)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Auld Lang Syne — Traditional (Scottish)Level 2 Midterm 2 and final exam
• Bake, Bake a Cake (Backe, backe Kuchen) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 3
• A Bird Came Flying (Kommt ein Vogel geflogen) — German folk songLevel 2 Midterm 3 and final exam
• Bobby Shafto — Traditional (English)Level 2 listening questions
• Buzz, Buzz, Buzz (Summ, summ, summ) — Bohemian folk tuneLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Coin, Coin, Off You Go (Taler, Taler, du musst wandern) — German children’s game songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3
• Cuckoo (Kuckuck, Kuckuck, ruft’s aus dem Wald) — Austrian folk tuneLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• The Cuckoo and the Donkey (Der Kuckuck und der Esel) — Carl Friedrich ZelterLevel 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3
• Eine kleine Nachtmusik, first theme — Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLevel 2 listening questions
• Fox, You Stole the Goose (Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen) — German folk songLevel 2 Midterm 2, Midterm 3 and final exam review
• Frère Jacques — Traditional (French)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Für Elise — Ludwig van BeethovenLevel 3 Midterm 1
• Green, Green, Green (Grün, grün, grün sind alle meine Kleider) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3 review
• Greensleeves — TraditionalLevel 3 Midterm 1 review
• Hot Cross Buns (the old English street cry) — Traditional (English)Level 2 Midterm 3 and final exam
• A Hunter from the Palatinate (Ein Jäger aus Kurpfalz) — German folk songLevel 2 final exam
• If I Were a Little Bird (Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär) — German folk songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and final exam
• In March the Farmer (Im Märzen der Bauer) — German folk songLevel 2 Midterm 2, Midterm 3 review and final exam
• In the Hall of the Mountain King — Edvard GriegLevel 3 Midterm 1
• Jingle Bells (the chorus) — James Lord PierpontLevel 2 Midterm 2 review, Midterm 3 and final exam
• Lavender’s Blue — Traditional (English)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Lightly Row (Hänschen klein) — German folk tuneLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Little Brother, Come Dance with Me (Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir) — German folk dance songLevel 2 Midterm 3 and final exam
• Little Hansel (Spannenlanger Hansel) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 2 review, Midterm 3 and final exam
• Little Hare in the Hollow (Häschen in der Grube) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3 review
• Little Snowflake (Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and final exam
• London Bridge Is Falling Down — TraditionalLessons 2.11 and 2.12 · Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Long, Long Ago — Thomas Haynes BaylyLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Lullaby (Wiegenlied), Op. 49 No. 4 — Johannes BrahmsLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Mary Had a Little Lamb — TraditionalLevel 2 final exam
• Melody, Op. 68 No. 1 (Album for the Young) — Robert SchumannLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Michael, Row the Boat Ashore — TraditionalLevel 2 Midterm 2 and final exam review
• Minuet in G — Christian PetzoldLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Minuet in G minor (BWV Anh. 115) — Christian PetzoldLevel 3 Midterm 1
• My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean — TraditionalLevel 2 Midterm 2 and final exam
• Ode to Joy (from Symphony No. 9) — Ludwig van BeethovenLesson 2.13 · Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm — TraditionalLevel 2 Midterm 3 and final exam
• On the Wall, on the Lookout (Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3
• Oranges and Lemons — Traditional (English)Level 2 Midterm 2 and Midterm 3
• Red River Valley — Traditional (North American)Level 2 listening questions
• Simple Gifts — Joseph BrackettLesson 2.20
• Skákal pes — Czech folk song (traditional)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Skip to My Lou — Traditional (American)Lesson 2.15
• Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 1 — Muzio ClementiLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Sur le pont d’Avignon — Traditional (French)Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Symphony No. 9 (“Great”), opening theme — Franz SchubertLevel 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1 review
• Symphony No. 94 (“Surprise”), second movement — Joseph HaydnLesson 2.15 · Level 2 listening questions
• There Was a Mother (Es war eine Mutter) — German children’s songLevel 2 Midterm 2 review, Midterm 3 and final exam
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star — TraditionalLesson 2.10 · Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1
• Who Has the Prettiest Lambs? (Wer hat die schönsten Schäfchen) — German children’s songLevel 2 final exam
• Yankee Doodle — TraditionalLesson 2.14 · Level 2 listening questions · Level 3 Midterm 1

Written for PerfectMyMusic

• Rhythm songs 1 to 10, in the Level 2 final exam (songs 1 to 8) and its review (songs 9 and 10)
• March, Song and Waltz, in Lesson 2.15
• The music of Lessons 2.16 to 2.19, and of Lesson 2.20 apart from Simple Gifts
• Swallow, Rising Tide, Footsteps and Deep Well, in Lesson 3.6
• Every arrangement on this page: the tunes moved into C, and in Level 3 written with a sharp or a flat on every note

Sounds

• Piano: Splendid Grand PianoThe piano in every question that plays music, and in the lessons’ live examples.Recordings by Akai, prepared by kinwie (sfzinstruments). Public domain (released by Akai). Played through smplr (see Software). github.com/sfzinstruments/SplendidGrandPiano
• Piano: Salamander Grand Piano V3The piano in the recorded examples of Lessons 2.9 to 2.20 and of the Level 3 lessons.Alexander Holm. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Adapted: pitch-shifted, level-adjusted, shortened and mixed into the examples. archive.org/details/SalamanderGrandPianoV3
• Flute, violin and trombone: VSCO 2 Community EditionThe flute, violin and trombone in Lessons 2.11, 2.12 and 2.18 to 2.20, and the flute in one Level 2 listening question.Versilian Studios, through tonejs-instruments by Nicholas Brosowsky. CC0 1.0, a public domain dedication. tonejs-instruments labels its collection Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, so it is credited both ways. Adapted: tuned, level-adjusted, shortened and joined into the examples. github.com/sgossner/VSCO-2-CE and github.com/nbrosowsky/tonejs-instruments
• Cello: “real cello notes”The cello in Lessons 2.18 to 2.20 (the choir’s tenor and bass).flcellogrl, on Freesound, through tonejs-instruments. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Adapted: tuned, level-adjusted and joined into the examples. freesound.org/people/flcellogrl/packs/12408/
• The wood block, the clicks and the app’s small soundsThe count-in, the click under the music, and the sounds for a right answer, a wrong one and a pass.Made by PerfectMyMusic’s own code; nothing is recorded.

Notation and fonts

• VerovioEngraves every staff, note and marking in the course.Its license is under Software.
• BravuraThe music font of the questions and of each unit’s picture.Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• LeipzigThe music font of the lessons.Etienne Darbellay and Jean-François Marti, developed further by the Verovio project. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• NunitoThe words on every screen.The Nunito Project Authors. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Nunito SansSome of the words in the lessons.The Nunito Sans Project Authors. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• The sharp, flat and natural signs in wordsThe ♯ ♭ ♮ inside a sentence.Drawn for PerfectMyMusic.

Software

The programs the course’s screens load, each under its own license.

• Verovio 6.2.0, by Laurent Pugin and others (RISM Digital Center). GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 or later. www.verovio.org
• smplr 1.0.0, by danigb. MIT License. github.com/danigb/smplr
• React 18.3.1, by Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. MIT License. react.dev
• React DOM 18.3.1, by Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. MIT License. react.dev
• Babel 7.29.0, by the Babel project. MIT License. babeljs.io
• Firebase JavaScript SDK 10.14.1, by Google. Apache License 2.0. firebase.google.com
• jsPDF 4.2.1, by James Hall, yWorks GmbH and contributors. MIT License. github.com/MrRio/jsPDF

Pictures

The photographs on the sign-in and setup screens, the badge pictures and the certificate’s seal were made for PerfectMyMusic with AI image tools. The people in the photographs are not real people.

The picture on each unit’s tile is drawn for PerfectMyMusic, with notes from the Bravura font.

Narration

The lessons and videos are narrated by an AI voice made with Articulate Rise.