Jalmus is a free, open source music education software helping the musicians, specially pianists, to improve their sight-reading. You can train to read music with both exercises on notes or rhythms.
Jalmus is developed in Java and so available on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Jalmus is a multilingual software supporting - English, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish and German : help us to translate it in your language.
The main feature added in this version is a system to create a set of exercices by using an XML file.
This release contains twelve lessons only translated in french and english. You can create your own lessons files or translate the provided lessons. Please send your files to crichard@jalmus.net to add them in next release.
If you use and appreciate Jalmus, please help me to translate, the documentation (especially Deutsch and Italiano) or the Website.
Change log :
new system of lessons
possibility to transpose little keyboards in MIDI preferences
bug fixed when you modify parameters before selecting the game
game paused when MIDI preferences selected
bug fixed for random accidentals in C Major
The new release could be dowloaded here. It’s a beta version with probably some bugs. So please report them on users mailing list.
The main feature added in this version is a sytem to create a set of levels by using an XML file. . The beta version contains three lessons for testing. You can create your own files but the syntax available on wiki could be changed in the final release.
Final release of version 1.1
added "Pause option" by using key "P"
corrected turkish translation
Please contact me to report bugs.
First, I would like to wish you an Happy New Year.
New release 1.1 RC1 was available here.
New "Learning game" for Note Reading.
New language available : Turkish. Thanks to Özgür Basol.
System to select range of notes for "Note Reading" was improved.
This project only requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4 and above to run. Get it for free at http://www.java.com
Dowload install jar file :
| or at Berlios.de |
Execute it by :
double click the jar file or
type "java -jar installjalmus.jar" from the command line
Jalmus is 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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This license gives you the permission to modify, copy, distribute, and sell Jalmus, as long as the code you distribute is available under the GNU General Public License. If you have questions, please contact us.