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            "tagline": "Ear training, sight-singing and rhythm practice app",
            "summary": "EarMaster is an ear training app for sight-singing, rhythm and music theory exercises, available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Chromebook. It is a paid app with personal and school subscription options, and the site also offers free tools.",
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                "Free tools on the site, such as an interval chart tool"
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                "Paid app with personal and school subscriptions",
                "Focuses on ear skills more than written theory"
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            "overview": "EarMaster is an ear training app with sight-singing, rhythm and music theory practice. Its product page lists functional ear training, sight-singing, rhythm mastery, jazz and blues workshops and progress tracking, and the site says its exercises adapt to the learner's performance.\n\nThe app is available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Chromebook, and results sync across devices through EarMaster Cloud, which the site also offers for schools. EarMaster is paid, with personal and school subscription options and a license comparison page, and the site also lists free tools such as an Interval Song Chart Tool. It suits musicians who want regular ear practice, and it covers less written theory than the theory sites in this list."
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            "tagline": "Music theory tutorials, exercises, reference and history articles",
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                "Design is plainer than newer tools",
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            "overview": "The tutorials cover basic theory and ear training, and the exercises are interactive, with dictation and analysis tasks. The reference section defines terms, and the article list includes analyses of Bach suites and a daily item on music history.\n\nThe site says it has been on the web for 29 years and posts dated updates, including a 2026 article on harmonies. Its content license is non-commercial with no derivatives, so reuse is limited. teoria.com suits learners who want free exercises with a long reference trail. Its design is plainer than newer tools."
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        "EarMaster: free plan, paid upgrades. teoria.com: free."
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