What’s New in Artusi, Fall 2025

(September 1–October 31, 2025)

This fall, Artusi promises many new features, including the completion of Artusi II: Diatonic Harmony.

Major features include:
  • Instructors can reset their student-view mode work
  • Improvement in printing quality (PDF and paper)
  • Chords marked as part of a sequence have relaxed voice-leading rules
  • Neo-Riemannian N, S, and H operations added.
While we are getting started, check out the list of improvements from Summer 2025 and Spring 2025 including:
  • Figured Bass exercises can have partial scores, requiring particular solutions.
  • Search Artusi textbooks and your own assignments — never misplace an exercise!
  • Artusi: Music Theory Now covers phrases, forms, and embellishments.
And now the Fall 2025 changes:

October 2025

  • (October 28) Tempi can now be specified for custom melodies in melodic dictation
  • (October 22) Instructors can now reset their view as student work
  • (October 22) Music Theory Now II: Assignment 42 (Mediants and other less-used chords) is released
  • (October 21) Bug fix: Instructors who make their own content will now have error messages always appear on screen (sometimes they were scrolled off)
  • (October 20) Music Theory Now II: Lesson 43 (Diatonic Sequences) is released
  • (October 17) Chord Creation and Bass Consonances’ “Stay in Key” option for letting students see how various chords relate in the same key now keeps a consistent clef for all chords in a key.
  • (October 16) Major improvement in printing quality especially of lessons.
  • (October 9) Individual chords and groups of chords can now be marked as part of a sequence which loosens required voice-leading checks.
  • (October 8) Fixed a bug in text/instruction editing where sometimes Cmd-Z/Ctrl-Z would not work for undo.
  • (October 8) Custom notation in instructions/static content and elsewhere now can change the default “Click to Play” to anything else.
  • (October 1) Sight-singing and other recordings are now accelerated to load from global servers near your students making upload times much faster for most users away from the US East Coast.

September 2025

  • (September 30) Music Theory Now II workbooks 37 and 40 are released — all to 42 except 39 are now out.
  • (September 18) Work titles from MusicXML files will now be displayed on dictation exercises
  • (September 17) Sight-reading and sight singing: now notes can be annotated with your own movable-system, whether do-based minor, la-based chromatic minor, or scale degrees. Very useful for early assignments.
  • (September 17) When editing exercises with existing submissions, instructors will only be informed that editing certain fields are dangerous when they go to edit them. This change makes tweaking instructions, etc. much less annoying.
  • (September 15) In dictation the countoff notes glow subtly and in rhythmic dictation notes and dots glow a bit when added to the score. This will be a small improvement for most but a big improvement for colorblind students and instructors.
  • (September 13) Fundamentals Worksheet 3 has improved dictation examples in 4/4 with more consistent use of dots and phrase lengths and removes some overly difficult syncopations.
  • (September 12) Fixed a bug where dictation with “Allow interrupting playback” had a distracting button change right when the dictation started. 
  • (September 10) Piano Keyboards can now play as harpsichords with <artusi-piano instrument=”harpsichord”>.  For now this needs to be done in HTML and with instrument codes. Other useful instruments (ones with natural fade outs) include “acoustic_nylon_guitar”.
  • (September 5) The interface for Roman Numeral analysis is much cleaner without useless buttons (coming from its origin as a type of harmonic dictation)
  • (September 5) Neo-Riemannian exercises now use a wider variety of ranges within the staff (and stop going too far out of the staff as well).
  • (September 5) Instructor documentation is now searchable.
  • (September 4) While we hope bugs never happen, when there is an error, you will see clearer information to help you and us fix the problem faster.
  • (September 3) Artusi IV adds a supplemental Neo-Riemannian S, N, and H operations assignment for courses that cover secondary operations.  Neo-Riemannian randomness is also smarter, avoiding similar questions in a row.
  • (September 3) Instructor Grade Open-ended Questions interface adds features to see the original question and fixes some small bugs.