What’s new in Artusi for Spring 2025

(February 1–May 30, 2025)

Spring courses are coming to an end, but Artusi continues to be active to bring improvements for immediate use and for Summer/Fall terms! Here are our biggest highlights.
  • Unit 5 of Artusi: Music Theory Now is being released, covering phrases, small forms, and embellishments.
  • You can now leave comments on student work from the Review Questions page of the gradebook.
  • Form diagrams can now be created and edited from text editors in assignments and exercises (learn more)
  • A new Roman numeral editor makes it easier to compose Chord Progression exercises.
  • And so much more listed below!
  For our biggest features before Feburary 2025, check out the Recap of Fall 2024/January 2025 which includes:
  • Unit 4 of Artusi: Music Theory Now has been released, covering the first 6 Lessons of Theory II (Dominant Harmony).
  • Students can choose their own Roman numerals in selected Chord Progression exercises.
  • Interactive form diagrams are coming soon to instructors!
  • Fill in the Blank and Open-Ended Questions now support grading rubrics.

Here’s everything significant we’ve been up to:

Throughout Spring

  • Newly Revamped Theory II curriculum has been released, currently combining legacy assignments with brand new assignments and lessons from Music Theory Now: Volume 2.

In May 2025

  • (May 30) From the assignment editor you can now easily update the layout and hierarchy of exercises using left and right arrow key shortcuts.
  • (May 24) A brand new Roman numeral editor makes it easier to compose Chord Progression exercises.
  • (May 16) Lessons from Music Theory Now: Volume I are now publicly available without an Artusi account. (Create an account to access worksheets and other materials.)
  • (May 8) When specifying uneditable notes for chord progression exercises, clicking a note that has already been selected will deselect it (rendering the note editable again).
  • (May 1) The Instructor Manual is now available to logged-out visitors.
  • (May 1) You can now leave comments on student work from the Review Questions page of the gradebook.

In April 2025

  • (April 30) Changed the number of questions generated by species exercises to a more reasonable number. (Some exercises had too many questions; others too few.)
  • (April 15) Hitting the “Enter” key to close a popup now performs whichever action is least destructive. In some cases a glow around the border of a button indicates which button will be triggered by hitting Enter.
  • (April 3) Neo-Riemannian exercises now support N, S, and H operations (in addition to the existing L, R, and P operations).

In March 2025

  • (March 18) Always show double accidentals in the exercise toolbar for chord progressions with more advanced keys (5 sharps/flats or more), and for chord progressions where students are required to provide Roman numerals.
  • (March 14) Form diagrams can now be created and edited from text editors in assignments and exercises (learn more)
  • (March 12) Tiny Notation examples that play a chord context before the example now voice the chord context correctly and consistently for all keys.
  • (March 5) Improvements to the interval table that is used to customize interval exercises.

In February 2025

  • (February 28) Transpose Melody, Embellishing Tone Creation, and Fix Wrong Notes in a Melody: editing one note that is tied to others now causes all notes in the tie to change.
  • (February 27) Open-ended Questions exercises now vary the default instruction text depending on how the answer input size is configured.
  • (February 27) For chord progression exercises where students can provide their own Roman numerals: a new option prevents students from repeating Roman numerals.
  • (February 27) Students are prevented from specifying their own “seed” in assignments that randomly generate questions.
  • (February 21) Species exercises: more settings can now be configured after students have submitted work. (Most settings become disabled after receiving student submissions.)
  • (February 21) Annotate An Image: input box toolbars in the exercise editor are now translucent to prevent them from obscuring image content.
  • (February 20) Generic Sight Reading exercises were renamed to “Audio Recording Upload”
  • (February 19) Students can now leave comments on their submission in File Upload exercises. Comments can be optional, required, or forbidden. The file upload itself can also be optional when students leave a comment.
  • (February 13) Warn students when attempting to use a Bookstore code as an Enrollment code, and direct them to the right place.
  • (February 13) Interval input in species exercises now displays a numeric keyboard by default on mobile.
  • (February 13) Reviewed Questions stick around for a while during instructor review so that mistakes can easily be corrected.
  • (February 11) Display ✓/✗ marks on annotated image exercises viewed in the Review Questions area of the gradebook.
Last updated: May 30, 2025