Focus On Sound - 3 Year 61-250 User Licence (FOSUK-3-250)

The highly popular cloud based music resource for up to 250 students (3 year subscription).

Focus on Sound is an exciting music education digital encyclopedia for Windows®, Apple®Mac, tablets and smartphones. It develops students’ listening and composing skills as well as enhancing their general musical knowledge.

Focus on Sound contains two multimedia software products: Instruments and Sound Words. Developed for students aged 9 to 18, the Instruments section introduces around 200 musical instruments, voices and groups - in classical, jazz, rock, folk and world music.

Sound Words has more than 50 topic areas covering harmony, rhythm, structure, melody, instrumental techniques, technology, music reading and music theory. Written by music education software specialist Dr. Simon Foxall, an experienced music director and senior examiner.

Students have access to Focus on Sound anywhere they have an internet connection, enabling them to work from home, computer lab, or the library. This programme works on PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and smartphones, etc. Teachers can choose to use the class-presentation mode, or allow students to work independently. It provides expert guidance on which instruments students would be best suited to learn, with information on cost, difficulty and suitability.

Please note: This software is supplied, via email, as a digital download. 

For more advice and queries, email [email protected] , or ring us on 01752 313300.

System requirements: 

The program runs on the web. Most browsers will be fine, including all recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 11, Edge and Safari. From 12th January 2016 we (and Microsoft) ceased support for Internet Explorer 10 and earlier. 

We support Windows 7 and later, though we recommend Windows 10. 

We'd recommend Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard" or more recent - with at least version 5 of Safari. The excellent Chrome browser in its latest version works well with earlier Mac computers and is to be preferred to older versions of Safari. 

We support iOS versions 8 and above. 

Contact us if you are not sure about whether your system will run our programs.

The program requires a broadband internet connection. We recommend a speed of at least 2 Mbs. Average broadband speed in the US is around 12 Mbs. In the UK it's 23 Mbs.