What is Sharpmony?
Sharpmony is the first tool based on Artificial Intelligence to help harmony students and their teachers. Using the latest AI technologies developed at the University of Extremadura, it integrates a mobile application and a web portal that will allow the student to review classical harmony exercises (SATB).
On the other hand, harmony teachers will be able to manage their students, create and assign exercises to groups of students, and check their daily work, with a history of corrections they receive online.
During the 2019/2020 academic year, the professional music conservatories "Esteban Sánchez" of Mérida, and "Luis Gordillo" of Montijo have collaborated with their students in the "alpha" testing process, with 500 exercises performed with Sharpmony and corrected automatically.
In the course 2020/2021 Sharpmony is already available for any conservatory interested in using it
What controls does Sharpmony have to review a harmony exercise?
Available error controls:
- Overlapping voices
- Interval wider than the 10th among voices
- Parallel octaves
- Parallel fifths
- Wrong chord or chord not in the key
- Quintas/Octavas indirectas - Contrapunto
- Disonancias armónica en tiempos fuerte y débil - Contrapunto
- Voice ranges
- Disonancias melódicas
- False relation
- Modo menor melódico permitido - Detección movimientos menor melódicos incorrectos.
- Incorrect resolution 7th/9th
- Wrong unisone movement
- Direct fifths or octaves
- Wrong movement of leading tone
- Missing third in a chord
- Wrong note dupplication
- Wrong key modulation
- Cifrado o grado incorrecto en Coral
- Parallel Sixth Progression - Counterpoint
- Serie de Sextas - Contrapunto
- Dissonant Interval - Counterpoint
- Duplicated note in the same voice - Counterpoint
- Melodic Leap - Counterpoint
- Unísono transcurso ejercicio o llegada con nota de paso disonante - Contrapunto
- Counterpoint Begining and Ending - Counterpoint
- Final progression - Counterpoint
- Arpeggio - Counterpoint
- Wrong note movement - Third species counterpoint
- Contrapunto 5ª especie permitido - Contrapunto
Other options available:
- Augmented Sixth and Neapolitan Sixth chords
- Indirect resolution of leading tone
- Progressions
- Séptimas de Prolongación, series de séptima y Dominante
- Secondary Dominants allowed
- Dominant 11th chord
- Acordes IIb5, bIV y bVII prestados del modo menor
- Acordes SUS4 permitidos
For more information on the harmonic rules that Sharpmony incorporates, click here.
What institutions use Sharpmony?
The following academic institutions are currently using Sharpmony:
- Artes Liberales A. C. (Mexico)
- CEMU Escola Estudio (Spain)
- CMUS Profesional de Lalín (Spain)
- CMUS Vigo (Spain)
- Conservatori Professional de Música "Mestre Feliu de Benicarló" (Spain)
- Conservatorio Calasancio de Música y Danza (Spain)
- Conservatorio de Música "Carlos Afanador Real" (Venezuela)
- Conservatorio Jesús de Monasterio (Spain)
- Conservatorio Profesional de Música "Esteban Sánchez" de Mérida (Spain)
- Conservatorio Profesional de Música "Jerónimo Meseguer" (Spain)
- Conservatorio Profesional de Música "Luis Gordillo" de Montijo (Spain)
- Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Valencia (Spain)
- Conservatorio Profesional de Música Manuel Quiroga (Spain)
- Conservatorio Superior de Vigo (Spain)
- Escuela de Bellas Artes de Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico)
- Escuela de Bellas Artes Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado (El Salvador)
- Escuela Superior de Musica ISA (Argentina)
- IES Ruta de la Plata (Spain)
- ISEAM Domingo Zipoli (Argentina)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua - Managua (Nicaragua)
- UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA (PORTUGAL)
And finally, over 15,648 exercises have been reviewed in Sharpmony!
Sharpmony was conceived and created by:
- Project management and A.I. development: Francisco Fernández de Vega
- Web and Apps Development: Jorge Alvarado Díaz
They have collaborated in the development of Sharpmony:
- Elia Pacioni