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Minuet, developed by KDE e.V., is an open-source music education application designed to sharpen aural skills through interactive ear-training drills. Targeting students, teachers, and self-learners, the program presents a sequenced curriculum that covers interval recognition, chord identification, scale detection, rhythmic dictation, and harmonic progressions, automatically generating new musical examples for virtually unlimited practice. Users can customize exercise parameters such as tempo, instrument timbre, and difficulty level, while real-time visual feedback and statistical tracking help monitor improvement over time. The interface integrates cleanly with the KDE desktop environment but runs equally well on other Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS, making it suitable for classroom projection, private studio work, or home study. Because exercises are self-contained and require only basic audio hardware, Minuet serves music-theory courses, band programs, choir rehearsals, and individual instrumental practice without additional licensing costs. The current stable release, version 0.4.0.260370, refines playback timing, expands the chord library, and introduces touch-friendly navigation for convertible laptops and tablets; this is the first numbered version listed in the catalog, indicating a focused initial feature set that nonetheless covers the core disciplines of musicianship training. By combining algorithmic composition with pedagogical structure, the software bridges the gap between elementary pitch-matching games and advanced computer-assisted instruction suites, offering educators a lightweight yet rigorous tool for building students’ inner hearing. Minuet is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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