Year of production: 2002

Languages: Russian, Tatar, English

This program presents Tatar national musical culture and its connections with folklore and professional music of other nations in Russian Federation, Western European countries and the Orient. The CD contains of text in Russian, Tatar and English with corresponding playable voice recordings, video, audio recordings (folklore, modifications of national melodies, fragments from professional music), photographs, illustrations, etc. The latest modern programming tools were used in creation of the program, including DirectX® with own algorithms for extending the abilities of multimedia, up-to-date filing and compression formats (MPEG-4, MP-3, JPEG, etc.). Program uses all computer’s hardware features available with optimized for processors Pentium II – Pentium IV. Great attention was paid on designing 3D intuitively plain interface. The CD has update and extension features.
The CD contains 11 chapters with more than 100 text pages, including voice recordings in English, Tatar and Russian; more than 150 illustrations, photographs and images; about 1,5 h. of video; more than 7 h. of music; about 20 3D scenes that are a part of intuitively plain interface.

Pentium-compatible processor, 300 Mhz (recommended 600 Mhz), 32Mb (recommended 128 Mb) RAM, CD-ROM, DirectX-compatible audio and video cards, Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP

• Kazan State University