Music Master is a utility designed to help you write and edit a tune displayed in hi-res in standard musical notation. All options are selected from the keyboard, and as there are 34 possible functions, things are rather confusing to start off with.

This is not helped by the manual which contains numerous printing errors in the table that tells you which keys to press to play each tone.

After a little experimentation, the key layout becomes familiar, and entering a tune becomes a lot easier. It is then that the shortcomings of the program are revealed.

For a start, the program uses the play command and so only one note can be played at a time. This seriously limits the usefulness of the program - it does not have much educational value, and frankly it does not expand the Dragon's music potential at all for the programmer.

For the musician, several things about this program make it irritating to use.

Firstly, no sharps of flats symbols that raise or lower the pitch of a note, are displayed on the stave; bar lines cannot be displayed, and there is no facility to dump the music to a printer - a feature that might have made this program worthwhile.

To give the author his due, Music Master is very professional, and it does everything the manual says it does, but it is a pity that a little more thought had not gone into the program at the design stage.