Today's app is A Jazzy Day app:
A Jazzy Day (http://themelodybook.com/a-jazzy-day/) Fun and interactive story that will teach children about jazz music and the instruments typically used to play jazz; features original illustrations and music as well as sounds from real acoustic instruments; music and animation; interactive audio and visual games include “Find the Instrument” or “Which Instrument Sounds Like This?”; tap on the instruments to hear the sounds; interactive pages; touch the animals or instruments and listen; original jazz Big Band music; audio recordings of real acoustic instruments; children will learn to recognize the sight and sound of a saxophone, trumpet, trombone, bass, vibraphone, and more; animated Big Band arrangement demonstrating the use of the different instruments and sections; colorful illustrations; Read to Me - reads and plays the story automatically; Read it Myself - allows user to read the story at own pace; especially designed for little fingers; music instruments featured in the book are: Bass, Drums, Guitar, Piano, Vibraphone, Trumpet, Trombone, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute, and Clarinet; Conductor’s role; (iOS 5.1 or later.).
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Today's app is the Wagner's Ring Cycle app:
Wagner’s Ring Cycle App (http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/apps/app.asp?ID=NAPP0701B) App aimed at anyone with an interest in Wagner’s monumental operatic achievement Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung); for those acquainted with the cycle or newcomers to it; outline of the work’s leitmotifs woven in a sophisticated web throughout all four operas – Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods); enhanced listening experience; background material; (iOS 5.0 or later). More Classical Composers and Orchestra Apps this week as well as Jazz Apps!
The Wagner Files HD (http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/the-wagner-files-app) Explores storytelling with animations, videos, historical letters, music scores, and photographs; the story of Wagner’s life is told from Hans von Bülow’s point of view starting with the premiere of Rienzi in 1848 until Wagner’s death in Venice in 1883; forty-one page graphic novel illustrated by Flavia Scuderi; 240 animated images; more than sixty minutes of Wagner’s music; twenty-three interactive points that provide access to historical documents such as letters, photographs, or scores; four modes include Graphic Novel Mode, Animation Mode, Animation Mode with Audio Version, and Auto-Play Mode with Audio Version; music visualization of the overture of The Flying Dutchman by Stephen Malinowski; photographs of the most important persons in Wagner’s life including Cosima Wagner, Franz Liszt, King Ludwig II, and Hermann Levi; hand-written historical letters and original scores; rare gramophone records of Wagner’s operas from the 1920s and 1930s; interviews with Wagner experts Eva Rieger, Oliver Hilmes, Simone Young, Katharina Wagner, and others; interactive map with thirty-three stages and background information; trailer of the film The Wagner Files; (iOS 5.0 or later). Today's app is the Great Composers app:
The Great Composers (http://unitedacademymusic.com/ios/#composer) Detailed guide to the lives and works of 227 composers from medieval to the twenty-first century; includes most of the main composers of Western music history; each composer has a high resolution picture, a detailed biography, and four music video links from YouTube; search the composers through a table in historical order or alphabetical order; an outline of Western music history is included; for music lovers, musicians, music students, and teachers; (iOS 6.0 or later). Today's app is the Radio Mozart app:
Radio Mozart (http://www.radiomozart.net/Pages/default.aspx) The concept of Radio Mozart is original, unique, and very simple: Mozart and nothing but Mozart, all the time; includes all of Mozart’s works, combining all genres: symphonies, concertos, serenades, religious music, and opera; hear the most famous compositions of Mozart; launched in 2010, Radio Mozart is available for free on the Internet; station gets more than 40,000 hits per day, for an average listening time of forty-five minutes; one of the most listened to classical radio stations; a community radio station based in Marseille, France; (iOS 6.0 or later). Today's app is the Mozart Interactive app:
Mozart Interactive (http://melodystreet.com/interactive/mozart/) Interactive musical experience where user decides what happens next; includes Melody Street’s host Ethan Bortnick and stringed pal Val Violin playing a duet of Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca; user chooses between Heidi Horn, Timmy Trumpet, and Febe Flute; orchestrate own version and share with family and friends; (iOS 4.0 or later). Today's app is the Masterpieces of Great Composers app:
Masterpieces of Great Composers (http://www.ndapk.com) Includes hundreds of compositions by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin; the selected pieces are representative works that are often performed; includes brief introductions helping readers to analyze and appreciate the music; on-demand download function for users to select tracks; (iOS 4.3 or later). Today's app is the iTunes U app:
iTunes U (https://www.apple.com/itunes/) App gives access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools; large digital catalog of free education content; (iOS 7 or later). Today's app is the Guess Composer Classical Music Quiz app:
Guess Composer Classical Music Quiz (http://guess-composer.ru) Classical music is used in films and ads; most people can sing the tunes, but they don’t know the composer or the title; app game will help listener to know the most famous works of the greatest composers; 100 masterpieces of the classics; over forty classical music remixes; interesting facts about the works; check game results; awards and statistics; for connoisseurs of the classics and for people who have only started to discover them; game rules are simple: listen to the tune and guess its name and composer by choosing one of the four answers; after passing the five tunes listener can analyze mistakes in the results window; (iOS 4.3 or later; Android 2.2 and up). More Classical Music Composers Apps this week!
Binaural Beethoven Pro (http://3hstudios.webnode.com/products/binaural-beethoven-pro/) Relax with Beethoven’s sonatas and binaural beats; includes harmonies with natural sounds and relaxing waves; an inspirational tool; makes sixty original sound combinations; includes three impressive sonatas carefully resounded by ProTools studio software to produce more colorful sounds but with respect to the original moods and dynamics; three sections provide independent sound sources that can be mixed together and saved as presets with related volume levels; first section includes three sonatas; second section provides binaural beats for Sleeping, Learning Aid, and Meditation; third section includes natural sounds; one hour long; (iOS 7.0 or later). |
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