New Functions Added to Beethoven App: Print, Email and Share

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Magnus Orr

New functions have recently been added to Momedia’s popular sheet music app, Beethoven Sonatas. Many users have requested the ability to share music with fellow musicians. This function is included in the latest update of Beethoven Sonatas available on iTunes. Together with the new feature to print – the sheet music app is useful for teachers who would like to print music for pupils.

Momedia continue to lead the way in sheet music apps introducing new functions to help enjoy and learn music! Beethoven Sonatas – Sheet Music App.

Momedia develop Piano Composers Series with Études by Chopin

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Magnus Orr

Building on our World Piano Composers Series we are pleased to launch a new app featuring Chopin’s Études. The app with 143 pages of sheet music, viewable full screen in either landscape or portrait mode includes: Op.10, Op.25, 3 Nouvelles études, B.130 and Preludes, Op.28.

An étude (French for study) is an instrumental musical composition, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano.

Chopin Études sheet music app on iTunes

New Sheet Music App Celebrates Mozart’s Piano Music

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Magnus Orr

Build your piano sheet music library with this collection of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Use your iPad or iPhone as a sheet music reader!

Available on iTunes

Features:

Music scores contained within the app – no further downloads required.
Excellent viewing with full page sheet music browser.
  Easy page turn with one swipe.
Zoom in either landscape or portrait mode.
  Universal app works on iPhone or iPad.
Uses high resolution images for excellent clarity.
Create your own repertoire list – for quick access.
App contains over 830 pages of sheet music!

Rather than download each piece – the sheet music is indexed and embedded within the app – so you spend less time sorting music and more time playing!     Music is displayed full screen with ‘zoom’ and ‘page swipe’ – to enlarge detail and change pages. Say goodbye to shifting through dusty manuscripts – with one tap scores are brilliantly displayed onscreen.   Continue reading →

New Pipe Tunes: Calling all Composers!

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Magnus Orr

A new app featuring new tunes from composers around the World

Building on the first two piping apps that feature a range of traditional tunes, Magnus Orr is currently compiling a new ‘Pipe Tunes’ app featuring contemporary tunes.

The app will feature a small number of tunes from each composer – if players like what they hear they can buy more by unlocking more tunes (in-app purchase) from that composer within the app.

The app will be updated on a regular basis. Composers can add more tunes and users of the app can build-up a library of contemporary pipe tunes.

Each tune will be supported by composer’s notes and MP3 recording (where available).

Royalties will be paid to composers on a monthly basis. This will be based on the number of tunes you have available in the app and the number of extra tunes that users buy.

If you would like to provide some tunes for this project please contact: Magnus Orr

Tunes can be added at anytime to the collection. These will appear in the next update. The app will be available world-wide on iTunes for both iPad and iPhone users and will be promoted at major piping events.

Pipe tune apps on iTunes: Pipefest 1 / Pipefest 2

New App: Beethoven Sonatas

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Momedia

World’s Finest Piano Composers
Build your sheet music library with this fantastic collection of piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven. Use your iPad or iPhone as a sheet music reader!

Beethoven Sonatas: Available on iTunes

Features:
• Music scores contained within the app – no further downloads required.
• Excellent viewing with full page sheet music browser.
• Easy page turn with one swipe.
• Zoom in either landscape or portrait mode.
• Universal app works on iPhone or iPad.
• Uses high resolution images for excellent clarity.
• Create your own repertoire list – for quick access.

The price includes over 600 pages of piano sheet music.   Rather than download each piece – the sheet music is indexed and embedded within the app – so you spend less time sorting music and more time playing!

Music is displayed full screen with ‘zoom’ and ‘page swipe’ – to enlarge detail and change pages. Say goodbye to shifting through dusty manuscripts – with one tap music is brilliantly displayed onscreen.

Music scores include:

Piano Sonata No.1, Op.2 No.1
Piano Sonata No.2, Op.2 No.2
Piano Sonata No.3, Op.2 No.3
Piano Sonata No.4, Op.7
Piano Sonata No.5, Op.10 No.1
Piano Sonata No.6, Op.10 No.2
Piano Sonata No.7, Op.10 No.3
Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13
Piano Sonata No.9, Op.14 No.1
Piano Sonata No.10, Op.14 No.2
Piano Sonata No.11, Op.22
Piano Sonata No.12, Op.26
Piano Sonata No.13, Op.27 No.1
Piano Sonata No.14, Op.27 No.2
Piano Sonata No.15, Op.28
Piano Sonata No.16, Op.31 No.1
Piano Sonata No.17, Op.31 No.2
Piano Sonata No.18, Op.31 No.3
Piano Sonata No.19, Op.49 No.1
Piano Sonata No.20, Op.49 No.2
Piano Sonata No.21, Op.53
Piano Sonata No.22, Op.54
Piano Sonata No.23, Op.57
Piano Sonata No.24, Op.78
Piano Sonata No.25, Op.79
Piano Sonata No.26, Op.81a
Piano Sonata No.27, Op.90
Piano Sonata No.28, Op.101
Piano Sonata No.29, Op.106
Piano Sonata No.30, Op.109
Piano Sonata No.31, Op.110
Piano Sonata No.32, Op.111
3 Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 No. 2
3 Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 No. 3
Piano Sonata in C major, WoO 51

What a glorious sight: GPS enabled Burns app launched on the bard’s birthday

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Magnus Orr

A new app is launched today on iTunes dedicated to Scotland’s famous poet, Robert Burns. The app presents the life and work of Robert Burns in a new context and has been divided into five main sections: Quotes, Locations, Works, Timeline and Characters. Together they provide a great resource to discover more about Robert Burns.

• Find out quotes for different occasions.
• Discover the nearest Burns’ landmarks, wherever you are in the World.
• Have some of Burns greatest works at your fingertips!
• Use the timeline to find key dates.
• Learn more about the characters in Burns’ life and works.
• The Robert Burns app is an ongoing project with new content added on a regular basis.

The app was developed by Momedia and a group of dedicated Burns fans – it is their ambition over time to include every significant location associated with Burns in order to provide a valuable resource for enthusiasts seeking to explore where the poet and his friends and family played out their lives”. All feedback and insight greatly appreciated.

Special thanks: Robert Brown, former curator of Irvine Robert Burns Museum for helping compile content for this guide. Grace Brown for work compiling information on characters.

Available on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/robert-burns/id489279949?mt=8

New App Launch: Liszt Piano Collection

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Momedia

Download the collection of major piano sheet music by Franz Liszt. Build your music library with the practical resource to explore, reference and learn music.

Features:

Music scores contained within the app – no further downloads.
Excellent viewing with full page sheet music browser.
Easy page turn with one swipe.
Zoom in either landscape or portrait mode.
Universal app works on iPhone or iPad.
Uses high resolution images for extra clarity.
The price includes over 2,300 pages of sheet music for piano by Liszt.

Create your own repertoire list – spend more time playing! Explore the wonderful music of Liszt with this recently launched app – Liszt Piano. The app features a library of 213 works by one of the World’s finest piano composers.

The core function of this app is to display sheet music for the piano. With a back-lit display and excellent contrast, an iPad or iPhone makes a perfect partner. Music is displayed full screen with ‘zoom’ and ‘page swipe’ – to enlarge detail and flick pages. Say goodbye to shifting through dusty manuscripts – with one tap music is brilliantly displayed onscreen – bringing classical music to a new generation.

No gimmicks, just a great way to display sheet music – with a modern twist: social media links for sharing tips and connecting with other users. High-resolution music images are embedded within the app, so only one download is required for the complete library.

List of sheet music by Liszt included in App

Liszt Piano – is produced by Momedia, a company based in the UK specialising in creative digital media and events.

Liszt Piano – a practical resource to explore Liszt’s musical scores is available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liszt-piano/id494105992?mt=8

Momedia – helping explore, reference and learn music.

App launch: Chopin Polonaises

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Magnus Orr

Extend your piano sheet music library with the full collection of Chopin’s polonaises – with this practical resource to explore, reference and learn music.

Features:

Music scores contained within the app – no further downloads.
Excellent viewing with full page sheet music browser.
Easy page turn with one swipe.
Zoom in either landscape or portrait mode.
Universal app works on iPhone or iPad.
Uses high resolution images for extra clarity.
Create your own repertoire list – spend more time playing!

Includes:

Polonaise in G minor, B.1
Grande fantaisie sur des airs polonais, Op.13
Polonaise in B-flat minor, B.13
Andante spianto et Grande polonaise brillante, Op.22
Polonaises, Op.26
Introduction et polonaise brillante, Op.3
Polonaise in G-flat major, B.36
Polonaises, Op.40
Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op.44
Polonaise in A-flat major, B.5
Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.53
Polonaise in G-sharp minor, B.6
Polonaise-fantaise, Op.61
Polonaises, Op.71

Rather than download each piece – the sheet music is indexed and embedded within the app – so you spend less time sorting music and more time playing!

Available on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chopin-polonaises/id491296785?mt=8

Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) is regarded as one the greatest Polish composers and one of the very finest composers for the piano. A major figure in nineteenth-centry classical music and the Romantic Period, Chopin was one of a very small group of child prodigies, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn.

Chopin composed his first polonaise at the age of seven, and he greatly developed the style over the course of his creative career. As in the case of the nocturnes, Chopin perfected an existing form. Among the best known polonaises are the “Military” Polonaise in A, Op. 40, No. 1, and the “Heroic” or “Drum” Polonaise in A♭, Op. 53 – both are included in this app.

The polonaise is a processional dance in triple time, the hallmark rhythm of which comprises an eighth note and two sixteenths, followed by four eighth notes. Liszt felt that “this dance is designed above all to draw attention to the men and to gain admiration for their beauty, their fine arts, their martial and courteous appearance.”

For Chopin, however, these compositions are the finest expression of his nostalgic grief with respect to the struggles of his homeland. Chopin composed nine polonaises before leaving Poland. It is only later, in France, that his genius matured. “His seven later examples are thrilling in their splendour, rancour, and instrumental invention.”

Momedia – helping explore, reference and learn music.

New App Launch: Chopin Mazurkas

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Magnus Orr

iphone app - Chopin Mazurkas - sheet music An easy to use sheet music app featuring Frédérick Chopin’s mazurkas.

High- resolution music images are embedded within the app, so only one download is required to save the sheet music for Chopin’s nocturnes. Music is listed in the main index which includes a search function. You can also save music on your own repertoire list.

The mazurka (in Polish, mazurek) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the third or second beat.

The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow machine kujawiak, and the fast oberek. The mazurek is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair before two quarter notes (crotchets). In the 19th century, the dance became popular in many ballrooms in different parts of Europe. The Polish national anthem has a mazurek rhythm but is too slow to be considered a mazurek. There are many Polish versions of the mazurek but the most notable one is the mazurka.

Chopin first started composing mazurkas in 1825, with a number composed in 1830, the year of the November Uprising, a Polish rebellion against the Russian government. Chopin continued composing them until 1849, the year of his death. The stylistic and musical characteristics of Chopin’s mazurkas differ from the traditional variety because Chopin in effect created a completely separate and new genre of mazurka all his own. For example, he used classical techniques in his mazurkas, including counterpoint and fugue. By including more chromaticism and harmony in the mazurkas, he made them more technically interesting than the traditional dances.

All sheet music is embedded within the app.
Available on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chopin-mazurkas/id490715841?mt=8

Forthcoming app launch: Chopin Nocturnes

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Magnus Orr

This sheet music app features Frédérick Chopin’s nocturne compositions.

The core function of the app is to display sheet music. With a back-lit display an iPad or iPhone makes an excellent sheet music viewer. Music is displayed full screen with ‘zoom’ and ‘page swipe’ – to enlarge detail and flick pages.

A nocturne (from the French which meant nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus) is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night. The name nocturne was first applied to pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside. Sometimes it carried the Italian equivalent, notturno, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s quadraphonic Notturno in D, K.286. At this time, the piece was not necessarily evocative of the night, but might merely be intended for performance at night, much like a serenade. Although Chopin did not invent the nocturne, he popularized and expanded on it, building on the form developed by Irish composer John Field.

All sheet music is embedded within the app.