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musical analysis, the music score, an animated visualisation of the song with lyrics and – here's the real treat – an interactive activity

Music is an auditory experience.

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I haven’t had this experience in 20 years. Before CDs came out, I’d buy an album and hold the 12-inch cover in my hand, sitting cross-legged on the floor while I listened to the music, read the liner notes, and looked at the pictures.” People used to have this very tactile, multimedia experience when they bought an album. But with the digitization of music, we’ve lost that special moment. You can think of the app as, finally, that chance to unwrap the box and have a personal, intimate experience again with music. It might be the case that people spend a lot of time with the app when it first comes out [as they did with album covers] and then perhaps they’ll move on to purely enjoying the music after that

games, visualizations, essays, and even music-theory-teaching interactions,

oft-described “genius” tapped Scott Snibbe (w

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