Wolfram Music Theory Course Assistant
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $1.99 | Wolfram Group LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
- Hear and view accidentals and octaves anywhere on the staff.
- Choose from both common scales and hundreds of more advanced scales.
- Explore triads and basic major, minor, and seventh chords.
- Input up to four chords and hear their progression.
- Learn how to identify music intervals by their name and what they sound like.
- Find interval inversions for every interval type.
- Reference musical terms like "andantino" and "solfa" in the abbreviated music dictionary.
The Wolfram Music Theory Course Assistant is powered by the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine and is created by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica—the world's leading software system for mathematical research and education.
The Wolfram Music Theory Course Assistant draws on the computational power of Wolfram|Alpha's supercomputers over a 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi connection.
Reviews
Exactly what I needed! Perfect companion reference for anyone studying and practicing music.
J. Awesome 9457310
I gave this app a try because I thought even with the terrible reviews, if it is close to what the developer describes it to be, it's worth the 5 bucks. It's completely prefect! I have been playing music my entire life and have yet to master one instrument because I just can't get the music theory. Regular tutorial based lesson/apps are too boring for me to pay attention to long enough! I just want to play and write music. This app is the perfect reference to super quickly look at the sounds I'm working with to build the chords, learn the scales and notes I can put together with them and hopefully, FINALLY actually learn key signatures. I hope Wolffram|Alpha people try it and give it good reviews for it's value of what it's actually built to do.
Okay.
ruchrana
It's an okay app. It's basically just consolidating all things music from wolfram alpha into a single app. As a beginner to music theory, it's kinda handy. But not a must buy.
Bleh....
spearhead7
Wolfram has been an interesting supplier for years, but this one does not measure up during initial tests. S-L-O-W, for starters. Clearly a low poriority computation on Wolfram's servers, I experienced several connection time-outs awaiting results for mundane queries on Saturday evening, such as C diminished triad display. As mentioned in other reviews, it's just a skin for connecting to Wolfram's computation engine. I want to use this in lessons and rehearsals, but it's nowhere near fast enough. Another thing I could learn to dislike intensely is this: you set up a query, you press Compute, you wait, the result comes back, it's nice, but nowhere in the result is there an indication of what (chord, interval, scale) you asked for. Labeled results are a pretty darn basic scientific and musical behavior, especially when it takes 15-30 seconds to receive the results. I expect that Wolfram will need to upgrade this app in the near future. Wait befor buying. iOS 4.0.2 - iPhone 3GS - lightly loaded WiFi
Great app
mart1373
Nice app, but I would've liked to see a bass clef representation in the calculation. I'm a native trombone player and I read bass clef normally, so it would be a lot easier to have that rather than transposing treble clef. Overall it's a fantastic application though!
Wanting more functionality
Marcussssssss
I wish all intervals did not start at the middle c octave, I wish you could lower the octave and the look at different intervals.
Shallow Information
Enricochet
This app is amazingly non music specific. Definitions of terms are not specific to music and do not include musical notation examples...very general. For example, the scales search does not include the Melodic Minor form...one of the great 48 every musician learns....hmmmm....Don't buy, wait for something written by music instructors.
