The Orchestra: An App Review
The main menu of The Orchestra app. You can select one of the eight featured pieces of music or tap on the right to enter the instrument section. The app is highly visual and packed with plenty of facts and information to read as well. Recently, as part of my birthday celebration, I treated myself to a couple of iPad apps pertaining to classical music. Anyone with any familiarity to this blog knows I have a strong curiosity for the classical music form. I recently completed a cycle of posts on what I consider to be the greatest symphonies ever composed. But, as I admitted several times throughout those posts (and others on the subject of classical music) I am a musical amateur. I have never received any musical training. I taught myself to play the guitar in college. I am extremely mediocre. I can pick out a few tunes (mostly Christmas carols as it turns out) on an electric keyboard I have in my study. Of course, I have already reviewed the app, GarageBand . So, I dabble wit