Habanera: See How Music Works

See inside the music you love. Habanera plays a growing library of masterworks by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Palestrina, Josquin, Victoria, Byrd, Tallis, Lasso, Purcell, Pachelbel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Bizet, Bruckner and Rachmaninov before your eyes, while three colour-coded layers of professional analysis reveal what the music is really doing: the chord of the moment, the phrase-level line being composed out, and the deep structure underneath it all. WHO IT'S FOR • Music-theory and counterpoint students: every chord, suspension and cadence named on a real score, not a textbook fragment • Choir singers: see the piece you are rehearsing whole, with entries, suspensions, and where your line is going • Composers: study how the masters build tension, prolong a harmony, and close a form • Parents and teachers: a guided, narrated way into great music, in your language • And anyone who loves this music and wants to hear more in it Writing or producing songs today? The harmony and voice-leading of modern music were worked out by these composers. Learn the mechanics here and you will hear them everywhere, including in your own writing. WHAT YOU GET • A growing library of annotated masterworks, from Renaissance polyphony to the Habanera from Carmen • A moving line that keeps the score, the sound and the analysis in perfect sync • Three layers of analysis (foreground, middleground, background) with plain-language cards explaining the moment • Guided Overviews: a narrator walks you through every piece, spotlighting the notes as the narration explains them (best in landscape) • The score assistant: ask any question about the piece you are hearing and get a real answer • A structure view that unfolds the whole piece as a musical tree, a foreground panel that lights the sounding chord on a mini keyboard, a bar magnifier and a glossary of definitions • Several animated, narrated video tutorials, from reading the page to forms and genres, that teach every idea the app uses, no prior theory needed • Share this moment: send any passage as a link, and whoever opens it sees and hears that moment on the web, no app needed • Printable scores (Pro): print any piece or download it as a PDF, the score alone or with every layer of the analysis • Sung-lyric subtitles, offline mode, and a choice of two English narrators IN YOUR LANGUAGE The whole experience is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese: analysis cards, Guided Overview narration, the tutorial videos, definitions and subtitles. FREE AND PRO Free forever: a shelf of fully annotated masterworks (among them the Habanera, Chopin's E-minor Prelude, the Moonlight Sonata, Tallis's If ye love me, Bach's Invention No. 1, Mozart's Ave verum corpus, Vivaldi's Spring and Handel's Hallelujah), each with its Guided Overview and Share this moment, the free animated tutorials, and 30-second previews of every other score and of the Pro tutorials. Habanera Pro unlocks every annotated score with its Guided Overview and Share this moment, every further tutorial, the score assistant (50 questions a month), and printable scores you can print or download as PDFs. 7-day free trial, then £4.99/month (shown in your local currency). Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled any time in your store account settings. No ads. No account required to start listening. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/