The Music of Middle-earth 4+
Tizian Zeltner
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
"The Music of Middle-earth" is an unofficial companion app to index Howard Shore's music for the "Lord of the Rings" films.
The film score consists of more than 80 leitmotifs or themes that relate to specific characters, locations or cultures of Middle-earth.
This project tries to provide an interactive listening experience that highlights all theme occurrences throughout the soundtrack in form of a simple, user-friendly application.
Note: None of the music is part of this application. The albums must be acquired separately.
The app includes information about the following albums:
The "Original Soundtrack" albums released between 2001 and 2003.
The "Complete Recordings" albums released between 2005 and 2007.
The "Rarities Archive" album released 2010 together with 'The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films' by Doug Adams.
If you own some of the albums, you can listen to the tracks and all indexed sections directly from the application in an interactive way.
Additionally, when listening to a track, the currently playing themes are displayed.
More information and a desktop version that runs on Windows and Mac available at:
http://musicofmiddleearth.com/
Features
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- List of all themes and tracks
- List theme occurrences by theme or by track
- Listen to the tracks or specific theme occurrences
- Display currently playing themes while listening to the tracks
What’s New
Version 1.4.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
* Fix album selection issue
More information and a desktop version available at:
http://musicofmiddleearth.com/
Ratings and Reviews
Great app, overall
There seems to be confusion among ppl who previously downloaded this app. It does not give you the soundtracks. Rather, if you already have them on iTunes it links to them. It’s generally a great app. The albums it links to are: the “Original Soundtrack,” the “Complete Recording,” and the “Rarities Archive.” This last one doesn’t come up on my iTunes and I’ve never heard if it. I think there are a couple mistakes, like under the theme for “Rohan Fanfare,” the piece under the track “Uruk-Hai” is, I think, the theme for the Fellowship, not for Rohan. But I may be wrong.
Keeping the soundtrack in this app for free would be copyright
All the low reviews for this app are from people who thought it would come with the LOTR soundtrack. That makes no sense, and the app would be taken down in months for massive copyright infringement.
This app is exactly what I have been looking for. The sheer volume of organized themes is extremely impressive, and helps me study and understand the techniques Howard Shore used.
I had been looking for maybe an Internet article that listed all the different themes, but this is even better; an app that links to your itunes and classifies and organizes all 80+ themes that represent different people, ideas, cultures and locations in Middle-Earth.
One of the best things about this trilogy is the music, and the app lets me access and view all of it in a new lens. So stop acting like you expected the app to come with all of the Lord of the Rings music for free.
It's ok
I love it but it says that I don't have it even though I own a song from the ROTK complete recordings
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Tizian Zeltner
- Size
- 2.6 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 Tizian Zeltner
- Price
- Free