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iBook comes to Mac laptops and desktops

Interactive Listening iBook is now available on Mac laptops and desktops The moment we were all waiting for is here.  Apple has released its new OS X Mavericks which makes our fully interactive  iBook accessible to your Mac laptop or desktop.  Even better yet, the Mavericks update is free (follow this link to go to the
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iBooks joining the Mac

Interactive Listening – Our iBook is joining the Mac Last week, Apple announced that the iBook format will now operate across ALL Apple/Mac computers including desktops, laptops, iPads and mini iPads with the new OS X. They have also featured INTERACTIVE LISTENING  at their annual developer convention in San Francisco. Read more on the apple
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iPad Technology in the classroom: Two Chicago Teachers Remix Music History

In the News To read the full press release go to:  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10720894.htm Two Chicago Teachers Remix Music History with iPad Technology. Interactive Listening iBook Chosen as #1 Editor’s Choice by Apple Created for digital-savvy students, Interactive Listening features Hollywood-style graphics, interactive 3-D instruments and computer games. At the same time, the iBook includes interactive educational content
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Jennifer Foxx’s Tech Tuesday, Music Education Review

review from music educator jennifer foxx
Jennifer Foxx just posted a great review of Interactive Listening on her website. Every Tuesday she posts a new page about music education and technology news that can help music teachers. It’s amazing how fast technology is amplifying the music education conversation. How long ago was it that teachers heard about new resources at All-State
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the Mozart kids from Salzburg

the music education revolution, music history reform, music technology on the iPad with ibooks author
the Mozart letters                                      While on tour in Italy, the 14-year-old Mozart wrote various letters to his older sister who was now left at home in Salzburg to prepare for marriage. While Mozart performed near the Roman Coliseum and ruins of Pompeii, Maria was beginning a new chapter in her life without music. 
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Apple’s #1 iBook on iTunes: Music education fights back

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We made it onto the top of the iTunes homepage in the picture above. Interactive Listening combines the interface of app design with the comprehensive text needed for a music course. Our music iBook is designed to create a new educational experience using one or thirty iPads in the music classroom. Click here to download
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Music education iBook for iPad hits Australia

a new style of music appreciation and music history come to Australia
Interactive Listening has been approved for sale in Australia. We think you’ll like the price compared to traditional music textbooks, and hope our book serves as a new introduction to music appreciation. We have some great material on Gamelan in our world music section. Hopefully we’ll meet more teachers at the Midwest Clinic next year. We’d
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iTunes #1 Editor’s Choice Interactive Edition for iPad

music appreciation, music instruments, 230 pages of interactive content, videos, 3D models, over 120 built in music samples, music technology
Here’s the ibook demo! We are excited to announce that Apple selected Interactive Listening as the #1 new interactive book and #1 Editor’s Choice in all categories.  Watch the demo below to find out why Interactive Listening is the first music textbook to ever be featured on the iTunes homepage. Download a 20 pages sample
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Music History: Chasing Modest Mussorgsky

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Modest Mussorgsky  1839-1881 A writing sample from our approach to music history. In 1856, a gang of five self-taught Russian composers met to create a new type of classical music, free from the rules of Germany. Lead by Modest Mussorgsky, they composed Russian music for Russian people, drawn from peasant melodies, folklore witches, and patriotic
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iBook premiere at TMEA music education conference, San Antonio 2013

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The book that changes music history. We’re excited to premiere our fully interactive iBook at TMEA. You have to see it to believe what is now possible in music education.  Stop by booth #129 to see our interactive book for iPad in action. Interactive Listening is a digital expedition through the world of music studying various
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