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These apps, sites, resources and links may help you to discover, understand and
find out more, etc, …
The coloured ‘dots’ on each page …
represent CMYK—the colours used in general 4-colour print— the K being Black, and the colour spectrum used in monitors—RGB. For an explanation, see ‘what is CMYK?’ Note: In the CMYK image, the K is set here in a percentage of K, as 100%jK—i.e. solid black—isjvery harsh for viewing in these circumstances.
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Mila’s Tools
is an easy-to-use, no frills iPhone unit conversion calculator … great for converting multiple things, including area, capacitance, bits and bytes, length, fuel, fraction, power, pressure, time, temperature, velocity, weight and torque. Download from the App Store or for other languages, see here.
Bach Mass in B minor parts individually sung
If preparing for the Bach Mass in B minor, here’s a site of free Mass parts individually sung by Ophiel van Leer—enabling you to get the words and rhythms down-pat. Great aids to get well-rehearsed, I was able to sing along in the car. See here.
This other site offers, for purchase, your part sung by a professional teaching singer. Selected hard passages are slowed on special tracks called StudySpots™. Only the best available professional choral singers active in the Boston musical scene—performing as soloists, recitalists and singers with groups—are used. Alljchoral movements are supported by a complete performance recording in the background. See here.
Definitive resource
I’m an amateur philologist, having this perpetual fascination with the origin of words and phrases—etymologies—of our complex utterances. Always on hand, I’m forever checking words in my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary app. It—and its parent, the full OED—is the definitive volume for our great English language.
Apple App: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
is the SOED available at the App Store
