Playable BooksA NEW WAY INTO MUSIC BOOKS
What if you could press play on a music textbook?
Read classic music books. Hear the examples. Follow every note on the original page.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Find your next idea.
Four books to read, hear, and return to.
Free to explore. No account needed.
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Counterpoint
Learn how independent voices work together, one species at a time.
Open book -
Treatise on Harmony
Explore the foundations of harmony, composition, and accompaniment.
Open book -
Principles of Orchestration
Discover instrumental colors through scores and orchestral recordings.
Open book -
Theory of Harmony
Read all 22 chapters, with the original German beside a new English translation.
Open book
Reading editions with original scans. Transcriptions and new translations are review drafts; source notes stay with the music.
Read with clarity
Choose a reading that works for you, and compare it with the original text.
Listen as you learn
Play musical examples and slow them down to hear how the parts fit together.
Stay close to the source
Compare rendered notation with the printed music, and open the original page scans.
WHY I’M MAKING THIS
Music books shouldn’t
feel out of reach.
For a long time, I felt blocked from learning through music textbooks. I wanted to hear what the pages were trying to teach me.
With William Caplin’s permission, I built the companion app for Analyzing Classical Form. Playable Books grows from that same desire: to help more people learn from these books.
Mayank Sanganeria ↗WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN?
Your next book
could be a playable book.
I’m taking requests for future conversions. Tell me the title you have in mind, and I’ll get in touch.