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Making Music with Computers

Creative Programming in Python

Making Music with Computers

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    • Ch. 1 – Introduction and History
    • Ch. 2 – Elements of Music and Code
    • Ch. 3 – Organization and Data
    • Ch. 4 – Transformation and Process
    • Ch. 5 – Iteration and Lists
    • Ch. 6 – Randomness and Choices
    • Ch. 7 – Sonification and Big Data
    • Ch. 8 – Interactive Musical Instruments
    • Ch. 9 – Making Connections
    • Ch. 10 – Music, Number, and Nature
    • Ch. 11 – Exploring Powerful Ideas
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    • Music Library ▸
      • MIDI Constants ▸
        • Pitch
        • Duration
        • Dynamic
        • Panning
        • Instrument
        • Drums and Percussion
        • Scale and Mode
      • Transcription ▸
        • Note
        • Phrase
        • Part
        • Score
      • Composition ▸
        • Mod
        • View
        • Read/Write
      • Performance ▸
        • AudioSample
        • Envelope
        • MidiSequence
        • LiveSample
        • Metronome
        • Play
      • Mapping Values
    • GUI Library ▸
      • Display
      • Graphics ▸
        • Line
        • Circle
        • Point
        • Oval
        • Rectangle
        • Polygon
        • Arc
        • Icon
        • Label
      • Regular Controls ▸
        • Button
        • Checkbox
        • Slider
        • DropDownList
        • TextArea
        • TextField
        • Menu
      • Music Controls ▸
        • Fader
        • Rotary
        • Push
        • Toggle
        • XYPad
      • Events ▸
        • Keyboard Events
        • Mouse Events
        • Display Events
      • Color
    • Image Library
    • Timer Library
    • MIDI Library ▸
      • MidiIn
      • MidiOut
    • OSC Library ▸
      • OscIn
      • OscOut

Reference

JythonMusic provides libraries for music making, image manipulation, building graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and for connecting to external MIDI and OSC devices, such digital pianos, smartphones, and tablets, among others.

  • Music library
  • GUI library
  • Image library
  • Timer library
  • MIDI library
  • OSC library
  • Zipf library

Reference

B. Manaris and A. Brown, Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python, Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing, May 2014.

License

Creative Commons License Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where indicated otherwise.

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