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Published November 27, 2016 at 387 × 355 in Ch. 11 – Exploring Powerful Ideas

Pitch distribution for a piece generated using function random()

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

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