Overview
- Takes the reader on a journey through music concepts and on the way develops music essentials step-by-step
- Emphasizes the representation of musical concepts in an object-oriented way as Python classes and objects
- Applies a complete library of music elements in software to various localized music transformations
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The first part of the book focuses on software representation of the main elements found in music theory. Its objective is to provide direction to students on how to build a music software model from basic concepts and grow towards more complex concepts. Chapter by chapter, music concepts are introduced, and each is broken apart into related data properties and methods with the goal that by the end of this section, the reader will have developed a relatively complete library of music elements in software. The second part takes on the task of applying that foundation to the subject of “music transformations”. The focus is on localized transformations, that is, transformations isolated to a few measures. After a general introduction, the discussion includes topics of pitch assignment, key change, melodic inversion, melodic shaping, harmonic transcription, retrograde, melodic search and dilation.
This textbook is designed as a principal or supplemental source for computer science, software engineering, and programming courses. It can also be used as a main textbook for advanced computer music courses or electronic music courses. Computer music software professionals interested in learning how to model the complexities of music theory artifacts, or music students who want to learn advanced programming techniques in their domain will also find the book helpful.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music Representation and Transformation in Software
Book Subtitle: Structure and Algorithms in Python
Authors: Donald P. Pazel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97472-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97471-8Published: 07 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97472-5Published: 06 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 333
Number of Illustrations: 177 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Music, Digital Humanities