Topics: Pythagoras (music, nature, and number), the Antikythera mechanism, Kepler’s harmony of the world, cymatics, fractals, electronic music, computers and programming, the computer as a musical instrument, running Python programs.
This chapter provides a quick tour of some of the major technological landmarks in Western music history and computer science. For more information, see the reference textbook.
Here is code from this chapter.
Play a musical note
This code sample (Ch. 1, p. 22) demonstrates how to play a single musical note.
Run it to test your JythonMusic installation.
# playNote.py # Demonstrates how to play a single note. from music import * # import music library note = Note(C4, HN) # create a middle C half note Play.midi(note) # and play it!
It should generate this sound:
NOTE: To play a melody, see code in chapter 3.