Questions tagged [music-notation]

This tag relates to all types of music notation (chords, tablatures or music score).

This tag relates to all types of music notation (chords, tablatures or music score). It may also be used for questions relating to aspects of music theory (chord progressions, etc.) that are not strictly notation-dependent. It should not be used for audio music generation, audio file players, etc..

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Music21 Instrument Objects not working as expected

I am trying to predict the next musical instrument note pair in python using an RNN neural network. However, I am having trouble interpreting the music21 documentation for the part I am currently on. In the code below I, am trying to extract the…
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Chord detection in JavaScript based on String Array of notes

I want to detect chords based on input String with notes (e.g. 'C', 'F', 'G') and get the resulting output chord (in this case, 'Csus4'). I've done some research and it seems that all of the solutions out there are for working on audio stream input.…
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LilyPond: pitch in parenthesis without stem (accordion notation)

For accordion music sheet notation it is common to specify the pitches in parenthesis, e.g. (E in parenthesis in the snippet below). This is my target: The pitches in parenthesis (1) are not played and should not take up additional logical time…
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How can I make a play two musical notes simultaneously in Python?

I plan to do a music notation which allow the user to place the note where ever they want and allowed them to play the notes they placed. If the user put the note in the same time which we have to play 2 or above notes together, any solution to…
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How to write chords with MIDI?

How do I write a chord, i.e. a NoteOn of seveal notes on each above the other at the same time line? What should be the message for this chord.
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Segmentation marks in MusicXML

I am looking for a way to put segmentation marks in a musicXML file, which can be read by software such as musescore. Perhaps a large vertical line or a label above a note? Any ideas on how to mark a note in a simple way? I can write a lyric…
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LilyPond: acciaccaturas and slashed stems not showing when beamed together

I have a question related to acciaccaturas and slashed stems. So the first one is: why when more than one note is input as acciaccaturas or slashed grace notes they are not automatically beamed? And why when I beam them I lose the slash? \version…
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Playing chords as simultaneous sounds

I want to build a musical Ear Training program. I have samples of piano notes on mp3 or wav files, and i want to play them simultaneously to build musical chords. What will be the easiest or the most successful way of playing sounds together? Thanks…
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Recognising an individual guitar chord from an audio sample

I realise there are a fair few questions on here already with regard to chord detection algorithms; however, most of these seem to be relating more to interpreting songs into sets of chords or chord transcription. My problem ought to be a lot…
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Is there a way to constrain music21's chord detection to non-slash chords?

I'm working on a script that takes as input a sequence of MIDI notes and outputs a chord symbol for use in Impro-Visor, an open-source jazz improvisation helper. In order to take advantage of Impro-Visor's large vocabulary of chords I've been trying…
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Is there any way to create and display music notation inside of a codenameone app?

Is there any way to create and display music notation inside of a codenameone app? For Java generally there are some libraries like for example JFugue that let you write music inside a program. Maybe also display it, i didn't try that out. There is…
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Classifying 64x4 images representing piano rolls as real or fake

I want to build a GAN for generating piano rolls (what I'll describe differs from real piano rolls but can be thought of as a variant of them). Thus my first problem is that I need a discriminator network that can tell if a piano roll is real or…
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Music data format for polyphonic music visualization with Processing

I am interested in visualizing melodic contours of polyphonic music with Processing. It is still unclear to me, though, what the most convenient format for imported data (pitch and onset/duration) would be: tabular (e.g. Humdrum), XML (e.g. MEI,…
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How to create and display music scores on Android

I'm working on a simple app that explains the musical harmony foundamentals. I want to write programmatically some music scores and display it on a Canvas. I've found a Java library called abc4j (See this), perfect for this job. The problem is that…
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Passing chords to and returning music with Lilypond music substitution functions

I am trying to write functions in Lilypond which take a chord (or list of pitches) as an argument and return music with said chord inserted into a rhythm. More specifically, I would like the function to be invoked in some way like…
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