A toolkit for computer-aided musicology
A python library developed at MIT for helping answer questions about music files. Full documentation here
Questions tagged [music21]
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Analyze just Pretty_Midi Instruments
Trying to figure out a good way of solving this problem but wanted to ask for the best way of doing this.
In my project, I am looking at multiple instrument note pairs for a neural network. The only problem is that there are multiple instruments…
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How can I get all piano parts from a music21 score?
I'm able to get all the parts in a music21.stream.Score, using
s = music21.stream.Score()
s.getElementsByClass(music21.instrument.Instrument)
or
music21.instrument.partitionByInstrument(s)
But I cannot find a way to check whether each Part is…
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Music21 to get sample of time and frequencies in txt or csv
I'm getting familiar with python but I just discovered music21 and even if I'm currently reading as much as possible from the documentation, I'm having a hard time finding simple answer to my simple question:
How to sample a piece of music (say…
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How to display musical notation using music21 in ipython/python with MuseScore WITHOUT MuseScore re-opening every time .show() is called?
I am using music21 with MuseScore in an ipython notebook. It works well, the only problem is that every time I create a Stream and then run my_stream.show(), it takes a forever because it waits to open the MuseScore application. This happens even if…
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How to get midi track instrument name with python?
The only way to do it I found is to use music21:
m = converter.parse(path)
for m in m.parts:
print(m[0])
but it's output is incorrect:
Piano
Piano
empty places is also an instrument names, it just can't read it, but problem is not in file,…
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Make a pandas series by running a function on all adjacent values
I have a pandas series, s1, and I want to make a new series, s2, by applying a function that takes two inputs to create one new value. This function would be applied to a 2-value window on s1. The resulting series, s2, should have one fewer value…
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Identify Simultaneous Notes in Different Streams
I'd like to determine when notes from two different parts/instruments should be played at the same moment.
Take the above sheet music. In the third measure, the treble clef's accented A and the bass clef's B should be played in unison. How can I…
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