The Music Suite

The Music Suite
music-suite.github.io

For instance, when I first started learning programming my motivation was to create a program to render Byzantine chant, which has a completely different visual representation. Here's an example with the byzantine notation above the western notation (the bottom staff is the ornamentation implied by the byzantine notation): http://www.cappellaromana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Che...

Another different visual representation is that of shakuhachi music: http://www.rileylee.net/shaku_notation.html

If anyone can offer tips on how to approach this problem, I'd be grateful. But I might have to play with this. The code for my ill-fated attempt for byzantine chant is here, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/muraiki/byzscribe

  let
      p1 = scat [c..c']^/4
      p2 = delay (1/4) $ scat [c..c']^/4
      p3 = delay (3/4) $ scat [c..c']^/4
  in (accent . legato) (p1  p2  p3)

      p2 = delay (1/4) $$ [p1] 

I would also love to see ways to define particular scales and modes and then specify operations within that scale space without necessarily articulating the individual notes. Of course at that point you're getting into compositional tooling rather than transcription.

Anyway, nice work and great documentation so far. Also good that there's a whole bunch of converters.

That said, I won't be switching from ABC for my day-to-day music writing. I see The Music Suite as being useful for, e.g., writing a fugue, where the music can be elegantly expressed programmatically.