Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition

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LilyPond

No list of text-based music systems is complete without the granddaddy of them all: [LilyPond](http://lilypond.org/) Alda seems greatly inspired by the syntax of LilyPond, and in fact, I actually think the musical rendering is done via LilyPond. I'm surprised the docs don't seem to mention this heritage at all.

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Sonic Pi

I love these text-based languages for music composition. Its something that is approaching a gap in music composition in real-life vs via computer. In real-life you can tell your bandmates to "just play a I V IV in C" and they get it. But we are still not quite at a place where we can tell a computer that exact phrase and get something useful. I love how close these text-based languages are getting though! I've actually made my own musical language too - called miti [1], which is just one of many others including textbeat [2], foxdot [3], sonic-pi [4], chuck [5], and melrose [6]. Each has their own goals and capabilities. - [1] https://github.com/schollz/miti - [2] https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat - [3] https://foxdot.org/ - [4] https://sonic-pi.net/ - [5] https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ - [6] https://github.com/emicklei/melrose.

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ChucK

I love these text-based languages for music composition. Its something that is approaching a gap in music composition in real-life vs via computer. In real-life you can tell your bandmates to "just play a I V IV in C" and they get it. But we are still not quite at a place where we can tell a computer that exact phrase and get something useful. I love how close these text-based languages are getting though! I've actually made my own musical language too - called miti [1], which is just one of many others including textbeat [2], foxdot [3], sonic-pi [4], chuck [5], and melrose [6]. Each has their own goals and capabilities. - [1] https://github.com/schollz/miti - [2] https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat - [3] https://foxdot.org/ - [4] https://sonic-pi.net/ - [5] https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ - [6] https://github.com/emicklei/melrose.

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