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• A smart way to translate guitar chords into piano sheet music with Python

  I chose Python as a programming language here because, as you could probably guess, there are myriads of libraries in Python for working with music. I found mingus to be the simplest for working with guitar chords and music21 for generating the piano score. It might be possible though to do everything with music21 only, because it's extremely powerful, but I found mixing the two libraries to be easier than... - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Looking for help to create a program

  If you are interested in doing anything with Python, be sure to check out Music21, which has a lot of cool features — including doing twelve-tone matrix stuff like this — built-in. Source: about 1 year ago

• Transposition Midi

  Http://web.mit.edu/music21/ Music21 documentation. Source: about 1 year ago

• [D] Is MusicGPT a viable possibility?

  It's definitely a viable possiblity, and there's quite a few companeis already doing it. If you want to explore doing it yourself, I'd check out https://web.mit.edu/music21/ and build some basic models using LSTM etc. To have some fun using open source MIDI data sets like https://magenta.tensorflow.org/datasets/maestro . Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Is there a OS tool which queries MIDI datasets by chord progression/key?

  A little manual, but music21[0] can do the analysis! [0]: http://web.mit.edu/music21/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Is there a music term that indicates a thing that could be either a note or an rest?

  There's no universally accepted term for the latter concept that I know of. For example, the music21 music processing library calls the general class that includes notes, chords and rests Music21Objects, and you'd think they'd call them something better if they could. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Any ideas for AI that could compose sheet music for a kokle ensemble?

  This Python toolkit has support for analyzing folk tunes. Https://web.mit.edu/music21/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• AI composer!

  Maybe for the naming you could use an analysis tool like music21 to find the key of the generated piece and use that in the naming. Assuming you generate the music as midi. Source: over 2 years ago

• mingus library for music theory

  LibROSA is great for working with music audio, but music21 is pretty much the standard AFAICT for dealing with symbolic music. The library's a bit of a mess but it does everything you could possibly want to do. Source: over 2 years ago

• Sheet Music to Harmonica Tabs (Note to Hole converter)

  The program is written in Python and uses the music21 library (http://web.mit.edu/music21/) and is available here: https://github.com/JDelveaux/Sheet2Tab. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Significance of melody notes position in harmony chord

  You could use Music Information Retreival methods such as the Music21 library for python. You could use MIDI datasets from Bach or other pop music MIDI repositories. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Does this exist ? (Midi intervals analysis)

  If you can program, check out the python based music21 library: http://web.mit.edu/music21/. Source: about 3 years ago

• Thinking of switching to finale

  LilyPond has been around since 1998 and tends to draw a more technical user and is especially popular in certain niche areas of academia. For example, MIT's Music21 system uses LilyPond to generate sheet music. Generating sheet music is one of those areas where LilyPond excels over the graphical programs just because it is text-based. It has other advantages, but that is one pertinent to academia. Source: about 3 years ago