I love the combination of music and technology. My major in college was Music Theory that gave me the opportunity to orchestrate music for different sets of instruments and to compose music. This is something that I really enjoy doing, especially orchestrating music.
Most music software allows you to drag and drop the musical notation into a score. You can assign the instruments from a menu. This paradigm is good because it allows the musician to think like a musician and work within an environment that he or she is use to.
However, sometimes coding provides a better way. The coding language can make it easier to enter the notes and to reuse sections of music that repeat at different parts of the composition.
I plan to write a series of articles about coding music. In this post I am going to introduce you to Trinket.io’s music program. It provides an easy way to create short musical pieces. You enter the name of the notes that define the pitches. It is not really coding but it is a method that some other sites also use. The goal is to provide an easy, fun way for people to enjoy music.
The following example is from their website. To enter the notes cdefgab in the bass, use the note name but capitalize it, CDEFGAB. To enter these pitches in the treble clef, use the lower case, cdefgab.
Most music software allows you to drag and drop the musical notation into a score. You can assign the instruments from a menu. This paradigm is good because it allows the musician to think like a musician and work within an environment that he or she is use to.
However, sometimes coding provides a better way. The coding language can make it easier to enter the notes and to reuse sections of music that repeat at different parts of the composition.
I plan to write a series of articles about coding music. In this post I am going to introduce you to Trinket.io’s music program. It provides an easy way to create short musical pieces. You enter the name of the notes that define the pitches. It is not really coding but it is a method that some other sites also use. The goal is to provide an easy, fun way for people to enjoy music.
The following example is from their website. To enter the notes cdefgab in the bass, use the note name but capitalize it, CDEFGAB. To enter these pitches in the treble clef, use the lower case, cdefgab.
You can create chords by entering the notes of the chords within angle brackets, for example, here is a C major triad <c e g>.
The following images display the other things that you can do with this program.