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My overall thesis has been that music perception and cognition are embodied activities, depending crucially on the tangible features of our sensorimotor apparatus, and also on the sociocultural environment in which music perception, cognition, and production are situated.

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# Notes:

Configuring Subversion

After you install subversion you should put CNMAT's long list of "global-ignores" in your .subversion/config file

Why?

Subversion can be configured to "ignore" certain files, which mainly means not to try to check them into the repository if they appear in a folder. You mainly need this for files that are created by the build process, which don't belong in the repository. By default Subversion comes configured with a pretty conservative list of these files; I've added quite a few.

How?

NOTE: This information no longer applies to users accessing the CNMAT subversion server!

Why?

July 23-27, 11 AM -4 PM
(Lecture 11-12, lunch break 12-1, lab session with instructor support 1-4)
CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
Instructors: Adrian Freed

The format will be short morning lectures and demonstrations and late morning and afternoon supervised lab sessions. There will be plenty of scope for discussions and private access to instructors for guidance and mentoring.

# Mac OSX:

- Use the Subversion package by Martin Ott: [http://homepage.mac.com/martinott/] (or build it from source, or using Fink or DarwinPorts)
- Optional: Install the svnX graphical front-end: [http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/features/]

# Linux

- Use your distro package manager to find a subversion client.

# Windows

- Use TortiseSVN

# Repository web-view

You can view the project source code through the web browser at this address:

- https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/svn/view/musictheory

_Mathematica_ searches a local user directory (see $UserDirectory) in addition to the system-wide location for add-on packages. The musictheory/src directory needs to be added to this path. This can be done in two possible ways:

1. Create a symbolic link in $UserDirectory to the musictheory/src directory. Using Terminal:

cd ~/Library/Mathematica/Applications

Open up the notebook musictheory/nb/Introduction.nb and evaluate its contents.

- If the MusicTheory subpackages were not found, then the installation was not done correctly.
- If you did not install LilyPond, the demonstrations using Notate[] will not work.

Details on the features of major subpackages.

# Features

- Imports a MIDI type 0, 1, or 2 file and parses into a series of chunks (headers, track), and events (channel, meta, sysex).

# Planned

- Convert parsed MIDI data into a score
- MIDI export

# Features

- Defines a collection of symbols for standard western notation
- Defines symbols used in score representation

# Planned

- More symbols for advanced notation requirements

# Maybe

- Some way to deal with generalized pitch classes

# Features

- PitchClass
- DiatonicToChromatic
- Pitch to numeric
- PitchToInteger
- IntegerToPitch
- Duration to numeric
- DurationToRational
- RationalToDuration
- TotalDuration
- DurationToOnset
- OnsetToDuration
- Score reduction
- ExtractDurations
- ExtractPitchInstances

# Planned

- Score to/from piano roll

# Features

- GeneratePolyrhythm

# Planned

- TBD

# Features

- Notate
Renders and returns an image given a Score or Notes as input.

# Planned

- Ability to export to various formats (all possible using the Lilypond backend)
- EPS
- PDF
- MusicXML
- MIDI
- Support for rhythmic notation e.g., "Tubs" notation and polygon visualizations

Modes are defined as a list of intervals relative to the root of a scale.

# Features

- Modes of limited transposition
- Standard musical modes:
- Ionian
- Dorian
- Phrygian
- Lydian
- Mixolydian
- Aeolian
- Locrian

# Planned

- More scales...

A collection of ancient Hindu rhythms popularized by Olivier Messiaen.

# Features

- Decitalas = { {i, name, {Duration[...], ...}, {...}, ... }

# Planned

- N/A

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