NAME

App-MusicTools - command line utilities for music composition and analysis

SYNOPSIS

  $ atonal-util --ly findin --pitchset=5-25 c e g
  Ti(0)   c,e,g,a,ais
  T(4)    c,e,g,fis,a

  $ export MIDI_EDITOR=timidity
  $ ly-fu --instrument=banjo c des ees c des bes c aes

  $ scalemogrifier --mode=mixolydian --transpose=fis
  fis gis ais b cis dis e fis'

  % vov --outputtmpl='<%{chord}> \t% %{vov}' I IV/IV V7/IV IV V7 I
  <c e g>       % I
  <b dis f>     % IV/IV
  <c e g b>     % V7/IV
  <f a c>       % IV
  <g b d f>     % V7
  <c e g>       % I

DESCRIPTION

This distribution contains a number of command line utilities related to music composition and analysis, examples of which are shown in the SYNOPSIS. Run perldoc on the command name for documentation on how to use each tool.

The zsh-compdef directory of this distribution includes ZSH completion scripts for the command line utilities. Install these files to a ZSH $fpath directory, and follow the ZSH documentation on setting up tab completion.

SEE ALSO

• http://www.lilypond.org/ and most notably the Learning and Notation manuals, as the tools make use of the default lilypond note letter conventions (e.g. fis for F sharp, ees for E flat, etc.)

• ly-fu expects that a MIDI player and PDF viewer are available on the system.

• "The Structure of Atonal Music" by Allen Forte (ISBN 978-0-300-02120-2).

• Theory of Harmony by Arnold Schoenberg (ISBN 978-0-520-26608-7).

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_number

• Music::AtonalUtil, Music::Chord::Positions, Music::LilyPondUtil, Music::Tension

AUTHOR

Jeremy Mates, <jmates@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Jeremy Mates

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.16 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.