Questions tagged [music]
This tag indicates that the challenge involves music, e.g. taking music as input, producing music as output or handling musical notes.
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Transpose these notes!
In this challenge, you should take input as a number between 0 and 11 inclusive and a (possibly empty) list of the following strings/notes:
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Relations between interval and semitones
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You can output one string with two types of ...
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Can Bitshift Variations in C Minor be compressed down to less than 185 characters?
Bitshift Variations in C Minor by Robert Miles is a Code Golf music piece written in C (with some additional bash commands). It was originally presented in a 2016 Computerphile video Code Golf & ...
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Identify 22-TET intervals
Objective
Given the distance between two keys in an octave, identify its name.
But there's a caveat. In this challenge, there are 22 keys in an octave, not usual 12.
Here, a porcupine[7] scale will be ...
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Print the notes of an increasing octave-repeating scale
Challenge
To quote Wikipedia:
An octave-repeating scale can be represented as a circular arrangement
of pitch classes, ordered by increasing (or decreasing) pitch class. For instance, the increasing ...
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Counting Rhythms
The Narrative
You are a bad musician. You never bothered to learn how to count rhythms. To remedy this shortcoming, you decide to write a program that will tell you how to count in any given time ...
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Sort musical pitches
Given an unordered list of musical pitches, write the shortest program/function (scored in bytes) to sort the list from lowest pitch to highest.
Pitches will be given in scientific pitch notation, ...
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Output the 12 Bar Blues
Note to those without experience in music: Through making an attempt to solve this problem, you may find that music and computer programming are similar in the ways that they implement rules and ...
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Random musical harmonies [closed]
The challenge.
Make a program that produces a random series of 8 notes in the scale of E minor, and then harmonizes them.
Details.
Notes must be represented in output as a 1-2 char string, which ...
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Music with pi and e
Because I forgot to celebrate Pi Day (14.3), let's celebrate with \$\pi\$, \$e\$ (Euler's number) and music!
Challenge
No, we don't have time to eat a pi-pizza, let's make a program.
What you need is ...
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How predictable is popular music?
The McGill Billboard Project annotates various audio features of songs from a random sample of the Billboard charts. I scraped this data to produce the following file of chord progressions:
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Are the beams above or below the notes?
In musical notation, groups of notes shorter than one beat are joined together by a line at the bottom called a beam. Here are a few bars of music with the beams highlighted:
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Make a random drum loop
Do randomly generated drum loops sound good?
A drum loop is a \$5\times 32\$ matrix \$A\$ of \$1\$s and \$0\$s such that
\$A_{1,1}=A_{1,17}=A_{2,9}=A_{2,25}=1\$,
for each \$i\$, the \$i\$th row has ...
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Approximate the perfect fifth
Starting at 1-TET, give equal temperaments that have better and better approximation of the perfect fifth(just ratio 3/2). (OEIS sequence A060528)
The formal description of the sequence, copied from ...
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Is this a Major Scale (or equivalent)?
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The major scale (or Ionian scale) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales, it is made up of ...
