Sorry, I’d rather overlooked this thread. As a pianist (too loud) and singer, I might have something to add; I still have APL (Dyalog) too.
But I don’t know what page 54 refers to. The Schillinger Wiki article doesn’t tell me. Perhaps it’s “Cybernetic Music” (or similar) mentioned earlier in the thread. Meanwhile, I’ll investigate “lilypond”, which I hadn’t heard of. Cheers, Mike Sent from my iPad > On 22 Apr 2020, at 23:45, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Tom - I will be happy to share whatever I do with this. My main problem is > my lack of musical knowledge so it's helpful to have my music teacher > friend look this over. One thing that confused both of us is the output of > the "RSLTNT" code on page 54. I see that you reproduced this in J as > "resultant" but am unsure how the output, e.g. 3 2 1 3 1 2 3,:2 1 1 1 1 1 1 > as the output from RSLTNT 5 3, is supposed to sound. > > The book says of this output that the "...first line contains the same > durations derived by the geometric method (the intervals between > endpoints), and the second line shows the number of 'generators' > simultaneously 'attacking' each duration." Looking at the diagram on page > 55, I can follow how he generates the first line but am confused about the > second line. If the number of generators for the first "3" is 2, then why > isn't there a 2 for the last "3" as well? Is it because the beginnings of > the two attacks are not on the same beat as they are in the first case? > This seems like the sort of thing that might be more understandable if I > could hear how this result sounds. > > Thanks for the code. I don't currently have an APL installed on my machine > but it would be a good idea for working with this. > > Regards, > > Devon > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:48 PM Thomas McGuire <tmcguir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Devon, >> >> I believe I have only gotten as far as some of the Rhythm routines. The >> rhythm code is based on work of Schillinger >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System < >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System>} who developed a method >> back in the early 1900s. Supposedly Benny Goodman, George Gershwin, and >> Glen Miller were influenced by the method. Cybernetic Music seemed to >> incorporate the rhythm in the routines for harmonizing a melody and counter >> point. Those are the parts I haven’t gotten to (and the ones I was most >> interested in). Much of my problem is that while I know some APL, I found I >> had to code in APL at times to make sure I was producing equivalent output. >> It was a pretty tedious process for someone who hadn’t used APL in long >> time. >> >> If you push further in the text and code up some the routines, I hope you >> will share. I would be interested in seeing how well they work. >> >> Tom McGuire >> >>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:18 PM Thomas McGuire <tmcguir...@gmail.com >> <mailto:tmcguir...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> For those of you interested in using J as an adjunct to lilypond or >> other >>>> such program: >>>> >>>> Making a few changes to the lilypond statements that get prepended and >>>> appended to the notes generated (in my previous email on the subject). >> You >>>> can get lilypond to generate a midi file of the score: >>>> >>>> lilypondhdr =: ('\score{',LF);('\version "2.20.0"',LF);('\relative c'' >>>> {',LF);('\clef treble',LF);('\time 3/4',LF) >>>> lilypondend =: (('\layout {}',LF);('\midi {}',LF)),<'}' >>>> 'lilymusic.ly' fwrites~ ; lilypondhdr,(LF,~ each >>>> lilypondnotes,<'}'),lilypondend >>>> >>>> Basically adding the score tag and inserting '\layout {}’ and ‘\midi {}’ >>>> causes lilypond to generate both a pdf of the score and a midi file that >>>> GargeBand or other such program can play for you. When I generated >> MusicXML >>>> the musescore program could play the tune right from the score. >>>> >>>> Tom McGuire >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
