/tonal

Tools for music analysis and generation

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tonal

Tools for music analysis and generation

To install: pip install tonal

Examples

chords

from tonal import chords_to_wav

chord_sequence = [
    ('Bdim', 120),
    ('Em11', 120),
    ('Amin9', 120),
    ('Dm7', 120),
    'G7',
    'Cmaj7',
]

wav_filepath = chords_to_wav(chord_sequence)

If you have hum you can use it to diplay (and hear) the sound:

from hum import Sound
Sound.from_file(wav_filepath).display()

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Change the way the chords are played, and what the name (really, filepath) of the midi and wav files produce are.

from tonal.chords import play_arpeggio

Sound.from_file(
    chords_to_wav(chord_sequence, name='test_arpeggio', render_chord=play_arpeggio)
).display()

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counterpoint

The `translate_in_scale` allows you to translate a sequence of notes, or multiple 
tracks of notes by the given number of steps within the given scale.

>>> stream = translate_in_scale(['C4', 'E4', 'B3', 'C4'], -2, 'C')
>>> stream  # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<music21.stream.Stream ...>
>>> note_names(stream)
['A3', 'C4', 'G3', 'A3']

For multiple tracks:

>>> tracks = [['C4', 'E4', 'G4'], ['A4', 'C5', 'E5']]
>>> translated_tracks = translate_in_scale(tracks, -2, 'C')
>>> multi_note_names(translated_tracks)
[['A3', 'C4', 'E4'], ['F4', 'A4', 'C5']]

Using some other scales:

With a E major scale:

>>> tracks = [['E4', 'G#4', 'B4'], ['C#5', 'E5', 'G#5']]
>>> translated_tracks = translate_in_scale(tracks, 1, 'E')
>>> multi_note_names(translated_tracks)
[['F#4', 'A4', 'C#5'], ['D#5', 'F#5', 'A5']]

With a D flat major scale:

>>> tracks = [['Db4', 'F4', 'Ab4'], ['Bb4', 'Db5', 'F5']]
>>> translated_tracks = translate_in_scale(tracks, -3, 'Db')
>>> multi_note_names(translated_tracks)
[['A-3', 'C4', 'E-4'], ['F4', 'A-4', 'C5']]

Now let's use a different, "custom" scale, as well as demonstrate the use
of a partial function to get a translator with a fixed input scale:

>>> from functools import partial
>>> from music21.scale import HarmonicMinorScale
>>> translate = partial(
...     translate_in_scale, input_scale='A', scale_creator=HarmonicMinorScale
... )
>>> tracks = [['A4', 'C5', 'E5'], ['G#5', 'A5', 'C6']]
>>> translated_tracks = translate(tracks, 2)
>>> multi_note_names(translated_tracks)
[['C5', 'E5', 'G#5'], ['B5', 'C6', 'E6']]

Let's make a four part cycling V-I progression.

from tonal.counterpoint import translate_in_scale, create_score_from_tracks
from tonal.util import play_music21_object

motif = [
    "C4 C4".split(),
    "E4 E4".split(),
    "G4 F4".split(),
    "B4 A4".split(),
]

tracks = translate_in_scale(motif, range(7, -14, -1), 'C')
score = create_score_from_tracks(tracks)
score.show()
play_music21_object(score)
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