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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Parse rpip7 musical notation
Parse rpip7 musical notation
rpip7 is a minimalist music notation derived from ip7, designed for simple playback (for example, on an Arduino with a buzzer).
It supports only these symbols:
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Play the Weezer lick [closed]
Your task is: Using features of your language of choice, play the Weezer lick (in whatever form).
Inforamtion:
The Weezer lick is a fragment of the song "Buddy Holly" by Weezer.
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Play the Final Fantasy Prelude
Play the initial section of the Final Fantasy Prelude. This is a 4-octave up-down arpeggio of the following chords:
Cadd2, Amadd2, Cadd2, Amadd2, Fadd2, Gadd2, G♯maj7, A♯maj7
Rules:
Actual sound must ...
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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
Output this table:
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You can output one string with two types of split, ...
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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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