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If you are a C programmer interested in music or a composer hoping to expand your musical horizons, Computer Music in C provides you with a practical library of algorithms and related C programming functions that will ease your transition into computer-assisted composition. Phil Winsor and Gene DeLisa demonstrate the enormous creative and time-saving potential of computer composition with a collection of plug-in-and-play routines for setting melody, harmony, rhythm, and other musical parameters.
Complete source code and function-call examples are included to help you meet almost all of your compositional needs. Using these functions and utility programs, you will be able to:
- Initialize a pitch data table for conversion of integers to pitch classes, and then display it
- Convert input text to its equivalent musical pitch
- Transform a pitch sequence with reverse-order, mirror inversion, and pitch-level transposition
- Build chords around a central pitch according to input intervals
- Compute simultaneous, ransom-order rhythm duration sequences
- Retrieve multiple, random-order melodic lines from a common pitch bank
- Generate and display all combinations in a 12-tone pitch row
- Compute the number of unique arrangements for a given number of musical elements