Music
still a big mess
See also a lot of Audio
General
to sort
Psychology
Theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory - the study of the practices and possibilities of music. It is derived from observation of, and involves hypothetical speculation about how musicians and composers make music. The term also describes the academic study and analysis of fundamental elements of music such as pitch, rhythm, harmony, and form, and refers to descriptions, concepts, or beliefs related to music. Because of the ever-expanding conception of what constitutes music (see Definition of music), a more inclusive definition could be that music theory is the consideration of any sonic phenomena, including silence, as it relates to music.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_tuning
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_temperament
- http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/242733/what-is-octave-equivalence
- http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/44469/octave-equivalence-biological-or-more
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_scale
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_and_chromatic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale
kind of blue, miles davis
- https://github.com/saebekassebil/teoria
- http://acarabott.github.com/teoria/ - chrome sound fork
firefox;
- http://www.toverlamp.org/static/wickisynth/wickisynth.html
- http://code.gregjopa.com/html5/audio/music.js/tuning/
- http://tonalsoft.com/enc/number/31edo.aspx
- http://cnx.org/content/m11639/latest/
- http://www.midicode.com/tunings/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning
- http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~bdenckla/thesis/texts/htthe/node25.html
- http://www.skytopia.com/project/scale.html
- http://www.drumbot.com/projects/key_chords/
- http://www.updike.org/uchord4/
- https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p31a0PLmUWUiwYILN4F-_MQ&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Training
Notation
See also Audio#Formats
- semibreve, 4/4
- minim, 2/4
- crotchet, 1/4
- semi-quaver, 1/8
- etc.
- SMuFL - Standard Music Font Layout. Steinberg.
- Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes. There are other, secondary, things it can do, such as improvise on its own. It has also been used for transcription. Because rhythm-section (e.g. piano, bass, drums) accompaniment is automatically generated from chords, Impro-Visor can be used as a play-along device. Now having a wider array of accompaniment styles, its use is not limited to jazz.
Rhythm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm - (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry" (Liddell and Scott 1996)) generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions" (Anon. 1971, 2537). This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to millions of years.
In the performance arts rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spoken language and poetry. Rhythm may also refer to visual presentation, as "timed movement through space" (Jirousek 1995,[page needed]) and a common language of pattern unites rhythm with geometry. In recent years, rhythm and meter have become an important area of research among music scholars. Recent work in these areas includes books by Maury Yeston (1976), Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff (Lerdahl and Jackendoff 1983), Jonathan Kramer, Christopher Hasty (1997), Godfried Toussaint (2005), William Rothstein (1989), and Joel Lester (Lester 1986).
In Thinking and Destiny, Harold W. Percival defined rhythm as the character and meaning of thought expressed through the measure or movement in sound or form, or by written signs or words (Percival 1946, 1006).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(music) - of music is its rhythmic structure, the patterns of accents heard in regularly recurring measures of stressed and unstressed beats (arsis and thesis) at the frequency of the music's pulse.
A variety of systems exist throughout the world for organising and playing metrical music, such as the Indian system of tala and similar systems in Arabian and African music.
Western music inherited the concept of metre from poetry (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002b) where it denotes: the number of lines in a verse; the number of syllables in each line; and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002b). The first coherent system of rhythmic notation in modern Western music was based on rhythmic modes derived from the basic types of metrical unit in the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry (Hoppin 1978, 221).
Later music for dances such as the pavane and galliard consisted of musical phrases to accompany a fixed sequence of basic steps with a defined tempo and time signature. The English word "measure", originally an exact or just amount of time, came to denote either a poetic rhythm, a bar of music, or else an entire melodic verse or dance (Merriam-Webster 2015) involving sequences of notes, words, or movements that may last four, eight or sixteen bars.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_rhythm_and_divisive_rhythm - terms used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter. A divisive (or, more commonly, multiplicative) rhythm is a rhythm in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units or, conversely, some integer unit is regularly multiplied into larger, equal units; this can be contrasted with additive rhythm, in which larger periods of time are constructed by concatenating (joining end to end) a series of units into larger units of unequal length, such as a 5/8 meter produced by the regular alternation of 2/8 and 3/8 (London 2001, §I.8). When applied to meters, the terms "perfect" and "imperfect" are sometimes used as the equivalents of "divisive" and "additive", respectively (Read 1969, 150).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_beat - a rhythmic pattern, or repeated rhythm establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drum kits and other percussion instruments. As such a "beat" consists of multiple drum strokes occurring over multiple musical beats while the term "drum beat" may also refer to a single drum stroke which may occupy more or less time than the current pulse. Many drum beats define or are characteristic of specific music genres.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pattern - a rhythmic pattern, often a key pattern (also known as a guide pattern, phrasing referent, timeline, or asymmetrical timeline), struck on an Idiophone, in most cases, a metal bell, such as an agogô, gankoqui, or cowbell, or a hollowed piece of wood, or wooden claves. In contemporary music, bell patterns are also played on the metal shell of the timbales, and drum kit cymbals.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clave_(rhythm) - a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Afro-Cuban music. It is present in a variety of genres such as Abakuá music, rumba, conga, son, mambo, salsa, songo, timba and Afro-Cuban jazz. The five-stroke clave pattern represents the structural core of many Afro-Cuban rhythms.
The clave pattern originated in sub-Saharan African music traditions, where it serves essentially the same function as it does in Cuba. In ethnomusicology, clave is also known as a key pattern, guide pattern, phrasing referent, timeline, or asymmetrical timeline. The clave pattern is also found in the African diaspora musics of Haitian Vodou drumming, Afro-Brazilian music, African American music which is known as Hambone and also found in Louisiana Voodoo drumming as well as Afro-Uruguayan music (candombe). The clave or known in the United States as hambone pattern is used in North American popular music as a rhythmic motif or simply a form of rhythmic decoration.
- A Dictionary of Exotic Rhythms - With a brief note on their combinatorial properties. Mike Keith.
- From Polychords to Pólya: Adventures in Musical Combinatorics (1991) by Michael Keith
- PDF: The Geometry of Musical Rhythm - Godfried Toussaint
- PDF: Mathematical Features for Recognizing Preferencein Sub-Saharan African Traditional Rhythm Timelines - Godfried Toussaint
- Tempo Mental - by Steve Vai
Euclidean
- PDF: The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms - Godfried Toussaint
- PDF: The Geometry of Musical Rhythm - Godfried Toussaint
- http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/Percussive-Notes-Web.pdf
- PDF: The Distance Geometry of Music - Godfried Toussaint, et al, 2007
- YouTube: Euclidean Rhythms - finishes in a modular synth context - 4:24
- YouTube: "Killer Rhythms", Part 2: Godfried Toussaint's Euclidean Rhythms - 12:59
Polyrhythm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-rhythm - or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm. The term cross rhythm was introduced in 1934 by the musicologist Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980). The technique of cross-rhythm is a simultaneous use of contrasting rhythmic patterns within the same scheme of accents or meter … By the very nature of the desired resultant rhythm, the main beat scheme cannot be separated from the secondary beat scheme. It is the interplay of the two elements that produces the cross-rhythmic texture.
- http://test.hemiola.com/polyrhythm/ - very basic poly rhythm generator. use Reload setting, doesn't drop beats.
Structure
Historical
Mixes and shows
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkfp - EM
- http://www.astateoftrance.com/
- http://www.shitmixtapes.com/podcast/
etc,,,,
- http://gabber.od.ua/ - from mmj
Specific
Torrent
- https://themixingbowl.org - radio 1 essential mix, etc, a state of trance, everything major and many minor
mixes
- psychill, psybient, technoid, funky dubby glitchy brakey electro etc.
- kilowatts, bluetech, kattoo, gridlock, µ-Ziq [11]Siege of Antioch, beefcake
- http://artmeetsscience.co.uk/tapes/ -old skool rave
Sets
Blogs
- http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/
- http://illformed.org/
- http://pelski.co.uk/
- http://www.cavacool.com/
- http://wiels.com/blog/
- http://www.noiseporn.com/
Labels
Performance
- Director Musices - a rule system for music performance. The point of this system is to take a musical score and make it sound like a real person is playing. This is accomplished by applying a set of relatively simple rules. Director Musices for Java, glued together with Clojure and armed bear Common Lisp.
- Overtone Music Network is a free multifunctional portal and platform for overtone music and for all who enjoy this kind of overtone music. It is for all who are interested in the magic of harmonic, diphonic and overtone music.
Instruments
See also Drumming#Other
Singing
- Canta is a software that helps you develop your vocal talents. It will give you singing lessons while you have fun singing your favorite songs.
- polyphonic overtone singing - Anna-Maria Hefele
- overtone singing- lesson 1: basics by Anna-Maria Hefele
- overtone singing- lesson 2: next step by Anna-Maria Hefele
- overtone singing- lesson 3: filtering the overtones by Anna-Maria Hefele
- overtone singing- lesson 4: r-technique by Anna-Maria Hefele
- overtone singing- lesson 5: l-technique by Anna-Maria Hefele
Wind
Pick instrument with suitable note and octave range and/or texture and learn it. At some point.
- YouTube: Trumpet From A Tube
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife_(instrument)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whistle
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument)
Harmonica
String
Guitar
- Guitar Exerciser - A program to help guitar players develop their skills
other
Electronic
Styles
See also Genres
- Music21 - a set of tools for helping scholars and other active listeners answer questions about music quickly and simply. If you’ve ever asked yourself a question like, “I wonder how often Bach does that” or “I wish I knew which band was the first to use these chords in this order,” or “I’ll bet we’d know more about Renaissance counterpoint (or Indian ragas or post-tonal pitch structures or the form of minuets) if I could write a program to automatically write more of them,” then music21 can help you with your work.
Folk
- http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/projects - Mike B's work project
Classical
- http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_H%C3%A1ba - microtonality
- http://chrisvaisvil.com/
- http://notesfromtheinvisiblescore.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/minimal-mysticism-analyzing-arvo-parts.html
- http://www.cnvill.net/mfkgann2.htm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niz8TfY794 - serialism, patterns
Electronic
Recommendations
- http://last.fm - nee audioscrobbler
Collaborative
- https://milq.com/about - playlist app
Business
Free
- http://www.jamendo.com/en/
- http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/collections.php
- http://luckylionstudios.com/royalty-free-video-game-music-library/
- http://www.chibola.com/crfml/
- http://www.mobygratis.com/
- https://musopen.org/
- http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page International Music Score Library Project.
- http://free-loops.com/
- http://primeloops.com/customer/account/create/
- http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-samples.php
Software
See also Audio#Visualisation
- https://github.com/sampsyo/beets - autotagger
- Music21 is a set of tools for helping scholars and other active listeners answer questions about music quickly and simply. If you’ve ever asked yourself a question like, “I wonder how often Bach does that” or “I wish I knew which band was the first to use these chords in this order,” or “I’ll bet we’d know more about Renaissance counterpoint (or Indian ragas or post-tonal pitch structures or the form of minuets) if I could write a program to automatically write more of them,” then music21 can help you with your work.
- https://github.com/mrspeaker/grindcraft - A Minecraft soundtrack for your daily grind.
Lyrics
Karaoke
- BlitzLoop is an open source karaoke system inspired by Japanese karaoke machines. It uses a custom song format and supports multiple lyrics display styles, background videos, real-time audio stretching and pitch shifting, and also handles microphone echo. It is written in Python and Cython and uses OpenGL graphics on the host box, while the UI is remotely accessed through a web browser (e.g. running on a tablet).
Services
MiR
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