harmonic-melodies

What is this?

• A concise, programmatic description of Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
• Searches against Slonimsky's thesaurus
• More thesaurus-like functionality, across several axes of similarity (interval patterns, musical harmony...)

Dependencies

• ghc
• Euterpea
• A midi player

Installing ghc

On *-nix, see your package manager. For Mac, this may be useful: ghc.

Installing Euterpea

You can do so with the following commands:

cabal update

cabal install Euterpea

midi players

For Linux you can use timidity++. For Mac you can use SimpleSynth. For more information look here.

Getting Started

1. If you have Linux start your midi player:

$ timidity -A90 -iA -Os &

You might also need to make sure the snd_dummy module isn't loaded: # [[ lsmod | grep -q snd_dummy ]] && rmmod snd_dummy

If you have a Mac you will need to start your midi player.

2. Start ghci and load Slonimsky.hs:

ghci> :load Slonimsky.hs

3. Play something from the thesaurus:

ghci> playList $ take 10 $ slonimsky (C,4) 4 [-7,-4,2]

Sound should happen. If not, restart timidity and try again.