Guido.js provides musical tools for Javascript.
Write music. Morph it. Display it, and play it!
Guido.js provides javascript tools to encode, manipulate, display and play music.
The core of Guido.js is the Guido music notation format, which looks like this:
[ \clef<"treble"> \key<"D"> \meter<"4/4">
a1*1/2 b a/4. g/8 f#/4 g a/2 b a/4. g/8 f#/4 g
a/2 a b c#2/4 d c#/2 b1 a/1 ]
The snippet above might render to something like this:
You can find out more about Guido here: Guido Engine Library Homepage.
Guido.js is just getting started.
The Guido.js project welcomes contributors.
See this wiki page for more information: Contributing to Guido.js .
Guido is named for Guido d'Arezzo, the person widely considered to be the inventor of common western musical notation. See this Wikipedia Article for more information.
(image from Wikipedia)
We like other people named Guido too. Like this one:
- Make it fun and easy to describe music in javascript.
- Create beautiful and legible musical engravings.
- Create beautiful and expressive audio 'performances'.
- Enable the creation of musical tools and services.
- Build a community of musical hackers.
- Make our world more musical.
Guido.js is deeply indebted to the people who create, document, and maintain the C++ Guido Engine library:
- Dominique Fober (current Guido Engine lead)
- Holger H. Hoos
- Kai Renz
- Jürgen Killian
- Keith A. Hamel
- Stéphane Letz
- Yann Orlarey
- J. Scott Amort
- Jérôme Berthet
- Samuel Brochot
- Yannick Chapuis
- Christophe Daudin
- Colas Decron
- Torben Hohn
- Camille Le Roi
- François Levy
- Benjamen Ruprechter
- Mike Solomon
And to:
- The Grame Laboratory, which currently maintains the Guido Engine Library.
- The SALIERI Project, which started GUIDO
- The VexFlow Project, created by Mohit Muthanna, which pioneered music engraving in javascript.
If I (Alex) have missed someone, please let me know. I apologize deeply for any unintended omissions.
Guido.js is spearheaded by Musikata, an online musical education dojo.
If you want to help the world be more musical, drop us a line . We would love to hear from you.