Musica Toolkit

Overview

Musica is a free and open source (*) computational music toolkit written in Python covering several topics from music theory, audio analysis to high quality figure generation.

(*) Musica is licensed under GPLv3 therms.

Musica requires Python 3 and works on Linux, Windows and OS X.

To read more on Musica

News

What’s changed in versions

Installation

How to install Musica on your system

User FAQ

Answers to frequent questions

Examples

Many examples to learn how to use Musica.

Development & Community

How to contribute to the project

API Documentation

Technical reference material, for classes, methods, APIs, commands.

How to Refer to Musica ?

Guidelines to cite Musica

How to Help Further ?

If you want to donate to the project or need a more professional support.

Table of Contents

• 1. Overview
  • 1.1. What is Musica ?
  • 1.2. How does Musica compare to Music21 ?
  • 1.3. How is Musica licensed ?
  • 1.4. Going further with Musica
  • 1.5. Which platforms are supported by Musica ?
  • 1.6. How to install Musica ?
  • 1.7. Which version of Python is required ?
• 2. News
  • 2.1. V0 2017-10-01
• 3. Roadmap
• 4. Installation
  • 4.1. On Windows
  • 4.2. On Linux
  • 4.3. On OSX
  • 4.4. Installation from PyPi Repository
  • 4.5. Install a more recent version from Github
  • 4.6. Installation from Source
  • 4.7. Dependencies
• 5. User FAQ
  • 5.1. How to get help or report an issue ?
• 6. Definitions of terms
• 7. Figures
  • 7.1. Diatonic Scale
  • 7.2. Piano Keyboard
  • 7.3. Guitar Fretboard
• 8. Examples
  • 8.1. Acoustic
    • 8.1.1. Acoustic Beat
  • 8.2. Audio
    • 8.2.1. Find the Pitch of a Vibrating String
  • 8.3. Temperament
    • 8.3.1. Pythagorean Tuning compared to 12-TET
    • 8.3.2. Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament
• 9. Design Notes
  • 9.1. General Design
    • 9.1.1. Coding Philosophy
    • 9.1.2. Internationalisation
    • 9.1.3. Music Theory Implementation
    • 9.1.4. Figure Generation
    • 9.1.5. MusicXML
  • 9.2. Coding
    • 9.2.1. Copy constructor
• 10. API Documentation
  • 10.1. Musica
    • 10.1.1. Audio
    • 10.1.2. Config
    • 10.1.3. Figure
    • 10.1.4. Geometry
    • 10.1.5. Instrument
    • 10.1.6. Locale
    • 10.1.7. Logging
    • 10.1.8. Math
    • 10.1.9. Midi
    • 10.1.10. MusicXML
    • 10.1.11. Notation
    • 10.1.12. Tex
    • 10.1.13. Theory
    • 10.1.14. Xml
  • 10.2. Indexes
• 11. Development & Community
  • 11.1. How you can help ?
  • 11.2. Contributors
• 12. How to Refer to Musica ?
• 13. How to Help Further ?
• 14. Related Projects
  • 14.1. Music21
  • 14.2. Other projects
• 15. Bibliography