.. include:: abbreviation.txt .. include:: project-links.txt .. _overview-page: ========== Overview ========== What is Musica ? ---------------- 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 features: .. include:: features.txt How does Musica compare to Music21 ? ------------------------------------ Music21 is an impressive music theory Python package, but it seems to be developed by a research team to perform musicology researches. This aim has a strong implication on the way Music21 was developed. In comparison Musica has a different audience, since it is not actually designed to do musicology researches. I also have a different background since I have a strong scientific and software development background, rather than an expertise in musicology. .. analyse scores .. Musica targets a larger scope How is Musica licensed ? ------------------------ Musica is licensed under the `GPLv3 `_. Going further with Musica ------------------------- The best way to know what you can do with Musica, and to learn it, is to look at the examples: * :ref:`Musica Reference Manual ` .. * :ref:`Exemples ` .. * :ref:`Bibliography ` Which platforms are supported by Musica ? ----------------------------------------- Musica runs on Linux, Windows 64-bit and Mac OS X. How to install Musica ? ----------------------- The procedure to install Musica is described in the :ref:`Installation Manual `. Which version of Python is required ? ------------------------------------- Musica requires Python 3 and the version 3.5 is recommended so as to benefit from the new *@* syntax for units.