[HN Gopher] Little Languages for Music (1990) [pdf]
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       Little Languages for Music (1990) [pdf]
        
       Author : 082349872349872
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2023-05-21 08:29 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.usenix.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.usenix.org)
        
       | PennRobotics wrote:
       | For those intrigued by music formats, there are a few modern
       | standards that are far simpler than some of those in the paper:
       | ABC and MusicXML. (ABC is designed to be as readable as possible
       | while maintaining a high degree of control over the output.)
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       | https://www.abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1
        
         | mormegil wrote:
         | And LilyPond? Even though I'm not sure I'd consider it to be a
         | small language...
        
         | onnodigcomplex wrote:
         | Lilypond (a tex inspired music markup language, with scheme
         | integration) is also noteworthy!
        
           | nateburke wrote:
           | Lilypond had such beautiful output, though the amount of time
           | since I have used it can be measured in years--is it still
           | setting the typesetting bar above Finale, Sibelius, etc?
        
         | trbleclef wrote:
         | You can play with ABC in the browser here[1][1a] and with
         | LilyPond here[2].
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         | [1]https://composing.studio/
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         | [1a]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28615418
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         | [2]https://www.hacklily.org/
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | https://csound.com/
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       | Have fun.
        
       | chaosprint wrote:
       | Thanks for sharing this paper. As a music language designer and
       | developer (https://glicol.org/), I have a special feeling about
       | this paper as the research gap mentioned in the abstract is
       | exactly one of my goals: to bridge the note representation and
       | sound synthesis. And there are other axes to consider: real-time
       | audio performance, coding ergonomics, collaborations, etc. There
       | is no doubt that these languages have now become musical
       | interfaces and part of instruments (laptops). And they have now
       | another role: the medium between humans and AI.
        
         | jiangplus wrote:
         | Your project is so awesome. Thanks for sharing.
        
       | nologic01 wrote:
       | An issue with music languages is that they are still,
       | metaphorically speaking, in the ASCII world stage (focusing on
       | encoding the patterns of western music).
       | 
       | The "UTF revolution" (being able to express both the rich ancient
       | traditions of other cultures _and_ modern electronic music) is
       | still somewhere in the future.
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       | That push to include less stylized musical forms could be a very
       | creative process. It forces us to reconsider what are the musical
       | primitives but also to express them in practical and intuitive
       | tokens.
        
         | inciampati wrote:
         | Do you know TidalCycles?
        
           | nologic01 wrote:
           | Now I do. Tx.
        
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