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jMusic Tutorials and Lessons These tutorials will guide you through some of the compositional possibilities of jMusic and, along the way, provide an insight into the Java language, computer music composition, and digital audio. There are individual tutorials and tours. The individual tutorials are generally arranged from simple to complex. If you are new to jMusic then we suggest you take a tour. Guided tours are pathways through the tutorials selected by experienced jMusic users. Enjoy. Andrew Sorensen and Andrew Brown. Tutorial Index Guided Tours Background Getting Started Getting Fancy Getting Sound Getting Algorithmic Guided Tours Quickstart Tour - Just the highlights. Dots and Dashes - A step by step introduction to jMusic data and representations. Building Apreggiators - From the simple to the complex in small steps. Extended Drums - Abstracting and extending classes to reduce repetition of code. Music By Number - Building blocks for algorithmic composition. Basic Game - Introduction to music for Java computer games. The First Few Steps - The process from compiling to composing. Pop Music Tour - Implementing Contemporary Music. Compositional Philosophy Tour - Confront the big ideas. Individual Tutorials Background Introduction jMusic basics 1. What is jMusic? 6. Constants - The JMC 2. Some jMusic basics 7. Basic Methods for manipulating data 3. Music Composition and the computer 8. Compositional Tools and Utilities 4. Make it go Bing! 9. Using jMusic in Win 95/98 5. jMusic Setup 10. 6. The data structure 11. Getting Started Making Melodies Making Rhythms Musical Structure 1. Chromatic Scale 21. Random Rhythm 41. Repeating 2. Round / Cannon 22. Random Rhythm Patterns 42. Up - Down, Left - Right 3. Phasing 23. Multiple Random Patterns 43. Motif Textures 4. Sketch display 24. Windchimes 44. Modifcations 5. ShowScore 25. Generate and Test 45. Sequences 6. Chorale 26. Meter 46. Chord Progression 7. Stochastic Melody 27. Drum Machine 47. Form & Arrangements 8. Modal Pitch Constraints 28. Dynamic Compressor 48. Reading and using MIDI files 9. Random Walk 29. 49. CloudX 10. Gamelan 30. 50. Dynamic Mix 11. Sinewave melodic contour 31. Utilities 51. Intervalic Modifications 12. Showing Parts and Phrases 32. The Helper GUI 52. Scatter Phrases 13. Directions 33. MidiTest - Setting up MIDI I/O 53. Following Phrases 14. Common Practice Notation 34. 54. Journey 15. Inputting music as CPN 35. 55. Ordering Phrases Around 16. A melody from lyrics 36. 56. Diatonic Transposition 17. Updated CPN display features 37. 57. 18. 38. 58. 19. 39. 59. 20. 40. 60. Getting Fancy Multiple Methods & Classes Graphical User Interfaces Analysis 1. Extended Drum Kit 16. Java Window Frames 31. Simple MIDI Analysis 2. Static Drum Kit 17. Simple GUI_1 32. Read and reuse MIDI files 3. Object Drum Kit 18. Simple GUI 2 33. Phrase Analysis App. 4. Build a Library of Methods 19. Simple GUI 3 34. Histograms 5. Jazz Combo 20. Simple GUI 4 35. Phrase Chord Analysis 6. Abstract Drums 21. Simple GUI 5 - Swing 36. 7. Trio 22. GUI with file dialog 37. 8. Working with jm files 23. GUI & ShowScore 38. 9. Pieces of Wood - Reich 24. jMusical Applets 39. 10. MIDI Remixer 25. jm-808 40. 11. 26. Menus and Key commands 41. 12. 27. jm-550 no GUI 42. 13. 28. jm-550 awt 43. 14. 29. jm-550 awt 2 44. 15. 30. jm-550 awt 3 45. Getting Sound Audio Synthesis Signal Processing Real Time 1. Rendering a note 10. Additive Synthesis 19. Read and write data 28. Getting sound in Real Time 2. jMusic Audio 101 11. Amplitude Modulation 20. Compression 29. Real-time architecture 3. Pitch in hertz 12. Subtractive Synthesis 21. FFT 30. Controlling note and synthesis parameters 4. Audio Drum Kit 13. FM Synthesis 22. 31. JavaSound MIDI playback. 5. Melody and Accompaniment 14. Plucked String 23. Spectral Analysis 32. Creating realtime instruments 6. Chorale Audio 15. UPIC-like sine arcs 24. Pitch Tracking 33. MIDI output with MidiShare 7. Spray 16. Ring Modulation 25. Beat Tracking 34. MIDI input with MidiShare 8. Creating a new instrument 17. Granular Synthesis 26. 35. 9. Inside Audio Objects 18. Spring-mass physical modelling 27. 36. 10. Rendering mutiple parts 19. Parallel oscillators 28. 37. 11. Tuning Systems 20. Oscillator detuning 29. 38. Getting Algorithmic Mathematical Functions Recombination Generative Processes Rule-based 1. Stochastic 11. 21. Cellular Automata 31. Species Counterpoint 2. Chaos Theory Melody 12. Mozart Dice Game 22. Bass Mutation 32. Arvoish, Pärt-like 3. Multi-part Chaos 13. Band Machine 23. Genetic Algorithms 33. Melodic Extension 4. Fractal Melody 14. Associative Transition Networks 24. Phrase Crossover 34. Guido Word Music 5. Probability 15. Stochastic Matrix 25. Neural Nets 35. Constraint Satisfaction 6. Spiral Music 16. Markov 1 26. Rhythmic Automata 36. ATNs 7. Fuzzy Logic 17. Markov 2 27. 37. 8. 18. 28. 38. 9. 19. 29. 39. 10. 20. 30. 40.

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