Stephane Boussuge

Thanks a lot Stéphane!

Thanks Stéphane!
Peter
 

I agree totally 🙂
 
SB

Hi Achim,
 
many possible ways but I did a function for my own usage for piano split.
 
Here's the function with doc in French !  🙂
 
All the best !
 
Stéphane
split-point.lisp split-point.rtfd.zip

Please make documentation for it, then we can add the chord list into the system and not Libraries.

Dear Janusz,
 
I think that this could be a good thing to really implement in Opusmodus. I´m  finetuning it, because it involves not only a programming point of view, but also a theoretical and compositional way of thinking music. I feel that it deserves a better explanation, because a lot of chord symbols are based on my experience and also based in my Combinatorial Harmony Book.
 
After the finetuning, I´m going to make an video explanation of it, to make the things clearer. 
If you are interested we can build something to include in the current library of Opusmodus. 
 
All the best !
Julio

5, 7 min is not acceptable 🙂
 
Please send me the entier file with all the chords (compressed by email) and I will have a look.

Here's the material score and output of this session.
 
Happy studies !
 
S.
 
 
NonLinear Reflection.mp3 NonLinear Reflection - Partition complète.pdf DanielFuncDef.opmo RenéWohNonLinear.opmo

Done in 2.1.25905
 

I will add this option to the next release.

Thank you very much, dear Stéphane, that was very interesting.

2.1.25892
 
– Fixed:
Stop playback with <Cmd>-<Escape>, will no longer append MIDI entry input as if you were in a chord or the sustain pedal was down.
 
– Changes:
Revised attributes list entry.
Pitch-Bend Down-Half is now assign to attributes.
Pitch-Bend Up-Half is now assign to velocities.
 
– Documentation
Revised MIDI Entry document.
 

 
Best wishes,
Janusz

Hi everybody,
Here are the files from session 7.
Happy Opusmodusing !
Stéphane
 
Counterpoint27062020.opmo Unfold1-27062020.opmo Rules1-27062020.opmo

If your goal is for you as a teacher to create documents for your students to read containing Common Lisp and Opusmodus code, and where you want to evaluate the code directly from within that document, then Org mode with embedded Common Lisp + Slime is your friend. This is a very powerful combination, that can automatically create nice slides (with the LaTeX beamer interface), embed music notation (Lilypond) etc. I used this combination for years for teaching, had then all sessions of a course in a single document for easily moving content around etc.
 
Nevertheless, you likely do not want to introduce your students to use Org mode... For that, Jupyter notebooks (or plain Opusmodus) will be more easy for the students.
 
Org mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text
ORGMODE.ORG Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring  
Babel: active code in Org-mode
ORGMODE.ORG  
However, I don't know of a way to automatically embed music notation output of Opusmodus in Emacs Org mode. What is missing for that, AFAIK, is some Opusmodus function that automatically creates a graphic file for a given snippet or score. If that would be there, that feature shouldn't be too hard to add (other Org mode babel programming language interfaces do already similar things, e.g., Lilypond, and the code for that is freely available).

Hi everybody,
Here are the files from session 7.
Happy Opusmodusing !
Stéphane
 
Counterpoint27062020.opmo Unfold1-27062020.opmo Rules1-27062020.opmo

Hi everybody,
Here are the files from session 7.
Happy Opusmodusing !
Stéphane
 
Counterpoint27062020.opmo Unfold1-27062020.opmo Rules1-27062020.opmo

MIDI ENTRY
 
To start the MIDI input into your score file, select the command MIDI Entry from the Tools menu. When MIDI Entry is ON, the Listener echo bar will change to orange:
 

 
Now you know the MIDI Entry is ON. Depending on the position of the pitch-bend wheel and the modulation wheel as well as the position of the sustain pedal the colour of the Listener echo bar will change.
 
To make the MIDI Entry as functional as possible there are a number of commands that will increase the speed of your work without the need to move away form your MIDI keyboard.
 
Every entry is octave independent, except the pitch entry.
 

 
 Pitch                                  
Enter pitch symbols and chords into your score.
 
 Length and Tuplet                      
Pitch-Bend: Up-Full
C 1 D 1/2 E 1/4 F 1/8 G 1/16 A 1/32 B 1/64 Cs 3 Ds 5 Fs 6 Gs 7 Bb 9  
 Length-rest and Tuplet                 
Pitch-Bend: Down-Full
C -1 D -1/2 E -1/4 F -1/8 G -1/16 A -1/32 B -1/64 Cs -3 Ds -5 Fs -6 Gs -7 Bb -9  
 Velocity                               
Pitch-Bend: UP-Half
C   pppp Cs  ppp D   pp Eb  p E   mp F   mf Fs  f G   ff Gs fff A   ffff Bb < B   >  
 Attribute                              
Pitch-Bend: Down-Half
C stacc Cs ord D marc Eb fermata E mart F ten Fs pizz G leg Gs trem A tie Bb ped1 B ped  
 Microtonality and Commands             
Modulation Wheel: Up
Add a microtonal symbol next to the pitch symbol.
 
F   + G   - A   . B   .. C   parenthesis pair D   open parenthesis E   close parenthesis Cs move forward char Eb move backward char Fs delete backward char Gs undo Bb new line and indent Note: If you enable MIDI input with the modulation wheel up, you need to move it down and up again in order for it to be considered up.
 
Entries with Sustain Pedal Down
 
 Pitch                                  
Add a pitch symbol next to the previous pitch (chord).
 
 Length and Tuplet                      
Pitch-Bend: Up-Full
Add a length entry to the previous length value (combine length).
 
 Length-rest and Tuplet                 
Pitch-Bend: Down-Full
Add a length-rest entry to the previous rest value (combine length).
 
 Velocity                               
Pitch-Bend: Up-Half
Add < or > dynamic symbol to the previous velocity value.
 
 Attribute                              
Pitch-Bend: Down-Half
Add (+) attribute to the previous attribute value (combine attributes).
 
Examples:
c4e4g4 Enter a chord c4e4g4 on your MIDI keyboard or pitch by pitch: c4 e4 g4 with sustain pedal down. (q c4 mp e4 g4) 1. Modulation wheel up then C => () 2. PB-UpF then E => (q) 3. Enter c4 => (q c4) 4. PB-UpH then E => (q c4 mp) 5. Enter e4 then g4 => (q c4 mp e4 g4) (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata+trem) 1. Modulation wheel up then C => () 2. PB-UpF then E => (q) 3. Enter c4 => (q c4) 4. PB-UpH then E => (q c4 mp) 5. Enter e4 => (q c4 mp e4) 6. PB-DnH then C => (q c4 mp e4 stacc) 7. Enter g4 => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4) 8. PB-UpH then Eb => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p) 9. PB-DnH then Eb => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata) 10. PB-DnH then Gs + sustain => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata+trem) (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata+trem 3q c4 eb4 fs4) 1. Modulation wheel up then C => () 2. PB-UpF then E => (q) 3. Enter c4 => (q c4) 4. PB-UpH then E => (q c4 mp) 5. Enter e4 => (q c4 mp e4) 6. PB-DnH then C => (q c4 mp e4 stacc) 7. Enter g4 => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4) 8. PB-UpH then Eb => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p) 9. PB-DnH then Eb => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata) 10. PB-DnH then Gs + sustain => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata+trem) 11. PB-UpF Cs/E (chord) => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata+trem 3q) 12. Enter c4 then eb4 then fs4 => (q c4 mp e4 stacc g4 p fermata+trem 3q c4 eb4 fs4) Best wishes,
Janusz

Hi folks,
here's the file from the last session.
 
Happy study !
Stéphane
 
FromNothingSuite-20-06-2020.opmo

Build-in Slime in Opusmodus coming soon.
Here is the 'Emacs-Slime Setup.lisp' extension file:
;;;--------------------------------------------------------- ;;; SLIME in Opusmodus ;;;--------------------------------------------------------- #! ;;; HOWTO If you're accustomed to Emacs and Common Lisp, you may prefer SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, to editing lisp in regular Opusmodus windows and its listener. There are a number of places to get Emacs for MacOS. One that works well is:   https://emacsforosx.com SLIME ships with Opusmodus, in the "/Applications/Opusmodus.app/Contents/Resources/third-party/slime" directory. There are two parts to Slime:   1. Swank, the server, a Common Lisp system, which runs inside      of the Opusmodus App.   2. Slime, the client, which is an Emacs lisp package. To start the Swank server when Opusmodus starts, comment out the (start-swank) form at the end of this file, and restart Opusmodus (or execute (start-swank) in the Listener to do it now, but not next time Opusmodus starts). To load Slime into your Emacs, define the following in your ~/.emacs startup file:   (load "/Applications/Opusmodus.app/Contents/Resources/third-party/slime/emacs-opusmodus.el")   (load-opusmodus-slime) If you want to use the Mac Command key for Emacs meta, instead of the default of the Mac Option key, and make C-o in dired open the file at point, in the Mac application that is assigned for editing that type of file, also add, after that:   (opusmodus-options) Then, restart Emacs, and do 'm-x slime-connect'. For Host, use the default of localhost. For Port, use 4005, or the port you specified in the (start-swank) call. 4005 will likely be the default. With (ignore-errors (slime-connect "localhost" 4005)) in your ~/.emacs startup file, the slime will start automatically at Emacs start. A "*slime-repl ccl*" buffer should appear. You can get to that buffer at any time with 'c-c s r' in Emacs. It is a read-eval-print loop, executing inside the Opusmodus App. Use it just as you do the Opusmodus Listener. There are some Opusmodus commands that may be executed from Emacs. They are all on the "om-selector", accessible via "C-c o". That will bring up a query for a single character ("Select [?alqsv]"). You may type one of: ?:    Show this help buffer. a:    Audition and Notation (snippet). l:    Audition and Notation last score. q:    Quit selector. s:    Stop audition. v:    Voices Audition and Notation (snippet). The "snippet" is the lisp form before the insertion point, as in Opusmodus. The commands (other than ? and q) behave as the like-named commands in the Opusmodus Tools/Snippet menu, except they open a new (reusable) notation window, instead of a new notation panel. When connected to Slime, errors in the Opusmodus Listener will bring up a backtrace dialog in the connected Emacs, NOT the CCL debugger in the Listener. Be careful to use the "Return to toplevel" restart from there, not one of the ones that kills the thread, or you'll break your Opusmodus, and will have to restart it. !# ;;; End of HOWTO ;; To start the Swank server when Opusmodus starts, you need to ;; uncomment the (start-swank) expression below: It can take a first ;; arg to change the port from the default of 4005, and a second arg ;; to change the directory from which to load Swank from the default ;; of inside the application bundle (you should only do this if you ;; need to run a different version of Swank, to be compatible with a ;; different version of Slime in your Emacs). (in-package :om) ; (start-swank) Janusz

Great !!
I love the humour too !
All the best !
 
Stéphane

WHY I USE OPUSMODUS SOFTWARE IN MY MUSICAL COMPOSITION PROCESS
 
In this video I will describe some of the techniques I used in my compositional process and why I decided to use OPUSMODUS Software for compose music ! Also my experience with Pure Data and Nodal Software before moving to Opusmodus.
 
 
 
 

another p.s. - Ernst Levy's book is available on google play 
A Theory of Harmony
BOOKS.GOOGLE.DE In this introduction to natural-base music theory, Ernst Levy presents the essentials of a comprehensive, consistent theory of harmony developed from tone structure. A Theory of Harmony is a highly original explanation of the harmonic language of the last few centuries, showing the way toward an understanding of diverse styles of music. Basic harmony texts exist, but none supply help to students seeking threads of logic in the...  
My favorite book on the subject is David Lewin's:
Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1987. Reprinted, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  

Hi folks,
here's the file from the last session.
 
Happy study !
Stéphane
 
FromNothingSuite-20-06-2020.opmo

Hi folks,
here's the file from the last session.
 
Happy study !
Stéphane
 
FromNothingSuite-20-06-2020.opmo