pitchcontext 0.1.9

Library for melody analysis based on pitch context vectors.

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component-id: pitchcontext name: pitchcontext description: Python module for melody analysis based on pitch context vectors. type: SoftwareLibrary release-date: 2023-06-02 release-number: 0.1.9 work-package:

• WP3 pilot:
• TUNES keywords:
  • melody
  • pitch analysis changelog: licence: release link:

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pitchcontext

Python module for melody analysis based on pitch context vectors.

Prerequisites:

• lilypond installed and in command line path.
• convert (ImageMagick) installed and in command line path.
• kernfiles and corresponding .json files with melodic features.

The .json files need to be formatted according to the standard of MTCFeatures.

Installation

The latest release of the pitchcontext module can be installed from pypi:

$ pip install pitchcontext

The development version can be installed by cloning the repository and by using the provided pyproject.toml and poetry. In root of the rep do:

$ poetry install

This creates a virtual environment with pitchcontext installed.

Examples

Requires a Python3 environment with both pitchcontext and streamlit installed. Four examples are provided:

• apps/st_dissonance.py
• apps/st_novelty.py
• apps/st_unharmonicity.py
• apps/st_impliedchords.py

To run:

$ streamlit run st_dissonance.py -- -krnpath <path_to_kern_files> -jsonpath <path_to_json_files>

The -- is needed to pass the following arguments to the python script.