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Music Theory


image Chord Space Exploration Tool (CSET) is for teaching music theory. The student navigates through multidimensional chord lattices labelled in O, OP, OPT, and OPTI symmetry, optionally building playlists along the way. Choice of instrument to dimension mappings. Java 1.3.

Updated 2006-04.



image Fractal Music Composer is a powerful music editor. Students build their own musical phrases out of notes from their choice of multiple keys and musical scales. Compositions are built from notes and phrases playing on assorted instruments. Fractal editing operations create self-similar sequences across different time and sound scales. Students can save MIDI output of their creations, which can play their music on almost any computer. Java 1.4.

Click to listen to a sample composition made by applying fractal operations on the two Pachelbel's Canon phrases shown at left.

Revised 2007-04, orig 2004-09.

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