Video 7b: Streams as Hierarchies: Types of Containers in music21

MIT 21M.383 Computational Music Theory and Analysis Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
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A one-minute introduction to the differences between Containers (such as Streams) and Leafs (such as Elements, Music21Objects, or Notes) as used in computational music theory.

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