Video 6a: Music Representation (III): Unlocking Pitch in music21

MIT 21M.383 Computational Music Theory and Analysis Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
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This video describes how to unlock your first module in music21: pitch. All functions of the pitch.Pitch object will be unlocked except those with “transpose” in their name.

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