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Developing Classical Music Amitai Schlair @schmonz Student-piece #1 (draft score) 2007/12/05 piano Amitai Schlair 4 = 56 singing

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Developing  Classical Music

Amitai Schlair @schmonz

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Student-piece #1 (draft score)

2007/12/05 piano

Amitai Schlair

= 56
mp
singing
4

with pedal
3
mf
p
p
5
mf
sfp
slower, with humor
accelerating
7
singing
3

3 3 3 3 3

9
back in tempo
3

3 3 3 3 3

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2 piano

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

12
secretly agitated
3

3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3

mf
f
decelerating
ff
8va
18
faster (enough to flow)
fugato

21
and decelerating
decelerating
p
f
24
back in tempo
mf

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piano 3

3 3 3 3 3 3

27
singing
mp
Tempo I
C
3

3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

33
decelerating
3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

mp
35
back in tempo
37

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4 piano

39
decelerating
p
41

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“Composing is like programming”

Maybe true in some ways
Not necessarily interesting
Most things are a little bit like other things
(Look up “Schmonz’s Theorem” sometime)
For me, nothing actionable

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“Programming helps with composing”

Probably true in some ways
Electronic music: certainly
Rules of harmony and counterpoint: maybe
Other rules I haven’t consciously identified: nope
Also glowing rectangles eat (some of) my brain
For me, nothing actionable

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Minimum Viable Piece

My first serious composition
Old school
Development: 75 hours
Staging: a few hours
Deployment: 3.5 minutes

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“Programmer tools help ship music”

For me, true!
LilyPond: a versioned DSL for notating music
(Guile for tweaking LilyPond’s rendering behavior)
Vim: split-window, syntax, “compile”
Git: defend my life’s work

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“Programmer thinking helps ship music”

For me, true!
Compiler feedback: bar lines where expected
Eye feedback: be neat, one bar per line, diffs
Ear feedback: render to MIDI

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“Programming practices help ship music”

I sure wish this were true
On average, compose 1 minute in 21.5 hours?!?!
I’m a beginner at composing
The feedback loops are way too big

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Want a beer?

Show me how to write music using outside-in TDD
I will be forever grateful
Also I bet cognitive scientists will be interested

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Developing  Classical Music

Amitai Schlair @schmonz