Nodes
Score nodes
The final assembly nodes that combine pitch and rhythm into playable, exportable musical structures.
| Node | Inputs | Outputs | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chord | midicents pitches velocity velocity (default: 80) |
chord | Creates a chord (vertical sonority) from a list of pitches with an associated velocity. Multiple pitches at the same time point become a simultaneous chord in the notation. A single pitch produces a monophonic note. |
| Voice | rhythm-tree rhythm chord chords (list) velocity velocities (optional) articulation articulations (optional) |
voice | The essential output node. Combines a rhythm tree with a sequence of chords to produce a complete musical voice. Chords are assigned to rhythm tree events in order; if there are fewer chords than events, the chord list cycles. The resulting voice can be previewed with MIDI playback and exported to MusicXML. |
Studies that use these nodes
The Rite of Spring — a chord, a cell, and additive meters
The Rite of Spring: the Augurs polychord with its irregular accents, a folk cell whose barline drifts, and…
Petrushka — two keys at once, ostinati out of phase
Petrushka: the C/F♯ polychord split into two clarinets from one node, ostinati of 7, 5 and 3 notes out of…
Requiem Canticles — a rotational array
Requiem Canticles: a hexachord rotated and transposed into six rows, read across for melody and down for the…
The Black Page — statistical density
The Black Page: nested tuplets bar by bar, five against seven, a density envelope thickening the tuplets…
Lyric Pieces — bells, the Grieg motif, a chromatic inner voice
Lyric Pieces: Bell Ringing's stacked open fifths, the Grieg motif falling through the octaves, and a…
Mikrokosmos — Bulgarian rhythm, polymodal chromaticism, the axis
Mikrokosmos: Bulgarian rhythm from the Aksak usûl and changing groupings, Lydian over Phrygian on one tonic…
Out of Doors — The Night's Music
The Night's Music: a cluster thinned by seeded chance, frogs and insects on a sparse grid, bird calls as…
Quatuor pour la fin du Temps — the rhythmic pedal, the palindrome, the modes
Quatuor pour la fin du Temps: 29 chords against 17 durations, non-retrogradable rhythms proved identical to…
Turangalîla — rhythmic characters, the chord of resonance, colour
Turangalîla: rhythmic characters that grow, shrink and stay, the chord of resonance from the harmonic…
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