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maelzel
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**maelzel** is a framework for computer music in python. It provides
datatypes to define notes, chords, sequences, lines, voices, scores, etc.
These objects can be combined with soundfiles and samples, rendered as notation
and synthesized in realtime.

It provides functionality for composition, music notation, sound analysis
and synthesis, feature extraction, transcription and machine learning


Documentation
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https://maelzel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html


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Installation
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::

    pip install maelzel


Dependencies
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- python >= 3.9
- csound (>= 6.18)
- lilypond


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Demos
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https://maelzel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Introduction.html#demo-notebooks

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Or check the example notebooks:

https://github.com/gesellkammer/maelzel/tree/master/docs/notebooks
