Monday, June 29th, 2009
LilyPond is a wonderful way to write simple code that generates beautiful sheet music. I use TextMate for nearly all my coding. It's a great editor for the web and I have it fully customized to write code for everything I do including CSS, HTML, XML, XSL, Ruby on Rails, ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Great post over at Scienceblogs.com by Dave Munger titled "Musicians have better memory -- not just for music, but words and pictures too"
As musicians, we are constantly training ourselves to memorize. We spend hours upon hours memorizing music, and using mnemonic cues such as melodies, song form, harmony, music notation, ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
I have been learning LilyPond for music engraving lately and I love it!
I have always been intrigued by the intersections between music and programming. LilyPond really appeals to the coder in me because you are basically writing code in a text editor, and out comes beautiful sheet music.
Here is ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I am a recent convert to Last.fm, but know that this has been a long time coming.
I have hit Last.fm many times since they launched. But I always found it, well, kind of useless in the past. I wasn't grabbing very useful recommendations, and the usability of the software client ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
As I work on my research for my final project, I came across this gem from "The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning" by Parncutt & McPherson. If you are a practicing musician or a teacher trying to motivate your students to practice, these ...
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