Adkins About Project 2
For my second Python music project, I coded “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago. I like Chicago’s music because it has a lot of complex instrumentation, usually with more of a distinct sound than other bands of the times by blending genres. I feel like most of their music would be interesting to digitize, but I was partial to this song for several reasons. I have fond memories of playing this in marching band, which is where I was first introduced to it. It was a fun piece to play, because it had a saxophone part in the melody, something that seemed rare to me as a saxophone player. The lyrics to the song also resonate with me as an overworked college student—desperately seeking inspiration, trying hard to finish writing (or, in this class’s case a musical programming project) while time slips past in a way that seems unusual.
Davis About Project 2
I completed the song “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” for Project 2. This song was written by Bach. I had listened to this song very often as a young child and I wanted to see if I could implement it in this course. I am very pleased with the result and I hope that anyone who listens to the piece also enjoys it. The implementation of this song was not easy but allowed me to grow my musical knowledge and expand my musical vocabulary.
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Hedigus About Project 2
I chose to do the song "I Won't Give Up" by Jason Mraz. The song has a lovely sound without relying heavily on a repeated instrumental phrase, which I felt made it perfect for this project. I went ahead and did about half or more of the song. My musical composition has five parts - treble and bass Rhodes piano, Dulcimer, music box, and Taiko drum. The original sheet music for the piano is transcribed into my piece as the Rhodes piano parts. I found additional sheet music that had the vocals for the song, which is transcribed into my piece as the music box. The Dulcimer and Taiko drums are additional music to give the piece a cohesive feel. Hope you enjoy it!
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Holderbaum About Project 2
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Kaufman About Project 2
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Martin About Project 2
For my project two, I have coded in the song "All I Want for Christmas is you" by Mariah Carey and Afanasieff. This was not my first song choice but rather the song I chose after running into problems with my first choice. This song is containing seven different instruments making seven parts running from begging to end. The overall length is about 2 mins and 30 seconds long. In my piece, I have used many different dynamics to raise and lower the Instruments' volume. The last big thing I have done is using instruments that typically do not go together. The Instruments are 1. Pad_4_Choir, 2. piano, 3. Voice_oohs, 4. harp, 5. trumpet, 6. contrabass, AND 7 my percussion the snare. The song is easier to recognize at the begging, but it becomes challenging to identify the music as it starts playing.
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McGinnis About Project 2
My selection piece was Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons. It feels very timely as we near the changing of the seasons. The mood of this piece is light, exciting and hopeful. I felt that a piece that creates a feeling of new beginnings would be a fun focus point, being that there are so many new and exciting things to look forward to in my own life within the next few months. I knew that with this piece I would be able to dive into adding a lot of depth to this piece with the use of many different parts. Also, while transposing this piece, there were a lot of techniques that we have learned tricks for such as repetition, dynamics, parts with similar durations, and more. I knew I could utilize these things that we have been discussing in this course and create a very interesting version of this piece. In the end, I believe I have a unique and exciting performance of this classical composition.
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Miller About Project 2
Hi everyone, my name is Nick Miller, and this is my piece Falling Slowly for my Project 2. Within this piece, I explored 4 separate instruments as well as percussion. I transcribed the sheet music and then altered the notes with the Mod.invert() function to give it more of a bass punch. I had a fun time creating this piece and I look forward to making more music with computers!
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Moore About Project 2
This project is about a song that we found interesting or had a connection to. So, I choose to recreate God Bless America by Lee Greenwood. The reason behind choosing this song was because of the soldier meanings behind it and being part of a genre that I listen to daily. While coding this I broke it down into smaller parts that would be considered modular. What this means is each part is contained in its own function. While in the function the phrase is created and calls upon another function to create and append the phrase. After the phrase is constructed it is added to the score.
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Newsom About Project 2
I chose to program the song, “That Girl” by Stevie Wonder, for my Project 2. It was a long process of breaking this song down of its many components and programming it to sound as close to the original piece as possible. I am very happy with how everything turned out despite the late change to this song that I had to make. The song consisted of 2 violin parts for the melody along with a viola part to compliment. The background bassline consisted of 2 electric piano parts and a percussion part to carry the beat. Overall, the piece was not too complicated as I completed each part, and the layers came together. I enjoyed the results and the journey that I took to get those results and I am excited to continue coding more musical pieces!!
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Spencer About Project 2
In the video submitted, I will be presenting my Project 2. The music sheet I decided to go with was called Soviet Connection (GTA IV Theme Song) By Michael Hunter. I transcribed 16 out of the original 23 instruments. However, due to poor quality, I removed 2 of the drums from the final piece. I also transcribed 15 out of the original 22 pages. Overall, the piece ended up turning out really well. While I ran into a few hiccups when transcribing and programming the piece, everything ended up working out in the end. In the beginning of the piece, the tempo starts out at 105, then it decreases to 100. Later on, it then increases to 146. During the piece, many of the instruments consistently do not play on some pages. Therefore, I had to create many phrases to accommodate for this. Furthermore, I attempted to keep my code organized as much as possible and to not write any duplicate lines of code for all measures. In my video, I will discuss some factors I had trouble with, such as keeping my code organized and getting the start times perfect for each instrument.
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