Programming for Music
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course provides an overview of the application of common algorithms and data structures to typical music and audio scenarios. The course illustrates how to encode symbolic music data, to manage binary and textual formats and to design musical graphical interfaces.
Expected learning outcomes
The student must be able to design and implement a complete musical application, that processes symbolic data and/or audio signals.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Concepts of web programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Encoding of symbolic music information
Algorithms for the creation, analysis, and manipulation of symbolic information
Web programming for music: Web MIDI API
Web programming for sound: Web Audio API, Tone.js, Web Speech API
Encoding of symbolic music information
Algorithms for the creation, analysis, and manipulation of symbolic information
Web programming for music: Web MIDI API
Web programming for sound: Web Audio API, Tone.js, Web Speech API
Prerequisites for admission
Basic concepts of music and sound: notions of frequency/pitch of sounds, duration of notes/rhythmic values, fundamental skills in music notation.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and exercises in a computer lab.
Teaching Resources
Slides of the course authored by the teacher.
Specifications and technical documentation available on the web.
Specifications and technical documentation available on the web.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral discussion of a project agreed upon with the teacher.
The evaluation, expressed on a scale of thirty, takes into account the quality of the delivered project and the ability to address the requests expressed during the oral presentation.
The evaluation, expressed on a scale of thirty, takes into account the quality of the delivered project and the ability to address the requests expressed during the oral presentation.
Professor(s)
Reception:
Tuesday, 10.30 - 12.30 or by appointment
Laboratory of Music Informatics (LIM), Department of Computer Science, 4th floor