How to master pitch manipulation using the music21 toolkit
In this lecture from MIT's Computational Music Theory and Analysis course, instructor Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert demonstrates how to access and utilize the fundamental Pitch object within the music21 Python library.
The video serves as a practical guide for unlocking the first module of music2rit: pitch. It provides a technical walkthrough of the various functions available within the Pitch object, which are essential for computational music analysis.
While the tutorial covers most capabilities of the object, it specifically excludes functions that include 'transpose' in their name, focusing instead on the foundational properties of pitch representation.
Source: Video 6a: Music Representation (III): Unlocking Pitch in music21
