Music in MATLAB: A series of programming challenges for an introductory course

Sample .wav-files

Music Text Files

Mastodon Music Muncher (under development)

Jim Cary from “Liar, Liar”	Voice
Single Piano Note	Single Note
Electronic song	Melody
Twinkle Twinkle	Melody
Fourier Transform	Voice
Weird	Weird
Bird	Sound Recording
Circus	Song Recording
Handel	Song Recording

Jingle Bells

Star Wars Theme

Frere Jaque

These files contain three columns the first is the note name the second is the note amplitude and the third is the notes duration in seconds.

M3.zip

This GUI interface includes:
    a keyboard for generating notes,
    a player to play/graph some .wav files &
    a sound analyzer and distortorer.

Download the zip file and unpack it into your
Matlab work directory. To run simply type M3 at the command prompt.

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Music Challenge		Resources	Rubric	Some General Resources
1	Simple Song	Introduction to Music in MATLAB Examples: tone1.m song1a.m	R1	Musical Harmonies & Musical Analysis and Synthesis in Matlab, Mark Peterson (University of Colorado) Musical Harmonies (.pdf) Musical Analysis and Synthesis in Matlab (.pdf) Web page of Resources
2	With a pseudo square wave	makesquare2.m	R2
3	Eight-note player		R3
4	Subfunction: note2freq			Physics of Music Notes Bryan Suits (Michigan Tech) Main Page Make your Own Wind Chime
5	Music Player	see previous challenges (particularly 3) see example music text files below	R5
6	Music Distortoer	wav files	R6
7	Final Challenge	See: General Resources in Right Column chordplay.m below Mastodon Music Muncher below (or when in ET 311 or 315 type M3 in MATLAB).	See handout	Frequency Chart for the Equal Tempered Scale (adapted from B. Suits)
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	chordplay.m: A MATLAB script that illustrates the several music issues particular related to programming chords Mastodon Music Muncher: A GUI program for illustrating sound generation, analysis, and processing (under development)