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Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system. Users declaratively state a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is style-independent and is well-suited for highly complex theories (e.g. a fully-fledged theory of harmony). Results can be output into various formats including MIDI, Lilypond, and Csound. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release brings many small-scale improvements and extensions to Strasheela. Most importantly, the implementation of Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony as CSP has been documented (HTML with sound examples), Strasheela now supports adaptive just intonation, the music representation has been extended by several convenient constructors, and a number of pattern constraints have been added. Also, some bugs have been fixed.



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