music21 objects

elements

• Pitch

• Duration

• Note (Rest)

• Chord

• Clef

• TImeSignature

structures

• Voice

• Measure

  • complete measure: from measure number 1

  • incomplete measure

    • normal: from measure number 0

    • abnormal: from measure number 1

• Part

• Score

• Opus

• Stream

file types available to music21

• MIDI

• MusicXML

• Humdrum **kern (alternative page)

• LilyPond

• abc

references

• object names vs. module names

• introduction to streams

• classes and subclasses