Notes for Class No. 22

Addditional Features of Pencil Code and ABC Notation (continued) and Introduction to the Final Course Project: Assignment No. 8

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

A video of this class is (or will be) posted at: http://echo360.uml.edu/heines2016/comp-mued2120.html

Handouts and Materials

Openings / Announcements / Reminders

Two things to be working on

Assignment No. 7 — due this Thursday, April 14th
- as requested, I have added a template for 6 parts for students encoding 4 vocal parts + piano accompaniment
Assignment No. 8 project registration — also due this Thursday, April 14th
- pick one or two people to be your partner(s) — no more than three people in a group
- decide what you’re going to do — see the assignment write-up for choices
- complete the form at:
  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FfuhYEvzdAoEW6rgNXO57vbNp_6HnlOqWFfMwA8unX8/viewform
  - no responses yet as of Sunday, April 10th, at noon

People who have MaKey MaKey boards that need to be returned before we will release final grades

Mohd Anwar Tak Lo

Greg Caldwell John McManus

Alex Casperson Yusuf Mulyo

Andrew Cornish Max Nelson

Kyle Elardo Eddie Pozo

Hannah Ewing Rodrigo Souza

Nsoah Foster Brad Swenson

Matt Hart Dylan Wetherald

Christian Hernandez Zack Wong

Student Affairs Scholarships Available

The Division of Student Affairs is pleased to announce applications are available for the following scholarships/awards to be presented for the 2016-2107 academic year.

The Education Under a Tree Scholarship recognizes international undergraduate and graduate students for their service to the student community and acknowledges academic excellence in addition to service.

The Don Gagnon Scholarship recognizes students who have contributed positively to the University Community through their community service and student involvement.

The Jacqueline and Edward Moloney Award recognizes women student leaders for their service to the University Community and acknowledges academic success in addition to service.

The Briguglio and Dunbar Family Endowed Scholarship recognizes those student leaders in the UMass Lowell Community who work each day to make a difference in the life of our students.

The Matt Drouin Scholarship recognizes efforts by students who have engaged in activities centering on themes of social justice and civic engagement.

Students interested in applying for the scholarships can go to www.uml.edu/SAScholarships for the application form and further details concerning criteria and required materials.

Students may apply for more than one award and may submit the same letters of recommendation for the different awards, as required.
All applications are due by April 13, 2016.
It is expected that the selected students will attend the Student Leadership Banquet on Thursday, April 2, from 6-9 PM to receive their awards.
For questions, contact Mary Connelly, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Mary_Connelly@uml.edu.

Class Notes

Revised Recommended Approach to Assignment No. 7

Please see revised notes for Class No. 21 on Thursday, April 7th

Major revisions to those notes:

As we discussed, we left out one step:
- remember that your first step in EasyABC has to be to click the New tune link in the ABC assist window
- you can then begin to enter your notes in ABC notation at the end of the code that the New tune link causes to be inserted
We have discovered that parentheses are not need to call the sing function if you leave a space after the sing function name. Thus, the following syntax is now recommended:

sing n, "your copied ABC code"
- sing must be typed in lowercase
- replace n with the number of the keyboard that you want the music to play on
- n must be followed by a comma
- enclose your copied ABC code in double quotes
We changed the ABC Notation Encoding chart to reflect the fact that EasyABC requires rests to be coded with a lowercase z
- the uppercase Z works in Pencil Code, but not EasyABC
- this is typical of different implementations of a standard
  - remember that ABC Notation is a standard, not a program

note that the “standard” note value can be changed with the L: directive

thus, if L:1/4 is specified, a G or G1 indeed represents a quarter note

but if L:1/8 is specified, a G or G1 represents an eighth note

Be sure to save your Pencil Code program with a new name, *not* “MultiTemplateN” as it is in Jesse’s account

Example

figure source: http://www.letsplaykidsmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/row-row-row-your-boat.jpg

Pencil Code implementation - Version 1 - using Pencil Code’s play function

Pencil Code implementation - Version 2 - using the sing function

The ABC Notation as generated by EasyABC

X:1 T:Row, Row, Row Your Boat T:Traditional C:Coded by Jesse Heines M:6/8 L:1/4 K:C Q: 1/4=180 [V:1] C3/2 C3/2 | C D/ E3/2 | E D/2 E F/2 | G3 | w:Row, row, row your boat gent-ly down the stream. C'/2C'/2C'/2G/2G/2G/2 | E/2E/2E/2C/2C/2C/2 | w:Mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, G F/2 E D/2 | C3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 |] w:Life is but a dream. [V:2] z3 | z3 | C3/2 C3/2 | C D/ E3/2 | E D/2 E F/2 | G3 | w:Row, row, row your boat gent-ly down the stream. C'/2C'/2C'/2G/2G/2G/2 | E/2E/2E/2C/2C/2C/2 | w:Mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, G F/2 E D/2 | C3 | z3 | z3 |] w:Life is but a dream. [V:3] z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | C3/2 C3/2 | C D/ E3/2 | E D/2 E F/2 | G3 | w:Row, row, row your boat gent-ly down the stream. C'/2C'/2C'/2G/2G/2G/2 | E/2E/2E/2C/2C/2C/2 | w:Mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, mer-ri-ly, G F/2 E D/2 | C3 |] w:Life is but a dream.

The ABC Notation as used in Pencil Code *without* the sing function

if true p1.play "C3/2 C3/2 | C D/2 E3/2" p1.play "E D/2 E F/2 | G3" p1.play "C'/2 C'/2 C'/2 G/2 G/2 G/2" p1.play "E/2 E/2 E/2 C/2 C/2 C/2" p1.play "G F/2 E D/2 | C3" if true p2.play "z6" p2.play "C3/2 C3/2 | C D/2 E3/2" p2.play "E D/2 E F/2 | G3" p2.play "C'/2 C'/2 C'/2 G/2 G/2 G/2" p2.play "E/2 E/2 E/2 C/2 C/2 C/2" p2.play "G F/2 E D/2 | C3" if true p3.play "z12" p3.play "C3/2 C3/2 | C D/2 E3/2" p3.play "E D/2 E F/2 | G3" p3.play "C'/2 C'/2 C'/2 G/2 G/2 G/2" p3.play "E/2 E/2 E/2 C/2 C/2 C/2" p3.play "G F/2 E D/2 | C3"

The ABC Notation as used in Pencil Code *with* the sing function

sing 1, "C3/2 C3/2 | C D/2 E3/2 | E D/2 E F/2 | G3 |" sing 1, "C'/2C'/2C'/2G/2G/2G/2 | E/2E/2E/2C/2C/2C/2 |" sing 1, "G F/2 E D/2 | C3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 |]" sing 2, "z3 | z3 | C3/2 C3/2 | C D/2 E3/2 | E D/2 E F/2 | G3 |" sing 2, "C'/2C'/2C'/2G/2G/2G/2 | E/2E/2E/2C/2C/2C/2 |" sing 2, "G F/2 E D/2 | C3 | z3 | z3 |]" sing 3, "z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | C3/2 C3/2 | C D/2 E3/2 | E D/2 E F/2 | G3 |" sing 3, "C'/2C'/2C'/2G/2G/2G/2 | E/2E/2E/2C/2C/2C/2 |" sing 3, "G F/2 E D/2 | C3 |]"

UMass Lowell Dept. of Computer Science

COMP 2120 / MUED 2120 — Sound Thinking

Spring 2016 Semester, Section 201

Prof. Jesse M. Heines and Prof. Gena Greher