Overview
- Explains Python’s audio-visual capabilities for music and sound
- Concepts developed in tutorials for beginner programmers
- Full project code frameworks available for expert programmers
- Includes a historical and theoretical background for musically interested readers
- Ideal for self study with full cross platform support
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Snake in the Grass—Python and Its Environment
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Banging the Drum—Visualising Sound
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Heat in the Desert—Sculpting Sound
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The Harmonograph—Victorian Pendulum Toy
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Counterpoint à la Mode—Composing Music
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About this book
This book is an innovative introduction to Python and its audio-visual capabilities for beginning programmers; a resource for expert programmers and of interest to anyone involved in music. It is structured around four extensible, audio-visual projects on music and sound. The beginner will appreciate the 'need to know' basis of the presentation of Python for each project, and expert programmers will be able to go straight to the project code, run it and then extend it as they see fit. Musically interested readers will enjoy the historical and theoretical material at the beginning of each project, and it may even tempt them to try some coding - it is not too difficult!
The four projects the book focuses on are all self-contained, but can be extended to incorporate aspects of the others. Above all this book is suited for self-study, which should be playful (pun intended!).
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Iain Gray has over 40 years programming experience working in all the major paradigms, including functional/declarative languages (Common List and Prolog), procedural languages (Fortan, C and Pascal), 'combination' languages (Scheme and Python) and Object-oriented languages (Simula and Ada).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Snake Charming - The Musical Python
Authors: Iain Gray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60660-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60659-0Published: 05 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60660-6Published: 21 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 121
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Programming Techniques, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Popular Science in Humanities / Arts