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Mozart golf - mini “Rondo”

Output "Mozart - Alla Turca" to stdout (see the sample for "reference implementation") Try to find how to pack both synthesizer and the music into minimal size. Requirements: Format suitable for ...
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Create a GUI Piano

Challenge Create a GUI Keyboard with as few characters as possible. Example Because this was an assignment in one of my courses, I can't show the source code. However, here is a screen shot of my ...
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Markov Chain Beatbox Generator

Just an idea I had the other day: Making beats following a Markov Chain of predefined sounds. I remember someone did a beatbox with Google Translate and the German language (follow the link and press ...
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Scale from key and mode

Most of you probably know the C major scale: C D E F G A B C The major scale is characterised by the intervals between adjacent notes, which measured in semitones are: 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 From these ...
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The Major-Minor Dichotomy

Given a list of chords label them as either 'Major' or ' Minor'. Input Input will be a list of chords, one per line, made up of 3 notes separated by a space. Each note will consist of the note name ...
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Write a program to play the popular English nursery rhyme. (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Helix84 at the English ...
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It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A

"Y.M.C.A." is a popular disco song by the Village People that has a well-known dance. Write the shortest program to output the capital letters "Y", "M", "C", and "A" synchronized to the song's chorus. ...
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Print the sizes of intervals inside of a piece of music

Background In Western music, every single music note has an assigned name. Within each octave, there are twelve unique notes in the following order: "C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A A#/Bb B C", ...
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Write the prettiest bytebeat composition

Bytebeat is a style of music one can compose by writing a simple C program that's output is piped to aplay or /dev/dsp. ...
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PCM Wave time stretch

Write the smallest program performs a time stretch operation on a PCM Wave (.wav) file. Rules: Parameter input will by via whatever standard argument mechanism your language comes with, e.g. argv ...
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Generating guitar tabs?

Write the shortest program that generates guitar tabs for the chords given as input. So that the guitarists among you don't have an advantage, and to make it deterministic (and probably easier to ...
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Create a function for transposing musical chords

Your mission is to create a function for transposing music chords. Copied from SO with permission of the original asker, I just really wanted to see what you guys could do with this one: Since I ...