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schoenberg: Tools for 12-Tone Musical Composition

Overview

The schoenberg package offers functions for creating and manipulating 12-tone (i.e., dodecaphonic) musical matrices using Arnold Schoenberg's (1923) serialism technique. This package can generate random 12-tone matrices and can generate matrices using a pre-determined sequence of notes.

Author

schoenberg was written by Jeffrey A. Dahlke.

Installation

The official CRAN release of schoenberg can be installed with the following code:

install.packages("schoenberg")

Development versions of schoenberg from GitHub reflect updates made to the package between official CRAN releases. Using the devtools package, the GitHub release can be installed with the following code:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jadahlke/schoenberg")

Citing schoenberg

To cite schoenberg, please refer to the package's citation information using the citation() function.

citation("schoenberg")

Reporting Issues

Please report any bugs/issues to schoenberg's GitHub issues page.

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Install

install.packages('schoenberg')

Monthly Downloads

163

Version

2.0.3

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Jeffrey Dahlke

Last Published

January 28th, 2024

Functions in schoenberg (2.0.3)

schoenberg

Generate a 12-tone matrix using Arnold Schoenberg's serialism technique.
print

Print methods for schoenberg
rekey

Re-express a "schoenberg" class object with a different lead tone or different notation of accidentals.