Music for Geeks and Nerds

Are you interested in learning more about music but have found mostmaterial condescending or to present things magically instead oflogically? The good news is that much of music can be understood withprogramming and math, two things you're already good at! In this bookyou'll learn some elements of music from a programmer's perspective.You'll learn about the primitives of music such as notes and duration,the means of combining those primitives into motives and chords,operations such as transposition, retrograde, and inversion, and themeans of abstraction (phrases and form) using Python and some basicmath. Every concept in this book is explained in English with acorresponding implementation in Python, using the Pyknon musiclibrary.