Decitala Documentation

The decitala package aims to make rhythmic search and analysis of encoded musical corpora easier. This toolkit can be used to both detect rhythmic fragments in a work and suggest possible alignments. decitala is being developed to make the analysis of Olivier Messiaen’s music easier, particularly with respect to his use of ethnological rhythmic fragments. If you find the tools/corpora to be useful or discover a bug, feel free to file an issue here or drop me a note (luke.poeppel@gmail.com). I’d love to hear about how you used them and/or take suggestions.

Source Code: https://github.com/Luke-Poeppel/decitala.

Written by: Luke Poeppel (lukepoeppel.com)

Installation

Run the following:

$ cd # Navigate to home directory
$ git clone https://github.com/Luke-Poeppel/decitala.git
$ cd decitala
$ pip3 install -e .
$ pre-commit install # Only needed if you'd like to contribute code.
$ decitala --version # Check for proper installation.

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