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Sebastian will be a symbolic music analysis and composition library written in Python.
I partly think of it as being a "Mathematica for music". By symbolic, I mean that it will focus more on the sorts of abstractions made by music notation and theories of harmony and counterpoint than lower level
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numerical operations that one might use in, say, music synthesis.
I hope it to be very practical as an analysis tool for existing compositions (especially from the common practice period) and also a tool for computer-assisted composition. It will also be a bit of a test bed for ideas I've had for a while around applying linguistics and abstract algebra to music. [Less]