With December 1st coming up tomorrow, here is Praetorius’ Puer natus in Bethlehem in Christian Mondrup’s transcriptions for the recorder. He’s used ABC Plus for the typesetting for those who are interested.

With Illiad’s Userfriendly cartoon going on about treating coffee addiction (see first strip here), my cravings for coffee skyrocket

I finished my first external Pure Data object, a note determining object. This object takes in the number of Hz a note is measured to be and outputs what note it is (the low A on a piano being 1, going up to 88), determining how many cent off it is and how many Hz extra there is (i.e, 415Hz = A flat (tone 47), one cent (minus 0.174Hz) low. Fourth output is a text with the note name, in this case Ab. This object uses equal temperament and was just an excercise for me to see if it can be done.

Here’s a screen shot:

The code is copyrighted Niklas Saers, 2004. I place the code under the two clause BSD license meaning I merely ask any redistribution, whether in source or binary, to reproduce this copyright.

Christian Mondrup has added an italian madrigal Tu che del mio dolore by Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (c.1558-1593) for 5 recorders to the recorder archive. Keep up the good work, Christian!

Thought you’d might want to see just how simple it is: my pyext example for Pure Data. I’m planning to make an object that takes in a floating point number of frequency height and determines what note it is and the amount of error according to different scale temperaments, i.e. Valotti, Werkmeister 3, Kirnberger, Meantone and Equal tempering.