Wednesday, April 20, 2016

[wkqkumle] De Bruijn style music

Create a song which has within it all (say) 4 note songs.  A De Bruijn sequence doesn't quite work because scale transpositions can be considered equivalent.  Cyclic is OK: the song repeats.

Simplifications / constraints: Limit to two octaves of a small scale, e.g., pentatonic.  We don't care about covering 4 note songs with a range greater than an octave, or jumps larger than a fifth, or tritone jumps.  Limit rhythm in some way, the most obvious being only quarter notes, though that might be too boring.

Inspired by change ringing .

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