Analysing vertical soundings in scores
The repository contains the datasets and software used to analyse vertical sounds in motets from Johann Hermann Schein and Heinrich Schütz.
The PleiadesMusicae.py is a python module for musical analysis based on the music21 toolkit, that generates datasets of a given corpus.
The idea of analysing vertical sounds was inspired by treatises of the early 17th century, where a classification of sounds (the syzygiae) is developed. The name of the module, PleiadesMusicae is derived from a treatise by Henrichs Baryphonus.
- python 3.7 or higher
- music21 toolkit
- matplotlib
- jupyter notebooks and MuseScore (recommended for displaying)