FORTISSIMO A programming language for writing programmatic music simply.

Project Proposal

Design Document

Presentation Slides

Poster Slides(ppt format)

Poster Slides(odf format)

Demo Screencast

Bonus Song (Tetris)

• record -- starts recording to ff-out.wav
• stop recording -- stops recording
• record -- starts recording a phrase
• help -- print this help message
• exit/quit -- quit the Fortissimo REPL

#!

| <Phrase Name>
<Statements>
||

• Add a list of notes -- notes
• Set the current scale -- key of
• Set the current tempo -- tempo of
• Set the current meter -- meter of /
• Set the current instrument playing -- playing (with )
• Play a phrase -- play
• Play a phrase and set the phrases attributes -- play with
  • Parameters
    • key
    • meter
    • octave
    • instrument
    • tempo
• Declare an instrument -- is

•  Corresponds to number in scale
  

•  Form of <Scale Number>(Optional Duration)
  

•  e.g. 4q
  

•  The absolute name of a note
  

•  Form of <Letter><Octave>(Optional Duration)
  

•  e.g. c4w
  

•  Plays a group of notes concurrently
  

•  Form of (<List of Notes>)
  

•  e.g. (c4q e4q g4q)
  

• w -- whole
  

• h -- half
  

• q -- quarter
  

• e -- eighth
  

• s -- sixteenth
  

• t -- thirty-second
  

•  Piano
  

•  Guitar
  

•  SawWave
  

•  Synth
  

•  Overpad
  

•  Bass
  

•  Ping
  

•  major
  

•  minor
  

•  melodicminor
  

•  harmonicminor
  

•  pentatonicmajor
  

•  bluesmajor
  

•  pentatonicminor
  

•  bluesminor
  

•  augmented
  

•  diminished
  

•  chromatic
  

•  wholehalf
  

•  halfwhole
  

•  wholetone
  

•  augmentedfifth
  

•  japanese
  

•  oriental
  

•  ionian
  

•  dorian
  

•  phrygian
  

•  lydian
  

•  mixolydian
  

•  aeolian
  

•  locrian