Chorale Composer 0.2

A new version of Chorale Composer is available at:

http://camil.music.uiuc.edu/Software/cc

New features in the (0.2) release:

  • Realtime playback of Bach chorales and transport tool with metronome widget to adjust tempo as it plays and a position slider to move around in the chorale during playback. Take the repeat or not!
  • Positioning and Zoom. look ma, no scroll bars: use click-drag to move the music manuscript around inside its viewport. Use double-click-drag to zoom in and out. Zoom all the way out to see how really clean the drawing is, no clipping or overhangs or jags when stems meet noteheads.
  • New Show Chorale Source displays the Bach chorale data the display is based on. Chorale Composer does all layout, notation and music theory analysis on the fly, its incredibly fast.

Next relelase: note editing, analysis (chord classifcation, key/transpositon functions

Andrew Burnson, Rick Taube
Assoc. Professor, Composition
Chair, Composition-Theory Division
School of Music, University of Illinois
1114 W. Nevada, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Net: taube@uiuc.edu
Fax: 1 217 244 7767
Vox: 1 217 244 2684