PlayTune

This function plays musical tunes. Write your own musical tune and call the function to play it.

Description

This function plays musical tunes. Write your own musical tune and call the function to play it.

Notation:
[CDEFGAB] keys, 5 full octaves
[12345678] key/rest duration, with the default [1] semiquaver, [2] quaver, [4] crochet and [8] minim
[#] sharp / [b] flat / [.] rest / [^] raise octave / [_] lower octave

The musical scores for Canon in D (Pachelbel), Prelude No 1 (Bach), The Globe Trotter and Fantasie Impromptu (Chopin) are also attached.

Essential files: playtune.m
Accompanying files: canon_in_d.m, prelude_no_1.m, the_globe_trotter.m, fantasie_impromptu.m

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.3.1 (R11.1)

[John D'Errico]

Superb.

I do wish the author had included a bit more help with playtune. For example, the notation is described in the website description, but not in the help for playtune. (Please fix this!) I've rated it a 5 anyway.

[Alan Tan]

Hi John, I've taken your advice and added some examples and included the notation (above) in the help of playtune.

[S Murphy]

 

[Ruoting Yang]

 

[Ameya Deoras]

 

[Chihiro]