I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it.The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y).I used codex to build a music score rendering backend based on MuseScore with custom note heads that display the pitch class of each note.I've found it pretty helpful for learning how to play my own instrument, so wanted to share in case anyone else was interested.
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A new isomorphic music keyboard uses base-12 notation for 12-TET, with custom sheet music built using MuseScore.
- The keyboard uses numbers 0-9, X, Y to represent notes in 12-TET.
- Custom note heads display pitch classes for each note.
- The system was built with a MuseScore backend for sheet music rendering.
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