Arabic Real Book
A collection of Arabic tunes formatted ร la Real Book. The output is published on MuseScore.
Each tune consists of several files:
tune.mscz
- the original tune sheet (MuseScore file)tune.musicxml
- the generated standard tune sheet (MusicXML file)tune.pdf
- the generated tune sheet PDF filetune.mma
- the accompaniment script (MMA - MIDI Music Accompaniment file)tune.mid
- the MIDI file generated by MMA with the above as input
- Install MuseScore and set
$MUSESCORE
to the MuseScore executable (default:musescore
) - Download MMA and set
$MMA_HOME
to its root folder (default:../mma
) - Ensure
pdftk
is accessible on the$PATH
- Run
npm run grooves
to update the MMA grooves database with the contents of thegrooves/
folder
npm run build:midi
to generate MIDI files from MMA files; append<tune>
to process a single tunenpm run build:musicxml
to generate MusicXML files from MuseScore files; append<tune>
to process a single tunenpm run build:pdf
to generate PDF files from MuseScore files; append<tune>
to process a single tunenpm run build
to run MusicXML and PDF build steps; append<tune>
to process a single tunenpm run build:arealb
to generatearealb.pdf
from MuseScore files
- Ensure
timidity
is accessible on the$PATH
- Ensure
aplaymidi
is accessible on the$PATH
- Run
timidity -iAD
- Copy
mmarc.example
tommarc
to set the correct MIDI player parameters - Run
npm run play <tune>
to preview a given tune