JMSL Tutorial: JScore
Adding measures to a score

JScore allows the user to enter and edit notes by hand, but its real strength lies in its programmability, which breaks down into two areas:
1) Adding algorithmically generated notes to a score
2) Transforming selected notes in a score

This tutorial demonstrates:
►How to create a new score.
►How to add it to a frame for display and editing.
►How to use JMSL's api for adding measures with user defined time signatures.


A new Score is created like so:

	// 2 staves, width, height
	Score score = new Score(2, 800, 400);

A score can be added to a ScoreFrame for display and editing. ScoreFrame has a powerful system of menus for score editing. Adding a score to a ScoreFrame is done like this:

	ScoreFrame scoreFrame = new ScoreFrame();
	scoreFrame.addScore(score); 

A blank measure with an arbitrary time signature can be added to a score with the addMeasure() method. For example:

	score.addMeasure(11, 16);  
	score.addMeasure(3, 4); 
	// add a measure with random time signature
	score.addMeasure(JMSLRandom.choose(3, 7), (int)Math.pow(2, JMSLRandom.choose(2, 4)));

View the complete source here.

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  JMSL is based upon HMSL (C) Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom.