Task 1: Transcribe each of the following small pieces of music
into an abc file.
Name your files as piece1.abc
and piece2.abc, respectively, and commit them
under the directory sample_abc in your team's SVN repository.
6.005 Elements of Software Construction
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In this lab, you will familiarize yourself with the abc notation and the Java MIDI API as a preparation for Project 2. You will also get a chance to practice using the Visitor pattern.
Before coming to lab, please do the following:
svn+ssh://athena.dialup.mit.edu/mit/6.005/svn/groups/abcPlayer/groupKwhere K is your assigned group number.
In the first section of the lab, you will learn about the Java MIDI Sequencer, which allows you to schedule a series of notes to be played at certain time intervals.
Look at the package sound under src, and study the provided class, SequencePlayer. For this project, you will not need to modify this class, but you should become comfortable using its constructor and the two methods, addNote and play.
addNote(int note, int startTick, int numTicks): This method schedules a note to be played at startTick for the duration of numTicks. Here, a "tick" is similar to a time step. At the beginning of a musical piece, the global tick is initialized to 0, and as the music progresses through the notes, the global tick is incremented by some number.
The first parameter note is a frequency value that corresponds to the pitch of a note. The provided class Pitch contains a number of useful methods for working with pitches. The method toMidiFrequency returns the frequency value of the particular note, and transpose can be used to transpose the note some number of semitones up or down.
SequencePlayer(int beatsPerMinute, int ticksPerQuarterNote): The constructor for SequencePlayer takes two parameters:
The first, beatsPerMinute, is the tempo of a musical piece, expressed in the number of beats per minute (BPM), where each beat is equal to the duration of one quarter note. The BPM to be used for a particular piece depends on the value of the optional tempo field ('Q') in the input abc file. When this field is absent, the default tempo is 100 BPM, where each beat is equal in duration to the default note length (indicated by the field 'L').
The second parameter, ticksPerQuarterNote, corresponds to the number of ticks per quarter note. Note that ticks used by the sequencer are based on discrete time. Think about how large this number needs to be in order to play notes of different durations in an abc piece. For example, if ticksPerQuarterNote had a value of 2, then an eighth note would be played for the duration of one tick, but you would not be able to schedule a sixteenth note for the correct duration.
play() After all of the notes have been scheduled, you can invoke play to tell the sequencer to begin playing the music.
Run the main method in SequencePlayer, which shows an example of using a sequencer to play up and down a C major scale. In this example, all of the notes in the scale have been hard-coded. In your abc player, you will be walking over your data structures that represent a musical piece and automatically schedule the notes at appropriate ticks.
We will come back to the sequencer in the next part of the lab.
In this part of the lab, you will familiarize yourself with various language constructs by writing small, toy abc files and playing them using the Java MIDI sequencer.
This is a group exercise. Find your team members and work through this section together.
Task 1: Transcribe each of the following small pieces of music
into an abc file.
Name your files as piece1.abc
and piece2.abc, respectively, and commit them
under the directory sample_abc in your team's SVN repository.
You may find the abc subset description useful.
Piece No.1: A simple, 4/4 meter piece with triplets. As a starter, the header and the first two bars are already provided. You should complete the rest of the piece by transcribing the last two bars.
X: 1 T:Piece No.1 M:C L:1/4 Q: 140 K:C C C C3/4 D/4 E | E3/4 D/4 E3/4 F/4 G2 |
Piece No.2: A more complex piece, with chords, accidentals, and rests. Set its tempo to 200, with the default note length of 1/4.
Task 2: Write JUnit tests that play these pieces using
the sequencer, similar to the main method in
the SequencePlayer class. Store them in a separate class
called SequencePlayerTest.
Checkpoint. Find
a TA or another member of the course staff, and demonstrate your abc file
creations by playing the two pieces on your computer.
As discussed during the previous lecture, the Visitor pattern is a way to separate operations from data structures, such that new operations can be added without having to modify the structures. You may find the Visitor pattern useful for this project as you traverse over the musical structures and perform a variety of operations. In this part of the lab, you will practice using the Visitor pattern by applying it to simple, arithmetic expressions.
This is an individual exercise.
First, check out the project named traversal_java from your personal SVN repository.
Look at the abstract base class, Expr and its subclasses, Const, Plus, Minus, Mult, and Div, as well as the Visitor interface, ExprVisitor. The class Const is a wrapper class for the primitive Java type double.
Task 3: Write an EvaluateVisitor that walks over an
expression and calculates its value in double. You may also want to modify
the Expr classes. Create three JUnit
test cases for the visitor and store them in ExprVisitorTest.java.
Task 4: Define an enumerated type called Sign that can
take one of the three values, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, and
UNKNOWN. Write a SignVisitor that returns the
sign of an expression without actually evaluating the
expression. Note that your visitor should return POSITIVE
or NEGATIVE only if it can determine the sign of the
overall expression purely from the arithmetic operators and the signs of the
constants; otherwise, it should
return UNKNOWN.
You may also modify the Expr classes as necessary.
Write three JUnit test cases and store them
in ExprVisitorTest as well.
How would you have added the sign operation without using a visitor? What kind of changes would you have made to the Expr classes?
Checkpoint. Find
a TA or another member of the course staff, and demonstrate your visitors.
This is the end of the lab. Be sure to commit all your code to your individual (traversal_java) AND group (abcPlayer) SVN repositories. Since both you and your team members are sharing the same repository, be careful to check for conflicts when you commit, and don't break the build for your partners.
