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gregchapman-dev / converter21

A music21-based music notation file format converter CLI app, and some new sub converter plug-ins
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Add figured bass numbers to Humdrum #11

Open WolfgangDrescher opened 5 months ago

WolfgangDrescher commented 5 months ago

Would it be possible to add figured bass numbers when converting to Humdrum?

I'm not sure if figured bass is already properly implemented in music21. It seems that it's currently not documented in the user's guide and I found some comments about missing support in the developer reference: https://web.mit.edu/music21/doc/developerReference/musicxmlTest.html#figured-bass

gregchapman-dev commented 5 months ago

It would be possible (although it might require work in music21 as well; I've done that before for various features). It will not happen for a bit; there are a few missing converter21 features that are higher on my priority list (pedal marks, fingering, rehearsal marks, and D.S./D.C./etc come to mind).

Notes for when this is done:

  1. Add figured bass to the Humdrum/MEI importers and to the Humdrum/MEI exporters.
  2. This would probably be a good moment to add chord symbols as well.