Share Paper: Creating Music through Coding

  1. Glen Bull, University of Virginia, United States
  2. Jo Watts, University of Virginia, United States
  3. Joe Garofalo, University of Virginia, United States

Abstract: Creation of music offers an engaging way to introduce coding to novices. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to explore creation of music in different styles. The music activities feature different musicians, including Robert Johnson, the blues guitarist and singer whose landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 influenced musicians and groups as diverse as Eric Clapton, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. The twelve-bar blues is a tradition that can be traced back to the nineteenth century. This form of the blues enables a musician to play hundreds of different songs with only three chords. In a similar ...