The code in this repository is the beginnings of a compiler for a MUSIC-V-like language. It is based on a tutorial example given in Max Mathew's 1969 book "The Technology of Computer Music" (MIT Press).

This code was developed to support a talk I gave at the 1st Web Audio Conference at IRCAM in Paris in January 2015.

This compiler barely does enough to generate the first score in the tutorial given by Mathews in his book, "The technology of computer music". But it is flexible enough to be extended to do more if I, or any of you reading this, have the time and inclination to do so. We wrote a parser for the language using peg.js and it should be straightforward to extend that to support the missing unit generators.

To compile the score and play it arrange for app/index.html to be served on your machine and visit index.html.

To run the unit tests, first install the dependencies

npm install

Then

npm test

To incorporate your changes into the application, they need turning into a bundle with browserify

npm run-script build