Bar

Bar Class

Namespace: CW.Soloist.CompositionService.MusicTheory
Assembly: CW.Soloist.CompositionService.dll

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Summary

Represents a single musical bar in a musical piece.

Each bar contains the following properties:

• time signature which represents the number of beats in the bar and the duration of each beat.
• List of chords which represent the harmony in the current bar.
• List of notes which represent the melody notes in the current bar.

Implements IBar.

Defintion

internal class Bar : IBar
{
    // IBar interface properties 
    IDuration TimeSignature { get; }
    IList<IChord> Chords { get; }
    IList<INote> Notes { get; set; }

    // IBar interface methods 
    IList<IChord> GetOverlappingChordsForNote(int noteIndex) { ... }
    IList<INote> GetOverlappingNotesForChord(IChord chord, out IList<int> chordNotesIndices) { ... }
    IList<INote> GetOverlappingNotesForChord(int chordIndex, out IList<int> chordNotesIndices) { ... }

    // Constructors 
    public Bar() { ... } 
    public Bar(IBar bar) { ... } 
    public Bar(IDuration timeSignature) { ... } 
    public Bar(IDuration timeSignature, IList<IChord> chords, IList<INote> notes) { ... } 
    
    // ToString method  
    public override string ToString() { ... } 
}

Properties

Property Name	Type	Description
TimeSignature	IDuration	Contains the bar's duration, for example: 4/4 for standard western music and 3/4 for a valse.
Chords	IList<IChord>	The chords which represent the harmony in the bar.
Notes	IList<INote>	The notes which represent the melody in the bar.

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Methods

Method Name	Return Type	Description
GetOverlappingChordsForNote	IList<IChord>	Returns the chords that are played in parallel to given note.
GetOverlappingNotesForChord	IList<INote>	Returns the notes that are played in parallel to given chord.
ToString	string	Returns a string representation the given bar.