IBar

IBar Interface

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.

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Defintion

public interface IBar
{
    // properties 
    IDuration TimeSignature { get; }
    IList<IChord> Chords { get; }
    IList<INote> Notes { get; set; }
    
    // methods 
    IList<IChord> GetOverlappingChordsForNote(int noteIndex);
    IList<INote> GetOverlappingNotesForChord(IChord chord, out IList<int> chordNotesIndices);
    IList<INote> GetOverlappingNotesForChord(int chordIndex, out IList<int> chordNotesIndices);
}

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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.