List rotation

[David Vaughan]

Here's a quick way to transpose, keeping all the sharps and flats
correct.
You could dress it up a bit by writing a Tune subclass of list with a
transpose method, particularly if there are other things you want to
do with tunes :)

David



# Define a long list of notes, each a fifth higher than its predecessor:
fifths = []
for suffix in ['bb','b','','#','##']:
    for note in ['F','C','G','D','A','E','B']:
	fifths.append(note+suffix)
fifths.append('F###')  # So len(fifths)==36 and we can wrap round
correctly
print 'fifths ==',fifths
print

# Translate between note names and indices in this list of fifths:
def m_ord(note_name):
    return fifths.index(note_name)
def m_str(note_index):
    """Note: index can be any value, and wraps round appropriately."""
    return fifths[note_index % len(fifths)]

# Do the main work:
def offset(sourcekey, destkey):
    """Returns offset in fifths which represents key-change."""
    return m_ord(destkey) - m_ord(sourcekey)
def transpose(tune, offset):
    """Transposes a tune (=list of notes) by given key-change offset."""
    return [m_str(m_ord(note)+offset) for note in tune]

# And show it off:
tune = ['C','E','B','F']
print 'Tune is',tune
for key in ['G', 'F', 'Dbb']:
    t = offset('C', key)
    print 'Transposition of tune from C to',key,'is',transpose(tune,t)



David Vaughan
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