Although the music world is full of software that can transcribe anything from solo singers to full orchestras into sheet music, one programmer-slash-musician has created a new open-source tool named Alda that uses a command line interface to write music. For example, the opening phrase of the nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep would be rendered as g4 g d4 d e8 e e e d4 r4 in Alda. To most people with a passing knowledge of music this looks more complicated than ordinary notation, but Alda's creator Dave Yarwood says the intent is to remove the complications of graphical user interfaces.
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