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Music Knowledge
The gateway to midicn's music knowledge sites — theory, instruments, history, composers, genres, production and Chinese music, each with its own site and all cross-linked.
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Music KnowledgeThe gateway to midicn's music knowledge sites — theory, instruments, history, composers, genres, production and Chinese music, each with its own site and all cross-linked.AI MusicMaking finished music with AI — tool choice, prompt to deliverable, controllability, hand-off and licensing. Sound itself is explained on prod; theory on theo.Audio & Music ProductionThe craft of audio and music production — acoustics and listening, recording, mixing and mastering, sound design, game and film audio, plus DAWs, MIDI, arrangement and delivery.Music HistoryMusic history, period by period — from early music to the present, with the key milestones, representative works and listening cues of each era.InstrumentsAn illustrated atlas of instruments — Western, Chinese, electronic and world — with range charts, how each one makes its sound, and hand-drawn diagrams.TheoryA structured course in music theory and harmony — pitch, intervals, scales and modes, chords, harmonic progression, counterpoint, rhythm, melody, form, notation and performance practice. Every entry pairs playable examples with hand-drawn diagrams, all originally written in Chinese and English.GlossaryA music glossary you can read as well as look things up in — terms, people, genres, instruments and Chinese music, each defined in a sentence and linked to deeper reading elsewhere.LibraryAn open MIDI archive — over a hundred thousand tracks to listen to, browse and download, each labelled with its source and licence.DimensionsAnother way into the same catalogue — organised by composer, Chinese folk-song province, genre, period, instrument and source.PacksDataset packs — bundled by use case and by dimension, so you can take a whole batch in one download.SoundFontsA SoundFont catalogue — what is included, how each one is licensed, and where to download it. Only freely usable soundfonts are distributed.