What is music21? — music21 Documentation

What is music21?¶ Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. People use music21 to answer questions from musicology using computers, to study large datasets of music, to generate musical examples, to teach fundamentals of music theory, to edit musical notation, study music and the brain, and to compose music (both algorithmically and directly). One of music21’s mottos is “Lis