Welcome to Jird’s documentation!

Jird is a little language for writing and hearing music in just intonation. It uses ratios to express frequencies, durations, and volumes.

Example source:

MORSEL

Chords

<1 5/4 8/5 15/8>:2 9/8*<1 9/8 5/4 3/2>:2
8/9*<1 5/4 8/5 15/8>:2 1*<1 9/8 5/4 3/2>:2
<1 5/4 8/5 15/8>:2 9/8*<1 9/8 5/4 3/2>:2
5/6*<5/4 4/3 3/2 2>:2 5/6*<6/5 4/3 3/2 2>:2
;

Bass

1/4*(
    1:2 9/8:2
    8/9:2 1:2
    1:2 9/8:2
    5/6*5/4:2 5/6*6/5:2
)

Output sheet music:

_images/music_example.png

Output audio:


Some music made with jird is on SoundCloud.

The jird source code is available on github.

Contents

Indices and tables