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Module realizer

Module realizer 

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Realizing a figured bass line: music21’s figuredBass.realizer.

A FiguredBassLine is a run of bass notes, each with its figures, in a key and a meter. Realizing it makes a Segment of each note as the line is written – a note cut at a barline is two – finds every pair of voicings each segment may move to the next by, and drops the voicings that lead nowhere, leaving a Realization: every way of voicing the whole line that keeps the rules, which it can count, list, pick from, and write out as a score.

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FiguredBassLine
A bass line and its figures, in a key and a meter.
Realization
Every way of voicing a figured bass line: music21’s Realization.