PyTheory Playground. Interactive tool for exploring music theory and guitar chords.
github.com/kennethreitz/pytheory-playground
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Updates
July 2026
- Bump pytheory to 0.57.13 — real oud voice for maqamat
- Elevate the frontend; move About out of the nav
- feat: pytheory 0.57.12 — maqamat, Carnatic ragas, any-chord voicings,…
June 2026
- Disable sessions on the API
- Bump responder to 5.0.0
- feat: surface the rest of 0.54 theory — neo-Riemannian, non-chord ton…
- feat: surface 0.54 theory — reharmonize, cadences, secondary dominant…
- Bump pytheory to 0.54.1 (34 built-in progressions, correct Roman-nume…
- Remove the Harmonize panel
- feat: ragas, negative harmony, key chord-families/circle, and a metro…
- Match the octocat corner to kennethreitz.org dark mode
- Add the GitHub octocat corner ribbon and a Makefile
- Point the Documentation link to pytheory.org
- Point the intro PyTheory link to the docs at pytheory.org
- Link ableton-pytheory from the About page
- Stop the strobe disc vanishing when the mic tuner starts
- Render the strobe disc when idle, not just while running
- Default the playback sound to electric piano
- Make chord identification far more sensitive
- pytheory 0.50: live chord identification in the tuner
- Restore the Play song / MIDI / PDF buttons
- AAC audio, responsive renders, and a Songwriter mixer
- Layout: promote Harmonize, group the nav, collapse deep theory