Playing music with PowerShell

While continuing my journey to continue learning Microsoft PowerShell, I thought back to the early days of making music with computers. I have worked on many projects throughout the years, using several languages, and making simple music has been a repeated challenge that I have used to help learn timing, loops, functions and debugging. While doing so in PowerShell, I located a site that had already published frequency information at https://sl.advdat.com/NotesAndFrequencies, the related .NET information at https://sl.advdat.com/2WghUEV  and finally the PowerShell call '[System.Console]::Beep(frequency,length in milliseconds)'.  After compiling this information, I took the examples I found and produced the following code:

##########Begin Script##############

# Notes

$Dsharp1 = 38.891

$E1 = 41.203

$F1 = 43.654

$Fsharp1 = 46.249

$G1 = 48.999

$Gsharp1 = 51.913

$A1 = 55

$Asharp1 = 58.27

$B1 = 61.735

$C2 = 65.406

$Csharp2 = 69.296

$D2 = 73.416

$Dsharp2 = 77.782

$E2 = 82.407

$F2 = 87.307

$Fsharp2 = 92.499

$G2 = 97.999

$Gsharp2 = 103.826

$A2 = 110

$Asharp2 = 116.541

$B2 = 123.471

$C3 = 130.813

$Csharp3 = 138.591

$D3 = 146.832

$Dsharp3 = 155.563

$E3 = 164.814

$F3 = 174.614

$Fsharp3 = 184.997

$G3 = 195.998

$Gsharp3 = 207.652

$A3 = 220

$Asharp3 = 233.082

$B3 = 246.942

$C4 = 261.626 #Middle C

$Csharp4 = 277.183

$D4 = 293.665

$Dsharp4 = 311.127

$E4 = 329.628

$F4 = 349.228

$Fsharp4 = 369.994

$G4 = 391.995

$Gsharp4 = 415.305

$A4 = 440

$Asharp4 = 466.164

$B4 = 493.883

$C5 = 523.251

$Csharp5 = 554.365

$D5 = 587.33

$Dsharp5 = 622.254

$E5 = 659.255

$F5 = 698.456

$Fsharp5 = 739.989

$G5 = 783.991

$Gsharp5 = 830.609

$A5 = 880

$Asharp5 = 932.328

$B5 = 987.767

$C6 = 1046.502

$Csharp6 = 1108.731

$D6 = 1174.659

$Dsharp6 = 1244.508

$E6 = 1318.51

$F6 = 1396.913

$Fsharp6 = 1479.978

$G6 = 1567.982

$Gsharp6 = 1661.219

$A6 = 1760

$Asharp6 = 1864.655

$B6 = 1975.533

$C7 = 2093.005

$Csharp7 = 2217.461

$D7 = 2349.318

$Dsharp7 = 2489.016

$E7 = 2637.021

$F7 = 2793.826

$Fsharp7 = 2959.955

$G7 = 3135.964

# Note Types 60bpm Whole=4000ms

$w=4000 #whole note

$h=$w/2 #half note

$q=$h/2 #quarter note

$e=$q/2 #eighth note

$s=$e/2 #sixteenth note

#Play Middle C

[System.Console]::Beep($C4,$W) # Middle C

Function CMScale{

[System.Console]::Beep($c4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($d4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($e4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($F4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($g4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($a4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($b4,$q)

[System.Console]::Beep($c5,$q)

}

#Call Function

CMScale

##########End Script##############

With this information, you too can create simple music on the console. I have been working through translating some old simplified sheet music, just to see what I can do. It's a bit more enjoyable than the old Hello World scripts we have usually started with. However, I have noted several examples on GitHub as well:

Tetris - https://gist.github.com/HelgeSverre/33361e8a283624dfbbd6
SuperMario - https://gist.github.com/davewilson/5612674

Happy scripting!