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Making music with Powershell

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Happy holidays everyone! Ok, this isn’t even remotely related to SQL Server but it sounded fun. I found someone playing music using Powershell (I lost the link, sorry) and thought Christmas Music! (Yes, I’m Jewish and I probably should have done The Dreidel Song or something but I didn’t think of it until it was too late.) So without further ado here is Jingle Bells done in Powershell.

$Notes = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property @{
    REST    = 0
    GbelowC = 196
    A       = 220
    Asharp  = 233
    B       = 247
    C       = 262
    Csharp  = 277
    D       = 294
    Dsharp  = 311
    E       = 330
    F       = 349
    Fsharp  = 370
    G       = 392
    Gsharp  = 415
    AA      = 440
    AAsharp = 466
    BB      = 493
    CC      = 523
    CCsharp = 554
    DD      = 587
    DDsharp = 622
    EE      = 659
    FF      = 698
    FFsharp = 740
    GG      = 784
    GGsharp = 830
    }
$Duration = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property @{
    WHOLE     = 1600
    HALF      = 800
    QUARTER   = 400
    EIGHTH    = 200
    SIXTEENTH = 100
    }
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.HALF   )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.D, $Duration.HALF   )
Start-Sleep -m $Duration.EIGHTH
[console]::beep($Notes.D, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.E, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.E, $Duration.HALF)
Start-Sleep -m $Duration.EIGHTH
[console]::beep($Notes.E, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.HALF   )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.C, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.D, $Duration.HALF   )
Start-Sleep -m $Duration.QUARTER
[console]::beep($Notes.D, $Duration.EIGHTH )
[console]::beep($Notes.E, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.DD, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
Start-Sleep -m $Duration.EIGHTH
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.HALF)
Start-Sleep -m $Duration.EIGHTH
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.AA, $Duration.EIGHTH)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.CC, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.BB, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.G, $Duration.QUARTER)
[console]::beep($Notes.F, $Duration.HALF)

And here is where I got the frequencies for the notes, the sheet music etc.

List of frequencies

Sheet music

Console.Beep

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