The Aratu manual

▶ Open in Aratu to hear and change the examples

Aratu is written the way a musician thinks: in bars, beats, note values, chords and score words. If you can read a lead sheet and count a bar, you can read an Aratu piece. This manual describes the whole language; the Learn course teaches it step by step. Every example here can be heard and changed. For people who program, Inside gives each thing its technical name and shows what the computer does with the text.