Musipedia

Musipedia is a search engine for identifying pieces of music. This can be done by whistling a theme, playing it on a virtual piano keyboard, or entering the Parsons code. Anybody can modify the collection of melodies and enter MIDI files, bitmaps with sheet music (possibly generated by the Musipedia server after entering Lilypond or abc source code), lyrics or some text about the piece, and last, but not least, the melodic contours as Parsons Code. One could say that Musipedia is for musical themes what Wikipedia is for words.

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Parsons code: The Parsons code is a simple notation used to identify a song through melodic motion—the motion of the pitch up and down. The code was developed by Denys Parsons for his 1975 book, The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes. Representing a melody in this manner makes it easy to index or search ...

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