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>| I was, of course talking a load of twaddle about Scan Tester's No 2 to!!!
>make a
>| point, although I still think there is more to it than simple G major.
>
>Probably the most interesting point is that, if you were to try to
>write a routine that discovers the key (tonic+mode) of a piece, it
>would be a good test piece. One of the standard rules is "Look at the
>last note", but this fails for this tune. It's not an unusual
>failure. Someone else has already pointed out that ending on the
>dominant is fairly normal in many kinds of music. The British Isles
>traditions also have a good number of "neverending" tunes that don't
>cadence on the tonic at all, but just keep returning to the beginning
>forever. The human ear hears this pretty easily, but an algorithm to
>discover it isn't simple.
>I have one, and the next version of BarFly will be able to tell you
what mode to use in the K: field. Don't have time to write about it
now, but I'll post another message later.
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