Re: Mutopia web site

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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> > The trick is that it is very easy to do if you have the MIDI file.
> > You grab the list of pitches from a MIDI file, and transpose it twelve
> > times.

> Just transpose once so the first note is `c', or `a', or whatever you like,
> but consistently.  The search engine merely does the same with the request.
> No need to store twelve times.  And of course, you do not even store the
> first note, as it is implied.

That doesn't work, because we don't have software that automatically
selects the themes from a work.  If I enter

        dis e dis e b d c a 

(leaving the first note off Fur Elise), I still want to find the same
melody.



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