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From: briang@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: programs that can infer key/meter
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Date: 6 Oct 89 15:36:36 GMT
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In article <15170@netnews.upenn.edu> hardt@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Dan Hardt) writes:
>I'd like to know what programs exist that can
>infer the key and meter of a melody, just based
>on the pitch and duration information.  Does anyone
>know about programs that can do this?

Isn't that what Finale is supposed to do?  The early write-ups (when the
beta-quality version was $1,000+) said it could listen to you play something on
the piano and print it out virtually unassisted (more or less).  It is
supposedly in much better shape now, and a lot cheaper.  Unfortunately, I've
never actually met an owner/user, so I'm just guessing.
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