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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: programs that can infer key/meter
Keywords: Finale?
Message-ID: <484@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 02:51:41 GMT
References: <15170@netnews.upenn.edu> <125936@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <7203@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Organization: ARTSNET  Atlanta, GA  USA
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In article <7203@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> brownd@thor.stolaf.edu () writes:
>In article <125936@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> briang@sun.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>>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.
>
>>Isn't that what Finale is supposed to do?
>
>[Well, sort of,...]
>Even so, Finale is the best program I've ever encountered for handling
>complete pieces of music (as opposed to collections of short sequences) in a
>comnputer/MIDI environment.  It's also so complex that it may well be possible
>to get it to infer such things as meter and key, but it probably isn't as easy
>as we've all been told.

Good luck. Especially on things like changing meters and
syncopations within a strict meter.  If musicians can't agree
on how to notate such (and believe me, that's rampant) how can
someone program 'definitive' decisions about it?

>St. Olaf College has very little to
>do with the things I talk about!

"Vell, ve yust verk, und verk, und verk!" --F. Melius Christiansen

Cheers,

--Mark

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