MariusChamberlin Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 I recently came across this website while perusing stumbleupon: http://www.musipedia.org/flash_piano.html It's a database that let's you input notes of a melody, and then search based on those notes. Almost all of their library as far as I can tell is classical, so that's what your melody will be searching through. But I think it's useful, because it seems whenever I come up with a melody that I really like, I get this sinking feeling that I might have unknowingly taken it from something I've heard before. I've input a melody I'm working on currently that sounds VERY Mozartian, and I was worried I might find something similar. While obviously not exhaustive, I didn't find any matches in their search which kept my hopes up. They also have a java version, as well as a tool that lets you whistle into your mic, but I haven't tried either of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Lee Graham Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Great tool. I use it all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlioz Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Who cares if your melody has influences? It's very hard for you to unknowingly mimick a melody in its entirety! After composing my stuff I've heard a bit of Zimmer's Tortuga in my string quartet, six notes of Liar Liar's soundtrack in my operetta, and other stuff I didn't notice had been there. I think you can't create without some influence, so what's the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanfraser91 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 this is really cool, thanks for the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariusChamberlin Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 Who cares if your melody has influences? It's very hard for you to unknowingly mimick a melody in its entirety! After composing my stuff I've heard a bit of Zimmer's Tortuga in my string quartet, six notes of Liar Liar's soundtrack in my operetta, and other stuff I didn't notice had been there. I think you can't create without some influence, so what's the problem? I put "influence" in quotations (like that) meaning in case you accidentally copy a melody completely. I've done it a few times, but it doesn't happen often. Also it's just a cool resource. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siwi Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 It's not that clever though: it failed to spot a motif that is the subject of a Bach fugue, and a theme I used which was very similar to the chorale in the 2nd movement of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariusChamberlin Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Well I assume it's not exhaustive. Perhaps there's a way to add to it's library. If not, they should work on a way to allow users to link to other preexistent works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Lee Graham Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Yeah, I've tested it by purposely entering existing melodies, and it didn't catch everything. But it has saved my donkey a couple of times, keeping me from wasting time on an idea I'd inadvertently plagiarised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawoodruff Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I fed it three tone rows and each time it came up with some rather amusing works it claimed influenced the row. This is a nice idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_W. Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 seems like no more than a curiosity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Carey Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 It looks like it has potential to be useful. I feel like composers with more "contemporary" harmonic languages will be less likely to need something like this, however. Probably the simplest solution to avoiding writing melodies that sound too much like Mozart would be to... well, not compose like Mozart! ;) And even so, according to Stravinsky: "Good composers borrow, great composers steal." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyy38 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 VERY cool site! Thanks a lot! Only complaint is that some of the javascript examples fail to launch. Just as a lark, I decided to try this. This is me(pay attention to the first three measures only.): http://soundcloud.com/skyy38/ras-al-ghul My results on musipedia: http://www.musipedia.org/result.html?sourceid=flash&tx_mpsearch_pi1[submit_button]=Search&tx_mpsearch_pi1[pc]=hum+00-92-100%2F2488-99-100%2F3741-97-100%2F4765-99-100%2F7356-97-100%2F8329-99-100%2F10768-100-100%2F11981-97-100%2F14256-96-100%2F16127-93-100%2F17112-92-100&coll=m&rvp=0.5&filtertext=&onlymatchfrom=0&ofs=0 I think I'm safe! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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