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Docent Sigfrid Lundberg, Fil. Dr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lunds Universitets Bibliotek http://www.ub.lu.se/~siglun/
Netlab, Box 3, 221 00 Lund 046-222 36 83
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > "I wasn't sure about putting midi files on - the ones generated by
> > Lilypond at the moment are fairly basic - things like ties are
> > ignored."
> > There are a lot of MIDI file sites on the web, and almost no sheet
> > music ones. I recommend skipping MIDIs.
>
> I think MIDI helps people that don't know the name of the piece but do
> know the melody. If we have MIDI, we could even (at some later
> stage), have queries that take mudela input and search the archive for
> melodies (or transposed versions). You would enter
>
> a gis a gis a e g f d
That's an interesting concept. Now, try searching on
"dff cee|def gfe|dff cee"
in, say, Altavista. Your can actually find abc files using existing search
engines. Mudela is more complicated in this respect.
>
> and the search engine would come up with Fur Elise. Of course the MIDI
> files don't have to be artistically interesting.
There are digital library people working on musical information retrieval
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~jdownie/cfp99.html
Sigge
