Tune Recognition Software

[Anglo-Irishman]

Help!

 

A friend has just e-mailed me a snippet of music - 3 bars of standard notation - and challenged me to guess what it is. My wife has played it on the piano, and I've hacked it into Capella and played it back, but we can't recognise it.

 

I've heard of "tune recognisers" for the PC that can identify a piece of music from a (fragmentary) digital version. I can easily export a MIDI file from Capella, or play the snippet into the PC's mic - but what software do you use for this?

 

I've even got no idea whether the piece is classical or pop.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Cheers,

John

[Alex West]

There's Shazam which is quite poppy, or I've also used Folk Tune Finder for - well, folk tunes. I don't know about classical

 

Alex West

[Henk van Aalten]

Hi Alex and John

At thesession.org you can search on fragments of ABC notation. See attached photo. I guess you have to be a member for this search facility.
Good Luck

 

[Peter Laban]

Tunepal would be the thing, if you want to play part of the tune into a microphone, phone or where ever you are accessing the software from. It only searches Irish on-line collections.

 

ABC tunefinder

 

Folktune finder

 

Reverend's tune search

 

ABC notation.com tune search

 

Tune db

 

All have some search ability, mostly using phrases in ABC notation but all search more or less the same pool of online collections

Edited March 9, 2014 by Peter Laban

[David Barnert]

Help!

 

A friend has just e-mailed me a snippet of music - 3 bars of standard notation - and challenged me to guess what it is. My wife has played it on the piano, and I've hacked it into Capella and played it back, but we can't recognise it.

 

I've heard of "tune recognisers" for the PC that can identify a piece of music from a (fragmentary) digital version. I can easily export a MIDI file from Capella, or play the snippet into the PC's mic - but what software do you use for this?

 

I've even got no idea whether the piece is classical or pop.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Cheers,

John

 

Can you post what you've got on the tune here? Maybe one of us will recognize it without resorting to software. We are, after all, musicians of varied backgrounds.

[Steve Mansfield]

 

Can you post what you've got on the tune here? Maybe one of us will recognize it without resorting to software. We are, after all, musicians of varied backgrounds.

 

 

I'm in too. Enjoy this sort of thing (even if I do sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with the answer)

[cboody]

 

 

Can you post what you've got on the tune here? Maybe one of us will recognize it without resorting to software. We are, after all, musicians of varied backgrounds.

 

 

I'm in too. Enjoy this sort of thing (even if I do sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with the answer)

 

Funny I often wake up in the night without the answer... I'd like to see the snippet too...

[Chris Ghent]

Google works very well for tune snippets written in ABC. Ie. google EAA EAA BAB G

 

It usually takes more than three or four notes to come to the top because everything has an acronym these days...

[Wolf Molkentin]

That's great Chris, albeit I get a tune from the-session.org which doesn't seem to contain the entire snippet...

[Spinningwoman]

http://www.musipedia.org is good as it offers a number of different ways - the 'musical contour' works well for me as you don't need to get the key right or even be accurate with the intervals, just get the ups and downs - I had the Dorset Four Hand reel stuck in my head and had no luck with Shazam etc, but this came up with it.

[Chris Ghent]

That's great Chris, albeit I get a tune from the-session.org which doesn't seem to contain the entire snippet...

I think google gives different results depending on your location and your history, but the first four results for this search https://www.google.com.au/#q=EAA+EAA+BAB+G were different sites naming the tune The Lilting Banshee. What was your example..?

[Wolf Molkentin]

 

That's great Chris, albeit I get a tune from the-session.org which doesn't seem to contain the entire snippet...

I think google gives different results depending on your location and your history, but the first four results for this search https://www.google.com.au/#q=EAA+EAA+BAB+G were different sites naming the tune The Lilting Banshee. What was your example..?

'Twas "Old Man Dillon" - and I might have to admit having omitted the spaces... Anyway, that doesn't really explain it, does it?

[David Barnert]

http://www.musipedia.org is good as it offers a number of different ways - the 'musical contour' works well for me as you don't need to get the key right or even be accurate with the intervals, just get the ups and downs - I had the Dorset Four Hand reel stuck in my head and had no luck with Shazam etc, but this came up with it.

 

Similar comments, if it's classical music you're looking for, in regard to themefinder.org.

[David Barnert]

 

 

That's great Chris, albeit I get a tune from the-session.org which doesn't seem to contain the entire snippet...

I think google gives different results depending on your location and your history, but the first four results for this search https://www.google.com.au/#q=EAA+EAA+BAB+G were different sites naming the tune The Lilting Banshee. What was your example..?

'Twas "Old Man Dillon" - and I might have to admit having omitted the spaces... Anyway, that doesn't really explain it, does it?

 

Add the spaces and you get just what Chris described. I know the tune as "Tenpenny Bit" and that shows up somewhat further down the list.

[Anglo-Irishman]

Hello, all you puzzle freaks,

 

Here's the tune snippet I had to guess the title of.

 

Take your time, I have meanwhile solved the problem. My daughter identified it straight off the bat. I suppose that's just the payback for my investment in her musical education.

 

Just to keep up the suspense, I won't tell you what she said ...

 

Cheers,

John

 

 

[alex_holden]

ABC:

 

X:1

L:1/8

M:C

K:C

^DE c2 z2 FE | ^D>B-B2 z4 | ^DE/c/-c z z

It sounds vaguely familiar but I can't place it.

[chas]

 

 

 

That's great Chris, albeit I get a tune from the-session.org which doesn't seem to contain the entire snippet...

I think google gives different results depending on your location and your history, but the first four results for this search https://www.google.com.au/#q=EAA+EAA+BAB+G were different sites naming the tune The Lilting Banshee. What was your example..?

'Twas "Old Man Dillon" - and I might have to admit having omitted the spaces... Anyway, that doesn't really explain it, does it?

 

Add the spaces and you get just what Chris described. I know the tune as "Tenpenny Bit" and that shows up somewhat further down the list.

 

Getting a bit off topic but Tenpenny Bit, which starts eAA eAA is a different tune from Lilting Banshee, which starts similarly with EAA EAA

[David Barnert]

 

 

 

 

That's great Chris, albeit I get a tune from the-session.org which doesn't seem to contain the entire snippet...

I think google gives different results depending on your location and your history, but the first four results for this search https://www.google.com.au/#q=EAA+EAA+BAB+G were different sites naming the tune The Lilting Banshee. What was your example..?

'Twas "Old Man Dillon" - and I might have to admit having omitted the spaces... Anyway, that doesn't really explain it, does it?

 

Add the spaces and you get just what Chris described. I know the tune as "Tenpenny Bit" and that shows up somewhat further down the list.

 

Getting a bit off topic but Tenpenny Bit, which starts eAA eAA is a different tune from Lilting Banshee, which starts similarly with EAA EAA

 

They both start with EAA EAA BAB G, which is all we had to work with, and since google (unlike abc) ignores case, either is a reasonable guess.