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This will be a help file one day!
Advice:
Use
In the first (Category) field, select
the type of tune required, reels, jigs, hornpipes, waltzes, slip jigs,
etc. See the database page for more details.
In the next (Mode) field, select one
of the following.
- notes : This causes a search for
tunes containing a given note sequence, which may occur anywhere in
the tune. The sequence can overlap bar lines.
- notesbarstart : To search for a
given note sequence in the tunes, but it must occur starting at the
beginning of a bar.
- notesstart : To search for a given
note sequence in the tune, but it must occur starting at the beginning
of the tune (ignoring lead-in notes).
- chords : To search for tunes containing
a given chord sequence anywhere in the tune;
- chordsbarstart : To search for a
given chord sequence in the tune, but it must occur starting at the
beginning of a bar.
- chordsstart : To search for a given
chord sequence in the tune, but it must occur starting at the beginning
of a bar.
- title : To search for tunes with
the title or acknowledgment containing a given keyword.
- nearest* : To search for tunes stylistically
similar to a given tune. The command uses our stylistic similarity engine
suggest about 8 other tunes of similar style.
- nearestl : This searches using
clustering based on a note-length distribution algorithm, fairly
crude at present.
- nearestp : Another similarity
algorithm, based on the pitches of the notes in the piece (relative
to the key).
- nearesti : Yet another similarity
algorithm, this time based on the interval pattern between consecutive
notes of the piece.
- nearest : A combination of the
above three methods, and therefore rather slow. The two integers
at the end of each line indicate the number of hits among the three
algorithms (3 = good, 2 = average) followed by the average distance
metric (the lower the value, the better the match).
- nearesth : A similar harmonic
structure to the first pohrase.
In the third (Request) field, the
note browsing options (notes, notesbarstart, notesstart)
require you to specify a note sequence by typing e.g.
c b c d e e
to pick out the start of Knick-Knack.
Type the required sequence of notes
in lower case; for major keys, give them as they would appear in the key
of C, for minor keys, as they would appear in A minor.
The note "b-flat" w.r.t. the key of C is
to be typed as "b-", "e-flat" as "e-", "a-flat" as "a-", "d-flat" as "d-",
"f-sharp" as "f+", "c-sharp" as "c+", "g-sharp" as "g+" and "d-sharp"
as "d+".
For options requiring a chord sequence (chords
etc) the chord names are in capital letters, e.g.
with "m" for minor and "7" for dominant seventh
chords (that's all the choice at the moment). Type "D." for any type of
"D" chord. Do not repeat any chords, we treat consecutive identical chords
as a single chord.
The last options (title, nearest,
etc) require that you name a specific music file (starts lower case, given
on the other pages) or type a keyword from a title (starting upper case)
or acknowledgement.
The "title" options prints out all files
containing this keyword.
The "nearest" options take the first file
with this keyword, and list about 8 stylistically similar tunes. The list
starts with the name of the tune being used as the basis of the comparisons.
The others are listed in order, closest first.
There are many obvious extensions when time
permits. Suggestions welcome.
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