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Author: rt
Posted: Feb 24 2006 - 06:05 PM
Subject: re: Mysterious Jazzy tune on website

Timidity does a good job with visualizing the contents of MIDI files if it is started with the parameters -iat.

For example:
timidity -iat mymidifile.mid
would show all text events as they occur. The sound events are visualized as well on several piano keyboards for the different channels.

http://www.google.com/search?q=timidity+midi

Author: lephillips
Posted: Feb 24 2006 - 05:53 PM
Subject: re: Mysterious Jazzy tune on website

Thanks, all new to me but very helpful. Thanks again!

Author: w0lfie
Posted: Feb 23 2006 - 07:50 PM
Subject: re: re: Mysterious Jazzy tune on website

It occured to me that I forgot to tell you how to examine a MIDI file. If you have a MIDI editor, there should be some way to view the file properties. If you don't have a MIDI editor, you should save a copy and rename it with a .txt extension. It will open in a text editor, but it will be mostly garbage. The title and copyright holder will be in plain text, though, and they will be towards the first few lines of the file. Sometimes the instrumentation is in plain text, too. If there are lyrics, they will be in plain text, too, and visible later in the file.

Author: lephillips
Posted: Feb 23 2006 - 06:09 PM
Subject: re: Mysterious Jazzy tune on website

Thanks, very helpful and Peanuts is a great suggestion. Much appreciated that you put me on the right track - we'll have fun searching the library.

Author: w0lfie
Posted: Feb 22 2006 - 10:54 PM
Subject: re: Mysterious Jazzy tune on website

According to the MIDI file, the title is "Play it Again" and the copyright is owned by Novell, of all companies. Next time I go to the library, I'll check out some of the many jazz CDs by that title, or with songs of that title. There are several albums of a similar nature that you could choose from if there is none with this exact song. Given the piano solo at the end, I'd recommend just about any Peanuts movie soundtrack. Seeing as he's a 2-year-old, he might like that anyway. :-)

Author: lephillips
Posted: Feb 22 2006 - 08:44 PM
Subject: Mysterious Jazzy tune on website

My 2-yr-old son is fascinated by this jazzy tune I found on a random website. Every time he hears it he perks up and comes running. He currently calls it the "rectangle song" because of the rectangles on the web page. I'd love to buy him the album or similar genre of music if I could only identify it. Any help appreciated. Here's the site with the tune:
http://www.la-mason.com/scot1.htm
Thanks!

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Add a bit of sheet music, along with a MIDI file, simply by entering note names in Lilypond syntax between the [L] and [/L] tags.
For example, you can try what happens if you enter: [l]g'4 g'4 d''4 d''4 e''4 e''4 d''2[/l] (use the Preview function if you don't actually want to post this).
You can create these lists of note names by clicking on piano keys here.

If you just want to sing, whistle, or play a melody so that other forum visitors can hear it, follow these steps:

1. Record your audio here.
2. You should notice a 32-character hash code, something like: 2a40281c5001c5a7d8c9f57fcdeccfaf
3. copy this hash code and paste it into a forum post, enclosed in the audio tags, for example: [audio]2a40281c5001c5a7d8c9f57fcdeccfaf[/audio]

If the original question in a thread is solved, please mark it as solved using the "solved" icon (or by just typing [solved] into your post). This makes life easier for people who are willing to identify melodies, since unsolved problems are easier to spot that way. If a problem turns out to not be solved after all, just write [/solved] in a new post, and the thread will be labeled accordingly.