Music NGram Viewer

I have a fake book which has a song finder. For a sequence of notes, just write down whether each note is higher, lower, or the same as the preceding note. There is a table at the end listing, for all such sequences, the songs that match the sequence. Works like a champ.

I've always thought it would be nice to write an engine to crawl the entire classical ouvre looking for more examples of cockney influences, in a homage to the great Bill Bailey[0]

Looks like these people have sort of genericised that idea, but what I'm talking about is more of a fuzzy search. Shame the code isn't available along with the dataset.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQyR0HRxNEA

EDIT: the "shave and a haircut" riff is better known in the UK as the "cockney intro," so I guess it's not there?

Typing in numbers is not the easiest of user interfaces. Why not a JavaScript piano?

http://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html

Nice, but it needs a bigger backend library. I entered the "shave and a haircut" riff and received no meaningful results.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Shave_and_a_h...

http://www.peachnote.com/#!nt=singleNoteAffine&npq=60+-5...

It'd be nice if it was possible to search up an exact song based on the melody. Sometimes I remember a melody but I can't remember what song it came from, and it drives me nuts trying to find it.

I've been thinking about something like this for a while actually. My dreams have come true...

Would love to see a version of this for popular music

Terrific!