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Thread #37291   Message #519794
Posted By: M.Ted
02-Aug-01 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: systematic tune and song structure?
Subject: RE: systematic tune and song structure?
But what is it you want to compare? If it is meter, remember that meter depends of syllabic stress, which is not apparent from word spellings. You'd have to develop a way to enter words that indicated where the syllable were, and whether they were stressed or unstressed--basically, you'd have to figure out the meter of a lyric before you could enter it--

As to melody, when you notate a piece of music, you create a representation of it's rhythmic an melodic structure that then is used to recreate the piece. Again, what do you want to compare? Why do you need a computer to do it?