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The shape of song

This is pretty cool: The Shape of Song.

The diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition.

You can select a song from the list and view its shape -- or upload your own MIDI file. The shape below is, of course, one of the tracks from Pachelbel's Canon.

From J-Walk Blog.

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Posted by Alex Tabarrok on July 16, 2004 at 07:30 AM in Music | Permalink

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