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A Brief History of Composers Sneaking Their Names into Their Music
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2019-10-11 10:40:50
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A musical cryptogram is a sequence of pitches that utilizes the relationship between the note names and letters of the alphabet to spell out words. Most often, it has been used by composers to secretly embed their own name or initials into a piece of music. A lot of composers use the German spelling for the notes so that in addition to the musical letters A-B-C-D-E-F-G, it also includes the letters H and S on chromatic pitches.
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