Clair de Lune

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Uploaded by on Dec 20, 2007

Score-style spectral animation

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  • i understand all of that. I just think that the colorful dots that are supposed to represent notes are unaligned with their respective clefs. I have the sheet music for this song, and that's how I can recognize that the notes are seemingly off.

    Plus, what's with the very very very top colors? They have no place in this.

  • Thanks for your interest!

    The gray at the top edge is the loudness (the waveform profile); the darker gray is the moving average. Colors below that are high harmonics.

    The key signature is 5 flats, and each flatted note is drawn lower than the natural. The blue Ab at :02 is placed just above the G staff line (below the space for A natural). The orange Db at :04 is placed just below the D staff line, etc.

  • This is a spectrogram of a recording. Frequencies are spaced evenly, so flatted notes are lower than naturals (e.g. Db/C# is below the 4th line, and above the space for C). Also, unlike sheet music, you see partials (harmonics).

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This video is a response to Debussy, Clair de lune (piano music)
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  • I wish i had this software. It show the the different notes/soundwaves and pitch so well.

  • Maybe, maybe not. This piece starts out as marked exclusively on the treble clef, and only starts incorporating bass clef notes in about the seventh bar. Inclusion of harmonics then could very well account for the apparent discrepancies. Still, I can't know for certain, so we are left to speculate.

  • i really don't think treble and bass clef are where they're supposed to be ...

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