Some people just like making things difficult for themselves. Although the music world is full of software that can transcribe anything from solo singers to full orchestras into sheet music, one programmer-slash-musician has created a new open-source tool named Alda that uses a command line interface to write music. This means you notate a melody as a stream of letters and characters, adding numbers after the letters to indicate the length of notes. For example, the opening phrase of the nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep would be rendered as g4 g > d4 d e8 e e e d4 r4 in Alda. (Once the length of a note has been changed it stays the same; the ">" represents a change in the octave, and the 'r' is a rest.)
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