Classical Music and Shazam
Monday July 21, 2008
Shazam is a music identifying service I recently discovered by scouring through the new applications store on my iPhone. Knowing that classical music can often be impossible to properly name, I thought maybe this service would be able to help. Well, it works fantastically for main stream artists, however, it lacks the ability to name many classical works. Read more...
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Are you familiar with “A Dictionary of Musical Themes” by Barlow & Morganstern? It has thousands of themes from classical music (mostly pre-20th century), and a clever indexing method whereby you can look up any theme after you’ve transposed it to the key of C (major or minor). I saw this at a friend’s house years ago and immediately ordered a copy. It’s a great resource. Kind of old-fashioned compared to Shazam, I guess, but it works.