RISM search

This demo gives you the opportunity to search in the RISM database. This database contains over a million incipits, that is, the start of the melody of a piece of music.

Piano input

You can input notes by means of a piano interface.

By index

You can also type in a number (between 1 and 1.148.478) to select one of the incipits from the data set as query. Queries are cached. When there is no cached result, computation will take around a minute.

Query number (1 - 1.148.478)
Matching method	Pitch Stress Duration Exact Pitch Zigzag Pitch Kranenburg Pitch Ignore Weigh pitch Combine with pitch Ignore Fixed Scaled
Result count

More info

We have a separate page with a bit of background about the representation of melodies and the different matching methods. There is also more information about the software that was used to build this demo.