Draw a tune

Drag a line up and down. You hear it as eight notes, then phrases from our archive that make the same move.

Draw a tune is one part of the Melody Glider, a working prototype we built for composers. The full Glider reads 13,295 works, splits them into 218,627 phrases, tags what each phrase does, and can name a famous theme from a melody someone types in. This page uses the up-and-down shape of a melody and matches it against phrases by composers who died before 1956 and from traditional tunes. See the Melody Glider