Cazden Music Cipher

Source: Norman Cazden, How to Compose Non-Music, 1961

Type your message in the plaintext box to encipher. Upper-case letters will produce an enharmonic equivalent or add an explicit natural sign. You may select the durational value assigned to letters and numbers separately. Spaces are ignored. Punctuations add bar lines or a new staff.

   Plaintext:

            Letter unit:         Number Unit:


Listen to cipher melody:                                                                                                                       

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