Haydn Music Cipher

Source: Michael Haydn, cited in Biographische Skizze (Rettensteiner), 1808

Type your message in the plaintext box to encipher. Lower- and upper-case letters produces different durations. Punctuations encrypt as rests; parentheses as clef changes. Spaces are ignored. To add a bar line, type |    To start a new staff, type $

   Plaintext:

            Clef:             Unit:


Listen to cipher melody:                                                                                                                       

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