Öttingen-Wallerstein Music Cipher

Source: Friedrich von Öttingen-Wallerstein, Steganographia comitis, ca. 1600

Type your message in the plaintext box to encipher. The third letter of each angel's name is the plaintext alphabet. Uppercase letters change the rhythmic pattern. < or + transposes up a fifth; > or - transposes back down. (Both of these are marked by rests in the ciphermelody.) Spaces are ignored. Punctuations add bar lines or a new staff.

   Plaintext:

            Clef:         Tonic:         Unit:

Listen to cipher melody:                                                                                                                       

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