Each date has a unique Solfa § Key associated with it. You can encrypt your message based on today's date, a birthday, etc., and then send your recipient the date for the § Key, instead of the musical Solfa § Key.
Enter a date in the boxes above to convert it into musical elements.
Decoding:
To extract the solfa cipher from an encrypted melody, you must determine the scale degrees and unit placement for each note based on the original § Key.
Take the following example:
By itself, Tune-395 is unreadable without knowing the original Solfa § Key. The written clef, key signature and time signature for the tune may be a decoy:
Even if the clef and key signature in the decoy were correct, you wouldn't know for certain which note was Do. A key signature with two flats, for example, could be Bb Major (in which the case the first note of the tune appears to be So); G Minor (first note = Le); C Dorian (first note = Me); etc.
In this case, § Key-395 shows us that the tune is meant to be read in treble clef, in D Major, with an 8th note unit.
Using the § Key, you can write out the correct scale with its associated solfege syllables (Do=D, Re=E, Mi=F#, Fa=G, So=A, La=B, Ti=C#) and divide up the rhythms into counts of four 8th notes. The first downbeat is always '1'; some melodies start on an upbeat.
The extracted cipher symbols can then be typed into the Solfa Cipher box above to translate back into plain text:
You must include a space between each note; enter '=' at the end of the cipher text.
If you don't have access to this website, you can manually encode and decode messages with this cipher grid:
Do
Re
Mi
Fa
So
La
Ti
1:
T
I
A
S
E
N
O
:1
2:
K
Z
X
QØ
J
Å
Æ
:2
3:
R
C
H
M
D
L
U
:3
4:
F
Y
G
P
W
B
V
:4
Do
Ra
Me
Fi
So
Le
Te
The mapping of letters to scale degrees and beats within the cipher is intended to produce relatively simple musical melodies that you could sing or play. It is optimized for English and other Western European languages. Try typing in completely random letters and compare these melodies with ones generated by common words. With 28 possible cipher symbols, L2 and T2 are not needed for English. This table includes three additional vowels from Scandinavian languages: Å, Æ and Ø. The latter shares the same cipher symbol as Q, as it is highly improbable that there would ever be confusion between them in a word. You could choose to use these for other non-English letters or characters.
http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/solfa-cipher/secrets/index.html
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