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Melograph

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Mel´o`graph    (mĕl´ô`gråf)
n.1.Same as Melodiograph.


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In the early 1970s, she worked with Charles Seeger at UCLA, playing recordings into his specially-designed device, the melograph, which generated large scrolls of graphic representations of music.
The majority are in score format, but examples of other forms (solfege, mnemonic graphemes, melograph, and metrical text) are also represented.
Ellis was not by any means the first to use machine- or computer-aided measurement and graphic notation of musical pitch and interval (the first extensive use of such aids came with Charles Seeger's development of the melograph at UCLA around 1950); nor is she the only musicologist in Australia to have used such aids.
 
 
 
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