Editing Melody Catalogue Data.

This screen displays catalogue information for the currently loaded melody (or tune), and permits it to be changed. This information is stored in the Musical Discovery database, and is used to match tunes to composers, categories, periods, etc, in many of the Musical Discovery screens. Therefore, it is important to fill in this information after a new tune has been created, in order that the full search and musicology features of Musical Discovery be effective. Once filled in, save the tune to disk (in the Musical Discovery database) by clicking the Save to Disk button, at bottom left of the screen.

The two absolute minimum essential items are the Title for the music - a full description such as "Symphony No 2 in G,  Opus 42, 1st Movement"; and the FileName - a brief code name for the music, used to identify the tune in all database tables. It is preferable that this be short and contain NO embedded spaces, quotes, slashes or dashes. 

The Composer, Category, Solo Instrument, Ensemble, Period and Length fields are all optional, but highly desirable items of information. They may each be selected from a drop-down box. 

The key, Tempo and Beats per bar are all essential items of information. Without them, there will be no key nor time signature at the start of all staff notation screens.

When all this data has been entered, click the green button Save to Disk (Database).

The blue button "View Tracks"  opens up an edit screen for track data. and the yellow button View Notes  displays a grid of all notes in this tune, for editing. If there are words (or lyrics) stored with this tune, a message to this effect will be shown in the For Information Only section. You may click the lilac View Words button to edit these. Likewise, if there are chords stored, the info will show this, and you may click the pink button View Chords to view and edit these.

If you click the light yellow button Delete entire tune from disk, a confirmation message will appear. If your reply is YES,  the tune table will be removed from the Musical Discovery database, together with all catalogued references to it.

The orange button at bottom right View statistical analysis of this tune displays a report analysing the tonality, and interval and rhythmic patterns of this tune.


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