Musipedia
This site was also scouted out on The J-Walk Blog. Musipedia is like the oh-so-wonderful Wikipedia, but just for music.
Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour, to make the encyclopedia searchable by melody.
It also has a nifty “name that tune” feature which lets you search by keywords or by melodic contour (Parsons Code). If you have a microphone on your computer, you can even whistle or sing the song into the computer and it will try to match it with songs in its database. The database is not huge yet (under 30,000 records) but it’s a good start and an intriguing idea to be able to whistle that song you remember from childhood but can’t quite place, and get an identification within seconds. Keep an eye on this one…
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