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The Music Language is simply a way of encoding messages into pieces of music. Think Morse Code, Sign Language, or Braille, but instead of dashes and dots, hand signals, or raised bumps, it’s notes and chords!

If you have a good enough ear to identify what you’re hearing, and you know how to map the musical combinations and sequences onto letters, then that’s all you need to be fluent in the language. But the catch is, I’m not actually going to explain how the code works here — you have to figure it out.* Once you learn it though, it’s pretty fun:

Depending on how much of a nerd you are, you either think I’m extremely cool or extremely uncool right now. I’m not really sure what, if any, use there is for this beyond a fairly fun party trick (at what would have to be a fairly dull party).** Regardless, I’m pretty psyched about it, and I hope you enjoy playing around with it.

Email themusiclanguage10@gmail.com with a video of you solving it if you figure it out, or if you want a hint (or if you find a bug).

Have fun!

- Clyde Lawrence

*You can email me at themusiclanguage10@gmail.com if you want a hint.

**Some other possible uses off the top of my head: