[Solution] All That Jazz – 16 September 2024

This puzzle consists of a piece of music with notes ranging from C3 to C#5, a range containing twenty-five semitones. (Twenty-six notes, counting both ends.) It makes sense to match these pitches to the letters of the alphabet to create a cipher.

All twenty-six notes, paired with letters

Using this cipher, with the bar lines signifying the spaces between words, the notes in the puzzle spell out WELL DONE! THE ANSWER IS MOZART SYMPHONY -KEVIN. The answer is MOZART SYMPHONY.

Astute solvers will notice that in the second and fourth measures, it would be proper to include natural signs on the second E or F of the measures. These were left out to try to avoid confusing the less musically-inclined solvers, but I hope this decision didn’t negatively affect anybody’s solving experience.