Your Name
in Notes

Did you know composers have been hiding secret messages in their music for centuries? It's called musical cryptography — and you can try it yourself!

It works by swapping each letter of a word for a musical note. There are only 7 note names (A to G), so once you get to H, you simply start over from A again. For example, ELGAR becomes E–E–G–A–D, because L and R both wrap back around to E and D, respectively.

The most famous example is BACH — Johann Sebastian Bach actually wove his own name into his music as a hidden signature! Turn on German mode below to hear it properly: in Germany, B means B♭ and H means B♮, so BACH spells a genuine four-note motif: B♭–A–C–B♮.