Order matters
A message is read as a compact subject–verb–object pattern with optional tense, negation, relation, time and question markers.
01 / the root system
Seven notes.
Seven doors.
These are the founding words. Extended words combine two notes; the pitch order is part of the meaning. Tap a note to hear a tone, or read the pitch and word without sound.
Soundless fallback: each card shows pitch and word in text.
02 / make and test
Compose
then decode.
Choose a short message, hear its note sequence, then paste the code into the short-code demo decoder, or open a MusicXML score. Malformed input is reported, never guessed.
Compose a message
Score / code
D | G | E
Word rests: | Sentence rests (scores): longer gaps — not modelled in this short-code demo.
Short-code demo · not MusicXML
Decode a short code
I / MISS / YOU
This browser demo accepts pitch spellings from the v1.1.0 dictionary only (D E F# G A B C#). For real scores, use the MusicXML decoder below.
MusicXML decoder · browser port of the reference
Decode a MusicXML score
No score loaded.
Decoding runs in your browser; the file is not uploaded. Only passages declared with A7_START / A7_END staff text are read. Compressed .mxl files, MIDI and audio recordings are not supported. On 453 test scores (the 51 conformance fixtures, the founding-work scores and 400 generated variants) this port gave exactly the same output as the Python reference decoder.
The v1.1.0 vocabulary
56 words, including 49 extensions.
| Word | Notes | Meaning | Tier |
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03 / the rules
Small by design.
AMORA/7 is a constrained musical protocol, not a claim to encode every nuance of ordinary language.
Gaps are grammar
In the score, rests separate words and sentences. The reference decoder measures them; it does not smooth away ambiguity.
Limits stay visible
No articles, numbers, plural inflection or dedicated object-pronoun tokens. YOU LOVE I can mean “you love me” by positional convention.
AMORA/7 is not the first musical language; Solresol and other musical codes predate it. The short-code demo is a simplified teaching tool; the MusicXML decoder on this page is a browser port of the reference decoder, checked against it case by case.
04 / evidence
Verified,
not claimed.
The interesting part is not that musical languages have precedents. It is that these messages can be checked.
67 tests
61 protocol/conformance tests plus six founding-work integration tests run together against the reference package.
Independent scores
Hand-authored Dorico and MuseScore exports test the notation path, including transposing instruments.
Decoder honesty
Invalid declarations, wrong pitches and malformed gaps return diagnostics instead of invented meaning.
05 / context
It has ancestors.
It has a different job.
Solresol showed that language could live in musical syllables. Bach and Shostakovich hid signatures in notes. Morse has travelled through music for generations. AMORA/7 makes a compact, testable vocabulary for scored musical messages — and will publish the rules that let anyone check them.
06 / the first work
The Reply
A musical work built around AMORA/7 and International Morse: flute, celesta, piano, violoncello, and the space between messages.
Opening window: the flute passage at bar 9. Recording, score video, score, MusicXML, and libretto — available now.
Score video — watch on YouTube.
Score
The full score (PDF) and MusicXML come with The Reply, alongside the recording and libretto.
07 / status
Live on 0dB Labs.
v1.1.0
Specification
v1.1.0 steward-ratified
Luigi Pascal Rondanini · 26 October 2026
Planned licences
Documentation & dictionary: CC BY 4.0
Reference software: MIT
Applied when the package is published.
Demo flute audio: VSCO-2-CE FluteSusNV (CC0), Versilian Studios / Sam Gossner. Trademark clearance not claimed.
First work
The Reply — founding piece on AMORA/7. Recording, score, and libretto.
Second work
The Heart Returns Home — symphonic poem using all 56 words. Recording, score video, score, and libretto.