Music examples are an obviously valuable and necessary addition to Wikipedia, often superior to text. These are both far more valuable and far more free than music samples being abstract categories applicable to multiple examples without any of the copyright or other law applicable to samples.
But how should these examples be provided? Should they be provided in the most contemporary and advanced technology, for accuracy, even if that software is not accessible to the majority of users? Should it rather present less advanced and accurate examples which are available to far more users? Should it present a diversity; such as the chord apreggiated and simultaneously, or should it be as brief as possible?
Examples
Wikicode may be used to access one of the oldest audio computer files, MIDI, without the explicit creation of a MIDI file. For instance, a major chord may be: :<score sound="1"> { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { \clef treble \time 4/4 \key c \major <c e g>1 } } </score> Producing:
This may be contrasted with an image of a musical score, and with the multiple tunings, such as:
and with depiction such as:
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Major_chord_on_C.png/220px-Major_chord_on_C.png)
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png)
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png)
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png)
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png)
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png)
Just or most equal tempered examples, many and many of which exist, are impossible using Wikicode.
Technical examples
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20220601183321im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Major_triad.svg/330px-Major_triad.svg.png)
Copyright vs. Unsourced
There may be a few instances in which a musical "example" is considered copyrightable, or there may be many instances of use which may require "real world" exapmles.
Technical examples, often visual, are much more free and much more limited to examples from musical scores.