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%NOTE2FIFTHPOSITION find note position on the line of fifths w.r.t. C=0
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% [noteposition, success, errormessage] = note2fifthposition(note,{verbose})
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% Converts a note string to a natural position on the line of fifths and its 
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% corresponding number of sharps or flats. Reference on line of fifths is C = 0.
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% Success = 1 if note converted correctly, 0 otherwise.
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% If optional argument 'verbose' is 1, function prints any errormessage to 
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% calls: 	note2fifthinfo
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% returns:  noteposistion (integer)
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%           success (boolean)
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% Author: Christopher Harte,  September 2005
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% Copyright: Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London 2005 
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% This file is part of the C4DM Chord Toolkit.  
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% The C4DM Chord Toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
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% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published 
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% by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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% (at your option) any later version.
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% The C4DM Chord Toolkit is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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% GNU General Public License for more details.
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% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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% along with the C4DM Toolkit; if not, write to the Free Software
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% Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
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function [noteposition, success, errormessage] = note2fifthposition(note, verbose)
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% set verbose default to 0
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if nargin < 3
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   verbose = 0;
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end
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errormessage = '';
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success = 1;
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noteposition = '';
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[notenatural, noteaccidentals, success1,errormessage] = note2fifthinfo(note);
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if success
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    noteposition = notenatural + 7.*noteaccidentals -1;
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end        
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if (success == 0) && (verbose == 1)   
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    fprintf(1,errormessage);
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end  
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