a lot of the inspiration for the harder puzzles came from Dr. Code (yes his real name!):
David Løberg Code (2023) Can musical encryption be both? A survey of
music-based ciphers, Cryptologia, 47:4, 318-364, DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2021.2021565 To link to this article:
https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2021.2021565
Big shout out to the Hofstra university librarians and Inter Library Loan that were able to get me this article!
Some of the article is summarized (and free to access) here:
By mapping notes to letters, some musicians sneak secret words into tunes.
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