  Music holds a significant cultural role in social identity and in the
encouragement of socialization. Technology, by the destruction of physical and
cultural distance, has lead to many changes in musical themes and the complete
loss of forms. Yet, it also allows for the preservation and distribution of
music from societies without a history of written sheet music. This paper
presents early work on a tool for musicians and ethnomusicologists to
transcribe sheet music from monophonic voiced pieces for preservation and
distribution. Using FFT, the system detects the pitch frequencies, also other
methods detect note durations, tempo, time signatures and generates sheet
music. The final system is able to be used in mobile platforms allowing the
user to take recordings and produce sheet music in situ to a performance.
