Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1988-12-22
1991-04-02
Grimley, A. T.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84613, 84637, 84638, 84669, 84716, G01H 700, G01H 138, G01H 128
Patent
active
050038605
ABSTRACT:
An automatic accompaniment apparatus plays, in real-time, an accompanimental line that is subordinated to a melodic line and formed by a succession of harmonic and nonharmonic tones. The apparatus comprises a key determining unit which determines a key in the current chord interval from a series of chords supplied from a musical performance input unit such as a keyboard, an arpeggio generator which forms the arpeggio portion of accompanimental line in the current chord interval by using the members of the current chord, and a nonharmonic generator which produces the nonharmonic portion of accompanimental line in the current chord interval by selecting nonharmonic tones from a scale having the determined key. In an embodiment, there is further provided a knowledge memory storing knowledge of classifying nonharmonic tones and an accompaniment memory storing accompanimental pattern data forming the basis of the final accompanimental line. The pattern data comprise a row of harmonic and nonharmonic tone identifiers with timings indicating when respective tones should be sounded. An inference engine makes use of the stored knowledge to find nonharmonic tones corresponding to the respective identifiers of nonharmonic tones in the pattern. Therefore, the present apparatus can provide a musical accompaniment that is tonal and diversified.
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Casio Computer Co. Ltd.
Grimley A. T.
Smith Matthew S.
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