Automatic music composing apparatus and computer readable medium

Details Automatic music composing apparatus and computer readable medium Automatic music composing apparatus and computer readable medium

1998-10-13

2000-06-13

Nappi, Robert E.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84610, 84634, 84649, 84650, G10H 700

Patent

active

060751932

ABSTRACT:
An automatic music composing apparatus comprises a musical template data base storing a plurality of musical templates each including a first set of data constituting a musical melody sample defined by a pattern of musical tone pitch progression in a pattern of rhythm to be performed for a musical piece and a second set of data indicative of musical features of said musical melody sample. The melody sample is constructed and partitioned in such a hierarchical structure that a musical piece is comprised of sentences, each sentence is comprised of phrases, each phrase is comprised of measures, and each measure includes a plurality of notes having respective pitches and durations to constitute a melody segment having a rhythm pattern. The apparatus comprises an input device for inputting composition conditions to define musical features for a musical piece to be composed in terms of the number of sentences, phrases and measures, and similarity symbols of each sentence. Comparing the structure and the features of each template with the requested composition conditions, the apparatus retrieves candidate templates from the database according to the substitution rules unique to the invention.

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patent: 5705761 (1998-01-01), Minamitaka
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