Melody composer and arranger

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1992-04-13

1994-01-25

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84612, 84615, 84619, 84645, G10H 700, G04B 1300, A63H 500

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052817547

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for automatically generating an entire musical arrangement including melody and accompaniment on a computer. The invention combines predetermined, short musical phrases modified by selection of random parameters to produce a data stream that can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer and generate music.

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