Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2010-07-27
2010-12-28
Enad, Elvin G (Department: 2832)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
active
07858867
ABSTRACT:
Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the like. The set of musical elements is provided to a user for selection of particular musical elements The selected musical elements represent the song model.
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Basu Sumit
Gibson Chad C.
Sherwani Adil Ahmed
Enad Elvin G
Microsoft Corporation
Millikin Andrew R
Senniger Powers LLP
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