Music – Accessories – Teaching devices
Reexamination Certificate
2010-01-05
2011-10-18
Enad, Elvin G (Department: 2832)
Music
Accessories
Teaching devices
Reexamination Certificate
active
08039722
ABSTRACT:
A method for visually expressing music includes marking a region of a stave to identify a musical note's pitch, wherein the stave includes four lines each of which is parallel or substantially parallel to the other three lines, and each of which defines at least three regional positions where a mark can be made to identify a musical note's pitch, wherein the stave includes at least twelve regional positions and each of the at least twelve regional positions corresponds to a unique pitch of a musical note within a musical octave. The method also includes marking the region of the stave to also identify the duration of the musical note. With at least twelve regional positions defined by the stave, each of the 12 pitches in an octave can have a position within the stave that uniquely identifies the pitch of the note. Furthermore, the stave can span exactly the twelve pitches in an octave to allow one to quickly identify the pitch of the note being visually expressed without having to memorize each position and its associated pitch in the stave. In addition, each pitch in an octave can be identified by numbers (1-N). Western music using 12 notes would have the following 12 Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
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Enad Elvin G
Horn Robert W
Janeway John
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