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Apparatus for automatically composing music piece

US4399731A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 4, 1982
Grant dateAug 23, 1983
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Expiry dateAug 4, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H2210/366
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An apparatus for automatically composing a music piece is provided by comprising a memory preliminarily storing plural kinds of pitch data. From this memory, at-random extraction is made of those pitch data agreeing with predetermined music conditions, and they are timewisely successively delivered out to be imparted durations, respectively, to form a composition data consisting of plural sets of pitch data and duration data amounting two to four measures to make a music piece. This composition data may be used for generation of music sounds, and/or display of music score image on a screen of a CRT device, and/or printing-out of a score by a printer, to be utilized in the sound-dictation training and/or performance exercise in providing, for example, musical education.

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