Method and device for transforming musical notes

Claim 2

In a device for transforming musical notes wherein the notes of a piece of music are stored in an original music memory means and read out in succession, the improved device for transforming musical notes in further comprising a transforming means for transforming the notes stored in said original music memory means in accordance with prescribed rules.

Claim 3

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 1 wherein said transforming means is further provided with means for storing the transformed notes back in said original music memory means in place of the notes of the original music.

Claim 4

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 1 further comprising a transformed music memory means for storing the notes transformed by said transforming means.

Claim 5

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 1 wherein said original music memory means comprising a memory means for storing a melody and a memory means for storing accompaniment notes, and said transforming means transforming the melody notes in accordance with prescribed rules and transforming the accompaniment notes in accordance with rules.

Claim 6

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 1 wherein said transforming means comprises of a transforming memory means for storing rules for transforming notes and a logical processing unit for reading notes from said original music memory means and transforming said notes to other notes in accordance with the rules for transforming notes stored in said transforming memory means.

Claim 7

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 4 wherein said transforming memory means stores rules for transforming notes such that every key of the standard keyboard is associated with its mirror-symmetric counterpart with respect to a Re key or a Sol # (=La b) key, as the case may be, whereby the basic sequence of notes Do, Re, Mi. Fa, Sol, La. Si is transformed into the counterpart sequence Mi, Re. Do, Si, La, Sol, Fa, and the symbol "sharp " (#) is transformed into the symbol "flat" (b) and vice versa.

Claim 8

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 4 wherein said original music memory means is a read/write memory.

Claim 9

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 4 wherein said transforming memory means is a read-only memory.

Claim 10

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 4 wherein said original music memory means comprises a first memory block for storing melody notes and a second memory block for storing the notes of accompaniment chords, said transforming memory means stores rules for transforming the melody notes stored in said first memory block and the chord notes stored in said second memory block, and said logical processing unit reads the melody notes from said first memory block and transforms said notes to other notes in accordance with the rules for transforming notes stored in said transforming memory means and reads chord notes from said second memory block and transforms said notes to other notes in accordance with the rules for transforming notes stored in said transforming memory means.

Claim 11

A device for transforming musical notes in accordance with claim 8 wherein said transforming memory means comprises a first transforming memory block for storing rules for transforming the melody notes stored in said first memory block uf the original music memory means and a second transforming memory block for storing rules for transforming the chord notes stored in said second memory block of the original music memory means.

Claim 12

In a method for transforming musical notes wherein the notes of a piece of music are stored in a memory device and the stored notes are read out in succession, the improved method for transforming musical notes comprising the steps of reading out the notes stored in said memory, transforming the read-out notes in such manner that with respect to a standard keyboard each note is transformed to its mirror-symmetric counterpart with respect to a Re key or a Sol # (=La b) key, as the case mey be, in such manner that the basic sequence of notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si is transformed to the sequence of counterpart notes Mi, Re, Do, Si, La, Sol, Fa and the symbols " sharp " (#) and "flat" (b) are transformed to the counterpart symbols " flat " (b) and "sharp (#) , and storing the transformed notes in said memory means.

Claim 13

In a method for transforming musical notes wherein the notes of a piece of music are stored in a memory device and the stored notes are read out in succession, the improved method for transforming musical notes comprising the steps of reading out the notes stored in said memory, transforming the read-out notes in such manner that with respect to a standard keyboard each note is transformed to its mirror-symmetric counterpart with respect to a Re key or a Sol # (=La b) key, as the case mey be, in such manner that the basic sequence of notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si is transformed to the sequence of counterpart notes Mi, Re, Do, Si, La, Sol, Fa and the symbols " sharp " (#) and "flat" (b) are transformed to the counterpart symbols " flat " (b) and "sharp (#) , and storing the transformed notes in said memory means.