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Automatic composition apparatus and method using rhythm pattern characteristics database and setting composition conditions section by section
Assignee: Yamaha Corp
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Filing: 1999-09-24
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Granted: 2003-06-10
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Expires: 2019-09-24
Abstract
Abstract Automatic composition apparatus and method are provided which are capable of modifying a rhythm pattern to provide a wide variety of rhythm patterns only through simple setting, and a storage medium that accomplishes this function is provided. Characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed are established. Characteristic data that match the established characteristics are retrieved from a rhythm pattern database rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns. One of the rhythm patterns is selected, that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data. Accordingly, different rhythm patterns having the same characteristics can be easily obtained. Further, composition conditions to be applied to a whole piece of music to be composed are established, and the established composition conditions are allocated to each of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music, for example, a passage, a phrase, or a measure, and the composition conditions for the whole piece of music, in other words, distributed among the respective passages, phrases or measures. Therefore, a rhythm pattern having different characteristics may be obtained by changing only the characteristics of the whole piece of music, thus assuring an improved efficiency with which the user operates the apparatus.
Inventors
- 👤 Eiichiro Aoki
- 👤 Toshio Sugiura
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 13:30
CPC Classifications
G; G10; G10H; G10H1/00; G10H1/36; G10H1/40; G10H1/0008; G10H1/0025; G10H2210/00; G10H2210/341; G10H2210/361
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
117 words
An automatic composition apparatus comprising: a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns; a setting device that establishes characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed, respectively, for a plurality of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music to be composed; and a selecting device that retrieves the characteristic data that match the characteristics established by said setting device, from said rhythm pattern database, and selects one of the rhythm patterns that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data, for each sectional element, thereby generating a rhythm pattern of a melody of the piece of music to be composed.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
117 words
An automatic composition apparatus comprising: a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns; a setting device that establishes characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed, respectively, for a plurality of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music to be composed; and a selecting device that retrieves the characteristic data that match the characteristics established by said setting device, from said rhythm pattern database, and selects one of the rhythm patterns that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data, for each sectional element, thereby generating a rhythm pattern of a melody of the piece of music to be composed.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
115 words
An automatic composition apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns comprise at least information indicating a number of tone-generation points of said each rhythm pattern, and, when said setting device changes the number of tone-generation points in the piece of music to be composed, said selecting device selects, from said rhythm pattern database, a rhythm pattern whose number of tone-generation points is equal to that after being changed, and which has characteristic data indicating at least one characteristic other than the number of tone generation points, which data are approximate to those of an original rhythm pattern before said setting device changes the number of tone-generation points.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
121 words
An automatic composition apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of said plurality of rhythm patterns stored in said rhythm pattern database represents a rhythm pattern of one measure, said automatic composition apparatus further comprising: a measure dividing device that divides a measure in question in the piece of music to be composed into a first section associated with a previous measure that immediately precedes the measure in question, and a second section associated with a measure that immediately follows the measure in question, when a single rhythm pattern cannot be allocated to the measure in question in the piece of music, and wherein said selecting device selects different rhythm patterns for said first section and said second section, respectively.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
An automatic composition apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of initial tone length, syncopation, bounce, sense of ending, and complexity.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
108 words
An automatic composition method comprising the steps of: providing a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns; establishing characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed, respectively, for a plurality of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music to be composed; retrieving the characteristic data that match the established characteristics from said rhythm pattern database; and selecting one of the rhythm patterns that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data, for each sectional element, thereby generating a rhythm pattern of a melody of the piece of music to be composed.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
108 words
An automatic composition method comprising the steps of: providing a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns; establishing characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed, respectively, for a plurality of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music to be composed; retrieving the characteristic data that match the established characteristics from said rhythm pattern database; and selecting one of the rhythm patterns that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data, for each sectional element, thereby generating a rhythm pattern of a melody of the piece of music to be composed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
28 words
An automatic composition method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of initial tone length, syncopation, bounce, sense of ending, and complexity.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
119 words
A storage medium storing program that is executable by a computer, comprising: a setting module that establishes characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed, respectively, for a plurality of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music to be composed; and a selecting module that retrieves characteristic data that match the characteristics established by said setting module, from a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns, and selects one of the rhythm patterns that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data, for each sectional element, thereby generating a rhythm pattern of a melody of the piece of music to be composed.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
119 words
A storage medium storing program that is executable by a computer, comprising: a setting module that establishes characteristics of a rhythm pattern of a piece of music to be composed, respectively, for a plurality of sectional elements that constitute the piece of music to be composed; and a selecting module that retrieves characteristic data that match the characteristics established by said setting module, from a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of the rhythm patterns, and selects one of the rhythm patterns that corresponds to the retrieved characteristic data, for each sectional element, thereby generating a rhythm pattern of a melody of the piece of music to be composed.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
29 words
A storage medium storing program as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of initial tone length, syncopation, bounce, sense of ending, and complexity.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
122 words
An automatic composition apparatus comprising: a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns, and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of said rhythm patterns; an attaching device that attaches a rhythm pattern to a piece of music to be composed; and a determining device that sequentially compares the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music with each of the rhythm patterns in the rhythm pattern database, reads out, when the rhythm patterns thus compared coincide with each other, characteristic data corresponding to the rhythm pattern in the rhythm pattern database, from the rhythm pattern database, and determines the read out characteristic data as characteristic data of the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
122 words
An automatic composition apparatus comprising: a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns, and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of said rhythm patterns; an attaching device that attaches a rhythm pattern to a piece of music to be composed; and a determining device that sequentially compares the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music with each of the rhythm patterns in the rhythm pattern database, reads out, when the rhythm patterns thus compared coincide with each other, characteristic data corresponding to the rhythm pattern in the rhythm pattern database, from the rhythm pattern database, and determines the read out characteristic data as characteristic data of the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
28 words
An automatic composition apparatus as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of initial tone length, syncopation, bounce, sense of ending, and complexity.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
117 words
An automatic composition method comprising the steps of: providing a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns, and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of said rhythm patterns; attaching a rhythm pattern to a piece of music to be composed; sequentially comparing the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music with each of the rhythm patterns in the rhythm pattern database, reading out, when the rhythm patterns thus compared coincide with each other, characteristic data corresponding to the rhythm pattern in the rhythm pattern database, from the rhythm pattern database; and determining the read out characteristic data as characteristic data of the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
117 words
An automatic composition method comprising the steps of: providing a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns, and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of said rhythm patterns; attaching a rhythm pattern to a piece of music to be composed; sequentially comparing the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music with each of the rhythm patterns in the rhythm pattern database, reading out, when the rhythm patterns thus compared coincide with each other, characteristic data corresponding to the rhythm pattern in the rhythm pattern database, from the rhythm pattern database; and determining the read out characteristic data as characteristic data of the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
28 words
An automatic composition method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of initial tone length, syncopation, bounce, sense of ending, and complexity.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
113 words
A storage medium storing program that is executable by a computer, comprising: a determining module that searches a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns, and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of said rhythm patterns, so as to sequentially compare the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music with each of the rhythm patterns in the rhythm pattern database, read out, when the rhythm patterns thus compared coincide with each other, characteristic data corresponding to the rhythm pattern in the rhythm pattern database, from the rhythm pattern database, and determines characteristic data as characteristic data of the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
113 words
A storage medium storing program that is executable by a computer, comprising: a determining module that searches a rhythm pattern database comprising a plurality of rhythm patterns, and characteristic data indicating characteristics of each of said rhythm patterns, so as to sequentially compare the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music with each of the rhythm patterns in the rhythm pattern database, read out, when the rhythm patterns thus compared coincide with each other, characteristic data corresponding to the rhythm pattern in the rhythm pattern database, from the rhythm pattern database, and determines characteristic data as characteristic data of the rhythm pattern to be attached to the piece of music.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
29 words
A storage medium storing program as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of initial tone length, syncopation, bounce, sense of ending, and complexity.
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