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Method for the program-controlled visually perceivable representation of a music composition

  • US 20040148575A1
  • Filed: 11/17/2003
  • Published: 07/29/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Method for the program-controlled visually perceivable representation of a music composition, especially a telephone or cell phone ring tone sequence on the display of an electronic device, especially a cell phone, by means of control electronics with a processor integrated into the cell phone, characterized in that. the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence are reproduced in a program-controlled manner on the display of the electronic device by a multitude of two-dimensional or three-dimensional color elements (colored area-elements respectively colored space-elements) which are equal to the number of tones and/or meters of the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence and which are, in accordance with the tone and/or meter sequence of the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence, chronologically configured on the display as follows:

  • The background of every color element on the display is formed in a basic color which is assigned to the major or minor key of the music tone and/or music meter, which corresponds to the color element, in a color circle of fifths of the basic colors of all major and minor keys each of which has twenty-four colored circular segments of the same size, whereby in the color circle of fifths the keys are—

    starting from the circular segment lying in its zenith—

    relating to the twenty-four successive segments in clockwise direction, set as follows;

    C major and A minor 

    1st segmentG major and E minor 

    2nd segmentD major and B minor 

    3rd segmentA major and F sharp minor 

    4th segmentE major and C sharp minor 

    5th segmentB major and G sharp minor 

    6th segmentF sharp major and D sharp minor 

    7th segmentC sharp major and A sharp minor 

    8th segmentG sharp major and E sharp minor 

    9th segmentD sharp major and B sharp minor10th segmentA sharp major and F double-sharp minor11th segmentE sharp major and C double-sharp minor12th segmentB sharp major and G double-sharp minor/13th segmentD double-flat major and BB minorA double-flat major and F flat minor14th segmentE double-flat major and C flat minor15th segmentBB major and G flat minor16th segmentF flat major and D flat minor17th segmentC flat major and A flat minor18th segmentG flat major and E flat minor19th segmentD flat major and B minor20th segmentA flat major and F minor21st segmentE flat major and C minor22nd segmentB major and G minor23rd segmentF major and D minor24th segment
    whereby one of twelve basic colors, which are different from one another, of the color circle of fifths is assigned to each of the segments 1. to 12. and each of the segments 13. to 24., and whereby, for the color circle of fifths, the sequence of the twelve different basic colors assigned to the segments 1. to 12. and the sequence of the twelve different basic colors assigned to the segments 13. to 24. is the same and the sequence of the selected twelve basic colors within the twelve segments of every semi-circle can be varied, the colored two-dimensional area-element respectively colored three-dimensional space-element assigned to every tone and/or meter of the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence is shown on the background of the display in the basic color of the color circle of fifths assigned to this tone and/or meter in a color which is selected according to the respective position of the tone and/or meter in the scale of the major or minor key of the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence from one of the 48 color key scales, which consists, in accordance with the scale consisting of seven tones in each individual case, of always seven colors which are displayed as colored square level-elements, which are always evenly spaced with respect to one another, on the background of a color which is, by the construction of the color circle of fifths, determined for every respective major key and the parallel minor key pertaining to it, whereby the colors of the major and minor color key scales refer always to only one major key with the parallel minor key pertaining to it and where, with regard to the color key scales, the color of the first levels of the respective major key corresponds always to the basic color of the respective major keys, while with regard to the respective parallel minor key the color of the third level corresponds always to the basic color of the respective minor color-shade scale and whereby the seventh level (seventh level-element) of the respective color scale of the minor keys is always equipped with a frame-like designation the color of which is determined—

    in accordance with the designation of the sharpening of the seventh level in the harmonic minor scale by an accidental—

    in the tone sharpening by the color of the next higher level of the tone to be sharpened or with regard to the tone flattening by the color of the next lower level of the tone to be flattened, rests in the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence in the colored two-dimensional area-element respectively the colored three-dimensional space-element are always designated by long black symbols;

    the length of every tone and/or meter of the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence is in each case reproduced as a proportionally long circular segment respectively part of the colored two-dimensional area-element respectively the colored three-dimensional space-element, configured in the assigned color, and in every colored two-dimensional area-element respectively colored three-dimensional space-element, which is assigned to a tone and/or meter of the music composition respectively the ring tone sequence, at least one symbol is provided which defines the octave within which the tone is positioned.

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