SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MUSIC DISPLAY, COLLABORATION, ANNOTATION, COMPOSITION, AND EDITING

• US 20150095822A1
• Filed: 12/11/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Escoremusic, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Escoremusic, Inc.
• Inventors: Sawruk, Jeremy, Gavin, Ashley, Feis, Steven
• Application Number:
  US14/568,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20150095822A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/00 Means for the representation of music

Abstract

Music Display, Collaboration, Annotation, Composition, and Editing (MDCACE) systems and methods are provided. Elements in music scores are presented as “layers” on user devices which may be manipulated by users as desired. For example, users may elect to hide or show a particular layer, designate a display color for the layer, or configure the access to the layer by users or user groups. Users may also create annotation layers, each with individual annotations such as music symbols or notations, comments, free-drawn graphics, staging directions, or the like Annotations such as staging directions and orchestral cues may also be generated automatically by the system. Real-time collaborations among multiple MDCACE users are promoted by the sharing and synchronization scores, annotations or changes. In addition, master MDCACE users such as conductors may coordinate or control aspects of the presentation of music scores on other user devices.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing, creating, and editing musical score information associated with a document representing a musical score, said method under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions and comprising:

(a) storing a plurality of layers of the musical score information, with at least some of the plurality of layers of musical score information received from one or more users; and

(b) providing, in response to request by a user to display the musical score information, a subset of the plurality of layers of the musical score information based at least in part on an identity of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of layers of the musical score information includes at least a base layer comprising a part of the musical score and an annotation layer comprising one or more annotations applicable to the part layer.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the annotation layer is system-generated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of layers of the musical score information includes at least a layer comprising one or more vocal lines, piano reductions, musical cuts, musical symbols, staging directions, dramatic commentaries, notes, lighting and sound cues, orchestral cues, headings or titles, measure numbers, transpositions, re-orchestrations, or translations.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one layer of the subset of the plurality of layers is associated with one or more access control rules, and wherein providing the subset of the plurality of layers of the musical score information is based at least in part on the one or more access control rules.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more access control rules pertain to read and write permissions regarding the at least one layer.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising causing rendering of some of the subset of the plurality of layers of the musical score information on a device associated with the user based at least in part on a user preference.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein mediation by a server, a peer-to-peer network, or a local area network coordinates simultaneous creation and/or modification of such documents by multiple independent client devices at the same time.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein operational transformations accomplish this mediation.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein a data model used to represent the changesets of these transformations preserves musically semantic information about these transformations.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein such a data model and its associated changesets allows derivation of the state of a document representing a musical score as that document has existed at different points in time, based upon applying incremental changesets or their opposites to the state of the document at some point in time, wherein the opposite of a changeset indicating an addition of some data model is equal to the deletion of that data model, and the opposite of a changeset indication a deletion of some data model is equal to the addition of that data model.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein such derivations allow the user to quickly view different states of the document as it existed at different points in time, and, if desired, to adapt one of these different states as the current state, effectively reverting the document as it had been at that state.

8. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to at least:

(a) provide a user interface configured to display musical score information associated with a music score as a plurality of layers;

(b) display, via the user interface, a subset of the plurality of layers of musical score information based at least in part on a user preference;

(c) receive, via the user interface, a modification to at least one of the subset of the plurality of layers of musical score information; and

(d) display, via the user interface, the modification to at least one of the subset of the plurality of layers of musical score information.

9. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein the user preference indicates whether to show or hide a given layer in the user interface.

10. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein the user preference includes a display color for a given layer or an annotation.

11. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein the modification includes at least one of adding, removing, or editing an annotation.

12. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 11, wherein the annotation includes a comment, a musical notation, a free-drawn graphics object, or a staging direction.

13. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 11, wherein adding the annotation comprises:

(a) receiving, via the user interface, a user-selected music range of music score; and

(b) associating the annotation with the user-selected music range.

14. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein the executable instructions further cause the computer system to enable a user to create, via the user interface, a new layer associated with the music score.

15. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein the user interface is configured to receive user input that is provided via a keyboard, mouse, stylus, finger or gesture.

16. A computer system for facilitating musical collaboration among a plurality of users each operating a computing device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory, including instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the computer system to at least;

(a) receive, from a first user of the plurality of users, an annotation layer comprising one or more annotations associated with a music score and one or more access control rules associated with the annotation layer; and

(b) make the annotation layer available to a second user of the plurality of users based at least in part on the one or more access control rules.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein at least some of the one or more access control rules are configured by the first user.

18. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computer system to receive a modification to the annotation layer from the second user and making the modification available to the first user.

19. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computer system to enable two or more users of the plurality of users to collaborate, in real time, in providing a plurality of annotations to the music score.

20. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computer system to detect a dissonance in the music score.

21. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computer system to generate one or more orchestral cues for the music score.

22. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computer system to enable at least one master user of the plurality of users, operating at least one master device, to control at least partially how the music score is displayed on one or more non-master devices operated respectively by one or more non-master users of the plurality of users.

23. The computer system of claim 22, wherein controlling at least partially how the music score is displayed on the one or more non-master devices operated respectively by the one or more non-master users of the plurality of users includes causing advancement of the music score displayed on the one or more non-master devices.

24. The computer system of claim 23, wherein the advancement of the music score provides a continuous display of the music score.

25. A computer-implemented method for displaying a written representation of music on a user device associated with a user, said method under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions and comprising:

determining a display context associated with the written representation of music; and

rendering a number of elements of the written representation of music on the user device, the number selected based at least in part on the display context.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the written representation of music includes a musical score.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the display context includes at least a zoom level, dimension of the display device, orientation of the display device, or dimension of a display area.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein display context includes at least a number of musical score parts selected for display by the user.

29. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

(a) detecting a change in the display context; and

(b) rendering a different number of musical score elements on the user device, the different number selected based at least in part on the changed display context.