Apparatus for automatically composing music piece

• US 4,399,731 A
• Filed: 08/04/1982
• Issued: 08/23/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Aoki, Eiichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jennings, Derek
• Application Number:
  US06/405,144
• Time in Patent Office: 384 Days
• Field of Search: 84/1.01, 84/1.13, 84/3, 84/453, 84/464 R, 84/470 R, 84/471 R, 84/484, 84/DIG. 6, 84/DIG. 23, 84/1.03
• US Class Current: 84/609
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0025 Automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music theory or modifying a musical piece automatically producing a series of tones G10H1/26
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/086 for transcription of raw audio or music data to a displayed or printed staff representation or to displayable MIDI-like note-oriented data, e.g. in pianoroll format
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/111 Automatic composing, i.e. using predefined musical rules
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/115 using a random process to generate a musical note, phrase, sequence or structure using a random process to build a rhythm pattern G10H2210/356; random rhythm pattern selection G10H2210/366
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/366 Random process affecting a selection among a set of pre-established patterns

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.

Claims

1. An apparatus for automatically composing a music piece, comprising:

pitch data memory means storing plural kinds of pitch data representing respective musical note pitches;

extracting means connected to said pitch data memory means for extracting, one after another, pitch data by randomly accessing the stored pitch data;

condition providing means for providing predetermined plural kinds of musical conditions;

judging means supplied with said extracted pitch data and connected to said condition providing means for judging whether each said extracted pitch data satisfies said musical conditions;

deliver-out means connected to said judging means for delivering out, from among said extracted pitch data, only those that satisfy said musical conditions successively in timed sequence; and

duration imparting means connected to said deliver-out means for combining each said delivered pitch data with a duration data representing a musical time length to form successively, in timed sequence, composition data as combined pairs of a pitch data and a duration data, thus a timewise alignment of said composition data constituting a music piece.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

tone forming means supplied with said composition data for forming musical tones each having a pitch and a duration represented by each said composition data.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

display means supplied with said composition data for displaying said music piece in musical notation based on said composition data.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

printer means supplied with said composition data for printing out said music piece in musical notation based on said composition data.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

temporary memory means connected to said deliver-out means and said judging means for temporarily storing a delivered pitch data until the next judgment takes place, and in which said condition providing means provides a musical condition that a pitch data to be delivered out should have a predetermined relation with the pitch data which was delivered out precedingly and is being stored in said temporary memory means.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

composition data memory means for storing the delivered composition data successively; and

a composition read-out means connected to said composition data, memory means for reading out said composition data at a time rate determined by the respective duration data portions of said respective composition data.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, in which:

said duration imparting means comprises;

duration set providing means for providing at least a set of duration data each set being constituted by serially arranged duration data and forming a rhythm pattern; and

combining means for combining the respective ones of said serially arranged duration data with the respective ones of said successively delivered pitch data.

8. An apparatus according to claim 7, in which:

said duration set providing means comprises duration data memory means storing plural kinds of duration data representing respective musical time length; and

duration data read-out means connected to said duration data memory means for reading out, one after another, duration data by randomly accessing the stored duration data.

9. An apparatus according to claim 7, in which:

said duration set providing means comprises rhythm pattern memory means storing plural kinds of rhythm pattern segments of a predetermined same musical time length, each rhythm pattern segment being a timewise alignment of plural duration data; and

pattern read-out means connected to said rhythm pattern memory means for reading out, one after another, rhythm pattern segments by randomly accessing the stored rhythm pattern segments.

10. An apparatus according to claim 1, in which:

said condition providing means includes;

condition selecting means for selectively determining musical conditions to be used for said judgment.

11. An apparatus for automatically composing a music piece, comprising:

pitch data memory means storing plural kinds of pitch data representing respective musical note pitches;

extracting means connected to said pitch data memory means for successively extracting the stored pitch data;

condition providing means for providing predetermined plural kinds of musical conditions;

judging means supplied with said extracted pitch data and connected to said condition providing means for judging whether each said extracted pitch data satisfies said musical conditions;

selected data memory means connected to said judging means for storing all of the pitch data which have satisfied said musical conditions;

deliver-out means connected to said selected data memory means for randomly selecting and delivering out one pitch data from among said all of the pitch data stored,

whereby the above-mentioned functions of the whole means are repeated to deliver out a plurality of said pitch data in a timewisely aligned fashion.

12. A method of automatically composing a music piece, comprising:

a first step of extracting note pitches, one after another, from among note pitches in a musical scale at random selection;

a second step of predetermining musical conditions to be utilized as criteria for selecting note pitches;

a third step of judging, whether each of the extracted note pitches satisfies the predetermined musical conditions;

a fourth step of selecting, from among the extracted note pitches, only those note pitches that have satisfied the musical conditions;

a fifth step of combining each of the selected note pitches with a note duration to make respective pitch/duration pairs; and

a sixth step of aligning said pitch/duration pairs timewisely.

13. A method according to claim 12, in which the musical conditions include a condition that an extracted note pitch should have a predetermined relation swith the precedingly selected note pitch.

14. A method according to claim 12, in which said sixth step includes a first sub-step of storing said pitch/duration pairs and a second sub-step of reading the pitch/duration pairs at real time intervals respectively represented by the respective note durations.

15. A method according to claim 14, which further comprising:

a seventh step of forming, responsive to the read out pitch/duration pairs, musical tones each having a pitch and a duration designated by each of the read out pitch/duration pairs.

16. A method according to claim 12, which further comprising:

a seventh step of providing a plurality of note durations aligned in timewise series to form a rhythm pattern, the respective note durations being combined with the respective selected note pitches to make the respective pitch/duration pairs in said fifth step.

17. A method according to claim 16, in which:

said seventh step includes a first sub-step of providing plural kinds of rhythm pattern segments each constituted by a timewise alignment of plural note durations and a second sub-step of timewisely connecting the rhythm pattern segments selected randomly from among said rhythm pattern segments, thus forming said rhythm pattern.