Patent ID: 6831220
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: G10G,G10H

Abstract:
A method for colorizing musical scores having black and white notes into musical scores having colored and patterned notes, comprising;(a) obtaining a first data structure, wherein the first data structure includes a plurality of note fields, each note field containing at least one black and white note; (b) obtaining a second data structure, wherein the second data structure includes a note field containing notes corresponding to notes in the first data structure, a color field having a color corresponding with each note in the note field of the second data structure, and a pattern field having a pattern corresponding with each note in the note field of the second data structure; (c) matching each black and white note in the first data structure with a note from the note field in the second data structure and assigning the color and pattern corresponding with the note to create a plurality of colorized and patterned notes from black and white notes; and (d) creating a third data structure, wherein the third data structure includes a plurality of note fields having the colorized and patterned notes arranged in a musical score wherein the first and the second data structure further includes an octave field having a plurality of octaves, and wherein each note in the first and second data structure is assigned to one of the octaves.