Patent ID: 6294720
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G10H,Y10S

Abstract:
A musical apparatus for creating a melody by extracting characteristic features of a given melody motif, the apparatus comprising:a melody motif supplier which supplies a motif melody piece;a melody analyzer which analyzes said supplied motif melody piece to extract pitch characteristics and a rhythm pattern of said supplied motif melody piece, said extracted rhythm pattern consisting of a series of rhythmic alignment of note time points including skeleton note time points having primary importance in view of rhythm beats and non-skeleton note time points having secondary importance in view of rhythm beats;a pitch imparter which imparts note pitches to said skeleton note time points in said extracted rhythm pattern, respectively, according to said extracted pitch characteristics to make pitch imparted skeleton notes, and imparts note pitches to said non-skeleton note time points in said extracted rhythm pattern, respectively, according to musical grammar making reference to the pitch imparted skeleton notes to make pitch imparted non-skeleton notes; anda melody producer which combines said pitch imparted skeleton notes and said pitch imparted non-skeleton notes to produce a length of melody.