Patent ID: 6756533
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
An automatic music composing apparatus that automatically creates musical compositions to be reproduced as a background for images, comprising:a bar number calculating device that calculates a number of bars of a musical composition that corresponds to a time period required by each of sections of images; a bar number-corresponding data acquiring device that acquires bar number-corresponding data necessary to generate a melody of the musical composition and corresponding to a number of bars obtained by subtracting a number of bars of at least one of intro bar, interlude, bar, and ending from the calculated number of bars; an accompaniment generating device that generates an accompaniment of the musical composition including at least one of intro, interlude, and ending; a melody generating device that generates the melody of the musical composition based on the acquired bar number-corresponding data; and an output device that outputs the musical composition which is a combination of the generated melody and the generated accompaniment according to each of the sections of the images.