Patent ID: 7439438
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: G09B,G10G

Abstract:
1. The invention claimed is an improved musical notation system for recording and representing musical scores, comprising: a staff, or stave, of horizontally arranged pitch stripes of two colors, stacked up together; pitch stripes of one color represent the black keys of the standard piano keyboard; pitch stripes of the other color represent the white keys of the standard piano keyboard; pitch stripes lying in relatively lower positions correspond to the keys lying relatively more towards the left-hand side of the piano keyboard; pitch stripes lying in relatively higher positions correspond to the keys lying relatively more towards the right-hand side of the piano keyboard; the vertical pattern of arrangement from low to high of the pitch stripes of two colors is identical to the horizontal arrangement from left to right of the black and white keys of the standard piano keyboard; the single staff comprises the number of pitch stripes (some may be additionally added short “ledger stripes”) to span all the notes of a line of music; music notes and symbols that are commonly used with the Grand Staff, such as time signatures, barlines, whole notes or semi-breves, half notes or minims, quarter notes or crotchets, eighth notes or quavers, sixteenth notes or semi-quavers, thirty-second notes or demi-semi-quavers, sixty-fourth notes or hemi-demi-semi-quavers, hundred twenty-eighth notes or quasi-hemi-semi-quavers and two hundred fifty-sixth notes, rests, dots, ties, beams, tuplets, signs for tempo, dynamics, mood, articulation (phrasing, slurs, staccato, etc.), reiterations and repeats, expressions, ornaments and embellishments, etc., all as commonly found and described in English dictionaries or encyclopedias published in the United States of America or the United Kingdom; numerical positional noteheads which are constructed by adding numbers used in the numerical notation in the note-heads of the musical notes; key signature marking relative to the musical staff that identifies the root note of the scale of the music score represented (i.e. 1 in the major scales and 6 in minor scales) in terms of pitch names; music scores are produced by marking the aforesaid music notes on the aforesaid staff, positioning the note-heads of the said music notes upon the correct pitch stripes indicating the correct keys on the piano keyboard to be played.