Patent ID: 7696426
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically composing a new musical work based upon a plurality of existing musical work segments using a programmed linear retrograde recombinant musical composition algorithm that is executed by one of a processor and a circuit and contains memory that includes a musical database therein comprising the steps of: providing the plurality of existing musical work segments in the musical database, each of the existing musical work segments including pitch, duration, and on-time, each of the plurality of existing musical work segments further including a destination note information that is used by the programmed linear retrograde recombinant musical composition algorithm that is executed by one of the processor and the circuit to determine a correspondence with others of the plurality of existing musical work segments; automatically selecting a final cadence segment of the new musical work from the plurality of existing musical work segments from the musical database using the programmed linear retrograde recombinant musical composition algorithm that is executed by one of the processor and the circuit; and automatically and sequentially selecting using the programmed linear retrograde recombinant musical composition algorithm that is executed by one of the processor and the circuit, in a retrograde manner, a plurality of musical work segments from the plurality of existing musical work segments such that, for each sequentially selected segment, a last beat of the selected segment corresponds to the destination note information of a previously selected segment, wherein the final cadence segment is an initial previously selected segment.