Patent ID: 6096961
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G10H,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for reading a requested musical composition from among a plurality of musical compositions using an electronic musical instrument that has a memory storing the plurality of musical compositions, the method comprising the steps of:defining for each of the stored musical compositions an identifying sequence of musical note events which uniquely identifies the musical composition, the musical note events being at least one of a plurality of musical notes, differences in pitch between adjacent musical notes in a series of musical notes, and a beat;storing the identifying sequences in the memory and associating in the memory each of the stored identifying sequences with the corresponding one of the plurality of musical compositions;musically performing on the electronic musical instrument a search sequence of the musical note events which corresponds to at least a recognizable portion of one of the identifying sequences;locating a particular one of the identifying sequences which corresponds to the performed search sequence by comparing the performed search sequence to the identifying sequences stored in the memory; andreading from the memory the musical composition which is uniquely identified by the particular one of the identifying sequences.