Patent ID: 6927331
Filing Date: 2005-08-09
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. Method for the program-controlled visually perceivable representation of a music composition on the display of an electronic device, by means of control electronics with a processor integrated into the device, the method comprising the steps of: reproducing the music composition in a program-controlled manner on the display of the electronic device by a multitude of two-dimensional or three-dimensional color elements which are equal to the number of tones and/or meters of the music composition and which are, in accordance with the tone and/or meter sequence of the music composition, chronologically configured on the display as follows: forming the background of every color element on the display in a basic color which is assigned to the major or minor key of the music tone and/or music meter, which corresponds to the color element, in a color circle of fifths of the basic colors of all major and minor keys each of which has twenty-four colored circular segments of the same size, whereby in the color circle of fifths the keys are—starting from the circular segment lying in its zenith—relating to the twenty-four successive segments in clockwise direction, set as follows: whereby one of twelve basic colors, which are different from one another, of the color circle of fifths is assigned to each of the segments 1 showing on the background of the display, the colored two-dimensional element or colored three-dimensional element assigned to every tone and/or meter of the music composition in the basic color of the color circle of fifths assigned to this tone and/or meter in a color which is selected according to the respective position of the tone and/or meter in the scale of the major or minor key of the music composition from one of the 48 color key scales, which consists, in accordance with the scale consisting of seven tones in each individual case, of always seven colors which are displayed as colored square level-elements, which are always evenly spaced with respect to one another, on the background of a color which is, by the construction of the color circle of fifths, determined for every respective major key and the parallel minor key pertaining to it, whereby the colors of the major and minor color key scales refer always to only one major key with the parallel minor key pertaining to it and where, with regard to the color key scales, the color of the first levels of the respective major key corresponds always to the basic color of the respective major keys, while with regard to the respective parallel minor key the color of the third level corresponds always to the basic color of the respective minor color-shade scale and whereby the seventh level of the respective color scale of the minor keys is always equipped with a frame-like designation the color of which is determined—in accordance with the designation of the sharpening of the seventh level in the harmonic minor scale by an accidental—in the tone sharpening by the color of the next higher level of the tone to be sharpened or with regard to the tone flattening by the color of the next lower level of the tone to be flattened, designating rests in the music composition in the colored two-dimensional element or the colored three-dimensional element by long black symbols; reproducing the length of every tone and/or meter of the music composition in each case as a proportionally long circular segment respectively part of the colored two-dimensional element or the colored three-dimensional element, configured in the assigned color, and providing at least one symbol in every colored two-dimensional element or colored three-dimensional element, which is assigned to a tone and/or meter of the music composition which defines the octave within which the tone is positioned.