Patent ID: 8669456

Claim:
A method of generating a video playback of a digital musical score, the method comprising: for each of a series of landmark elements in the digital musical score: determining a temporal location of audio playback of that landmark element in an audio playback of the digital musical score; generating a video output frame showing a page of the digital musical score rendered in an output page format, wherein the page spans a portion of the digital musical score that includes that landmark element; generating a segment of the video playback of the digital musical score, the segment comprising: a video component including a still sequence of the video output frame having a duration approximately equal to a difference between a temporal location of audio playback of a second landmark element of the series of landmark elements and the temporal location of the first-mentioned landmark element, wherein the second landmark element immediately succeeds the first-mentioned landmark element in the series of landmark elements; and an audio component including an audio rendering of a portion of the digital musical score beginning with an audible musical event associated with the first landmark element, and ending with a last musical element prior to an audible musical event associated with the second landmark element; and generating the video playback of the digital musical score by using a processor to concatenate the segments.