Patent ID: 7385130

Claim:
A music selecting apparatus for selecting a music piece from a plurality of music pieces in accordance with an input operation, comprising: a first storage device which stores, as data, a degree of chord change for each of the plurality of music pieces; a setting device which sets a sensitivity word for music selection from among a plurality of sensitivity words which are previously determined, in accordance with the input operation; and, a music selector which detects a music piece having a degree of chord change corresponding to the sensitivity word set by said setting device, in accordance with the chord change degree for each of the plurality of music pieces, wherein said music selector includes: a second storage device which stores, as data, a correction value for each of the plurality of sensitivity words; a reading portion which reads, from said second storage device, the correction value corresponding to the sensitivity word set by said setting device; a correction device which corrects the chord change degree for each of the plurality of music pieces in accordance with the correction value read by said reading portion to compute a sensitivity matching degree; and an indicating device which indicates the plurality of music pieces in an order corresponding to the sensitivity matching degree computed for each of the plurality of music pieces by said correction device.