Patent ID: 7199299

Claim:
A musical score displaying apparatus comprising: a displayer; a musical score display controller for retrieving musical score information from music data including the musical score information representative of a musical score and character string information representative of a character string and controlling the displayer to display the musical score based on the musical score information; and a character string display controller for retrieving character string information from the music data, controlling the displayer to display a character string represented by the retrieved character string information in associated relation with the displayed musical score in a first display style in a predetermined character string display space when the character string display space has enough space to display the character string on the displayer, and controlling the displayer to display the character string or another character string in a second display style different from the first display style in the predetermined character string display space so as to prevent the character string and said another character string from overlapping each other when the predetermined character string display space does not have enough space to display the character string on the displayer, said another character string being a preceding character string or a subsequent character string.