Patent ID: 7199298

Claim:
A music score display controlling apparatus for composing music score display data according to music performance data, the apparatus comprising: a music data providing unit which provides music data representing a music performance; a musical skill level input unit for inputting a user's musical skill level; and a music score display data composing unit which composes music score display data based on said provided music data to display a music score representing said music performance, said music score display data containing data for exhibiting musical signs and indications of music score item categories which meet said user's musical skill level when included in said displayed music score, wherein said music score display data composing unit includes a music score item determining unit which selectively determines said music score item categories of musical signs and indications to be exhibited on a displayed music score according to said inputted user's musical skill level, and controls said music score display data composing unit to compose said music score display data containing data for exhibiting musical signs and indications of said determined music score item categories which meet said user's musical skill level when the music score is displayed.