Patent ID: 7220909

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying musical information including a plurality of chords in association with notes displayed along a time axis on a musical staff comprising: a music performance data providing device which provides music performance data containing note data representing notes in progression along a time axis to constitute a musical performance, and chord data representing chords in progression in association with said notes; a first determining device which determines a display length and a display position of each of said chords along the time axis based on said chord data contained in said music performance data; a detecting device which detects an overlap of chords in the direction of the time axis when displayed based on said determined display lengths and said determined display positions of the respective chords along the time axis; a second determining device which determines a vertical display position of a chord of which no overlap with another chord is detected to be at a predetermined standard vertical position in a direction perpendicular to the time axis, and determines a vertical display position of a chord of which an overlap with another chord is detected to be at a vertical position which is vertically apart from said other chord by at least a predetermined gap; and a display device which displays each of the chords at the position in the direction of the time axis as determined by said first determining device and at the vertical position as determined by said second determining device.