Patent ID: 7058428

Claim:
A portable telephone apparatus having a composition capability, comprising: a communication means for receiving a call signal to inform a user of an arrival of a call so that the user can start a conversation; a reproduction means for processing music data in response to the call signal to reproduce a piece of music composed of two or more parts including a melody part and an accompaniment part so as to audibly notify the user of the arrival of the call; a storage means in which accompaniment data representative of two or more different kinds of accompaniment parts are stored, wherein said storage means stores preset accompaniment data and accompaniment data downloaded through said communication means; an input means for inputting score data representative of a desired melody part and for storing the inputted score data into said storage means while inputting style information for specifying a style of an accompaniment part to be combined with the melody part; a composition means for selecting, from said storage means, accompaniment data representative of an accompaniment part fitting to the melody part based on the inputted style information, merging the selected accompaniment data with the score data stored in said storage means to create music data representative of a composed piece of music in two or more parts, and storing the created music data into said storage means, wherein said composition means selects, from among all the accompaniment data including the preset accompaniment data and the downloaded accompaniment data, accompaniment data representative of the accompaniment part fitting to the melody part; and a control means for reading the music data stored in said storage means in response to the call signal to provide the read music data to said reproduction means so that the composed piece of music can be reproduced.