Method and device for automatic music composition employing music template information

An automatic music composing device comprising:

• a memory device having prestored therein a plurality of pieces of music template information for a plurality of music pieces, each of the pieces of music template information for one of the music pieces including at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in each of a plurality of sections forming the music piece;
• a template editing device for, in response to an operation of a user, selecting from said memory device a desired one of the pieces of music template information, storing the selected piece of music template information into a buffer of said editing device, and changing contents of the stored piece of music template information in response to an operation of the user;
• an input device for, in response to an operation of the user, inputting information indicative of a tendency relating to a number of notes for each of the sections of a music piece to be composed;
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• a note determination device for determining a length and pitch of each note to be contained in each of the sections, on the basis of said piece of music template information stored in the buffer of said template editing device and said information indicative of a tendency relating to a number of notes in each of sections inputted by said input device.

An automatic music composing device comprising:

• an input device for inputting syllable information of words to be set to a music piece to be composed, along with information indicative of a division between said syllable information;
• a device for supplying information indicative of musical characteristics of the music piece to be composed;
• a device for, on the basis of said syllable information contained in a section of the words specified by said information indicative of a division, determining a number of notes to be contained in said section and a length of each of the notes;
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• a device for determining a pitch of each of the notes on the basis of the musical characteristics.

An automatic music composing device comprising:

• a memory device having prestored therein a plurality of pieces of music template information for a plurality of music pieces, each of the pieces of music template information for one of the music pieces including at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in each of a plurality of sections forming the music piece and information relating to a number of notes in each of the sections and a position of each of the notes;
• a template editing device for, in response to an operation of an user, selecting from said memory device a desired piece of music template information, storing the selected piece of music template information into a buffer of said editing device, and changing contents of the stored piece of music template information;
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• a music data generation device for determining a position, length and pitch of each said note in each of the sections, on the basis of the piece of music template information stored in the buffer of said template editing device, so as to generate music data.

A method of automatically composing music using a computer comprising the steps of:

• supplying music template information including at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in each of a plurality of sections forming a music piece;
• inputting, in response to an operation of a user, information indicative of a tendency relating to a number of notes in each of sections of a music piece to be composed;
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• determining a length and pitch of each note to be contained in each of the sections, on the basis of said music template information and said information indicative of a tendency relating to a number of notes in each of sections inputted by said input means.

A method of automatically composing music using a computer comprising the steps of:

• analyzing musical characteristics for each of a plurality of sections forming a music piece and, on the basis of the analyzed musical characteristics, supplying music template information including at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in the section and information relating to a number of notes and a position of each said note in the section;
• storing the supplied music template information into a memory, said memory storing a plurality of pieces of the music template information for a plurality of music pieces;
• selecting from the memory a desired piece of the music desired template information in response to an operation of a user;
• editing contents of the selected piece of the music template information in response to an operation of the user;
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• determining a position, length and pitch of each note to be contained in each of the sections, on the basis of the piece of the music template information selected and edited in said steps of selecting and editing, so as to generate music data.

A machine-readable recording medium for use in a data processing system including a CPU, said medium containing program instructions executable by said CPU for causing the data processing system to perform the steps of:

• supplying music template information including at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in each of a plurality of sections forming a music piece;
• inputting, in response to an operation of a user, information indicative of a tendency relating to a number of notes in each of sections of a music piece to be composed;
• and
• determining a length and pitch of each note to be contained in each of the sections, on the basis of said music template information and said information indicative of a tendency relating to a number of notes in each of sections.

A machine-readable medium for use in a data processing system including a CPU, said medium containing program instructions executable by said CPU for causing the data processing system to perform the steps of:

• analyzing musical characteristics for each of a plurality of sections forming a music piece and, on the basis of the analyzed musical characteristics, supplying music template information including at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in the section and information relating to a number of notes and a position of each note in the section;
• storing the supplied music template information into a memory, said memory storing a plurality of pieces of the music template information for a plurality of music pieces;
• selecting from the memory a desired piece of the music template information in response to an operation of a user;
• editing contents of the selected piece of the music template information in response to an operation of the user;
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• determining a position, length and pitch of each note to be contained in each of the sections, on the basis of said music template information selected and edited in said steps of selecting and editing, so as to generate music data.

An automatic music composing device comprising:

• information supply means for supplying information including at least syllable data corresponding to words for a music piece to be composed;
• setting means for setting characteristic data to characterize the music piece to be composed;
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• music piece generation means for generating the music piece corresponding to the words on the basis of said information including the syllable data supplied by said information supply means and said characteristic data set by said setting means.

An automatic music composing device comprising:

• performance data input means for inputting performance data that represents a music piece having a plurality of sections;
• characteristic extraction means for analyzing said performance data for each of the sections so as to extract musical characteristics of the section, said musical characteristics including a pitch variation tendency of said section;
• storage means for storing the musical characteristics of each of the sections extracted by said extraction means, as characteristic data to characterize said music piece;
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• music piece generation means for generating performance data representing a new music piece, on the basis of the characteristic data stored in said storage means, wherein note pitches of said performance data of said new music piece are determined on the basis of at least the pitch variation tendency information included in said characteristic data.