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US 6,162,982 AGranted

Automatic composition apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor

AssigneeYamaha Corporation

InventorEiichiro Aoki

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There are provided an automatic composition apparatus and a method for automatically composing a piece of music, which enable a user to generate a large number of melodies having different atmospheres using a reduced number of melody generating templates, and a storage medium storing a program for executing the method. A plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music are supplied to generate melodies of the pieces of music. A plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music are supplied to generate melodies of the pieces of music. A piece-of-music-independent template is selected from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates. A piece-of-music-dependent template is selected from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates. A melody of a piece of music is generated based on information contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and piece-of-music-dependent template.

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Claim 1An automatic composition apparatus · 122 words2 dependent Claim 4An automatic composition apparatus · 219 words3 dependent Claim 8An automatic composition apparatus · 284 words2 dependent Claim 11An automatic composition apparatus · 257 words2 dependent Claim 14An automatic composition apparatus · 360 words3 dependent Claim 18An automatic composition apparatus · 309 words2 dependent Claim 21A method of automatically composing a piece of music · 103 wordsNo dependents Claim 22A method of automatically composing a piece of music · 194 wordsNo dependents Claim 23A method of automatically composing a piece of music · 250 wordsNo dependents Claim 24A method of automatically composing a piece of music · 232 wordsNo dependents Claim 25A method of automatically composing a piece of music · 327 wordsNo dependents Claim 26A method of automatically composing a piece of music · 275 wordsNo dependents Claim 27A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music · 119 wordsNo dependents Claim 28A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music · 210 wordsNo dependents Claim 29A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music · 267 wordsNo dependents Claim 30A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music · 248 wordsNo dependents Claim 31A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music · 343 wordsNo dependents Claim 32A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music · 291 wordsNo dependents

An automatic composition apparatus comprising:

a piece-of-music-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
and
a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music based on information contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and piece-of-music-dependent template.

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An automatic composition apparatus comprising:

a piece-of-music-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
a rhythm generating device that generates a rhythm of a piece of music based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
and
a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point of the generated rhythm, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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An automatic composition apparatus comprising:

a piece-of-music-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
a rhythm generating device that generates a rhythm of a piece of music based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
a skeleton pitch generating device that generates skeleton pitches of a piece of music by operation based on the structure and chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
an allocating device that allocates the generated skeleton pitches to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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An automatic composition apparatus comprising:

a piece-of-music-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures, chord progressions and skeleton pitches of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
a rhythm generating device that generates a rhythm of a piece of music based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
an allocating device that allocates the skeleton pitches contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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An automatic composition apparatus comprising:

a piece-of-music-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, and skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer among skeleton pitches of a plurality of layers that constitute a piece of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
a rhythm generating device that generates a rhythm of a piece of music based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
a skeleton pitch generating device that generates skeleton pitches of at least one lower layer of a piece of music by operation based on the structure and chord progression of a piece of music, and the skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
an allocating device that allocates the skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template and the generated skeleton pitches of at least one lower layer of a piece of music, to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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An automatic composition apparatus comprising:

a piece-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, and common skeleton pitches independent of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
a rhythm generating device that generates a rhythm of a piece of music based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
a skeleton pitch generating device that generates skeleton pitches matching a piece of music to be generated by operation based on the common skeleton pitches contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
an allocating device that allocates the generated skeleton pitches to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A method of automatically composing a piece of music, comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, to generate a melody of a piece of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music based on the information contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A method of automatically composing a piece of music, comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point of the generated rhythm, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A method of automatically composing a piece of music, comprising steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
generating skeleton pitches of a piece of music by operation based on the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating the generated skeleton pitches to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A method of automatically composing a piece of music, comprising steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures, chord progressions and skeleton pitches of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating skeleton pitches of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template, to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A method of automatically composing a piece of music, comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, and skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer among skeleton pitches of a plurality of layers that constitute a piece of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
generating skeleton pitches of at least one lower layer of a piece of music by operation based on the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music and the skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating the skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template and the generated skeleton pitches of at least one lower layer of a piece of music, to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A method of automatically composing a piece of music, comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music and common skeleton pitches independent of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
generating skeleton pitches matching a piece of music to be generated by operation based on the common skeleton pitches contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating the generated skeleton pitches to important tone-generation point of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music, the method comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, to generate a melody of a piece of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music based on the information contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music, the method comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point of the generated rhythm, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music, the method comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
generating skeleton pitches of a piece of music by operation based on the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating the generated skeleton pitches to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music, which comprises the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures, chord progressions and skeleton pitches of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating skeleton pitches of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template, to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music, the method comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, and skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer among skeleton pitches of a plurality of layers that constitute a piece of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
generating skeleton pitches of at least one lower layer of a piece of music by operation based on the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music and the skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating the skeleton pitches of at least one higher layer of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template and the generated skeleton pitches of at least one lower layer of a piece of music, to important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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A machine readable storage medium storing a command for causing a machine to execute a method of automatically composing a piece of music, the method comprising the steps of:

supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, including rhythm characteristics and pitch characteristics of the pieces of music and common skeleton pitches independent of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
supplying a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, including structures and chord progressions of the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music;
selecting a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates;
selecting a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates;
generating a rhythm of a piece of music, based on the rhythm characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
generating skeleton pitches matching a piece of music to be generated by operation based on the common skeleton pitches contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template;
allocating the generated skeleton pitches to important tone-generation point of the generated rhythm;
and
generating a melody of a piece of music by generating a pitch for each tone-generation point other than the allocated important tone-generation points of the generated rhythm to which the generated skeleton pitches were allocated, based on the pitch characteristic of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and the structure and the chord progression of a piece of music contained in the selected piece-of-music-dependent template.

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Facts

Application: 09/491,432Filed 26 Jan 2000
Priority: JP 11-02305129 Jan 1999
Granted: 19 Dec 2000
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G10H 1/0025
Associated control or indicating means: automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music…
G10H 2210/111
Music Composition or musical creation; Tools or processes therefor: automatic composing, i.e. using predefined musical rules
G10H 2210/145
Music Composition or musical creation; Tools or processes therefor: composing rules, e.g. harmonic or musical rules, for use in automatic…
G10H 2210/151
Music Composition or musical creation; Tools or processes therefor: using templates, i.e. incomplete musical sections, as a basis for composing

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