Music machine

A method for playing a musical composition, comprising:

• (a) providing a musical device which is an electronic device or a combination of electronic devices and which is equipped with electronic memory and is capable of generating sounds at different fundamental frequencies,
• (b) storing in said musical device an instrument scale, which is a predetermined subset of rational numbers,
• (c) storing in said musical device a harmonic sequence which is a sequence of harmonic tones, where each harmonic tone is a number selected from a range of audible frequencies and assigned to a time interval within the composition, and said time intervals such that all intervals are non-overlapping and span the whole composition in a manner that the start of the first time interval is equal to the start time of the composition, the end of the last time interval coincides with the end time of the composition, and the end of each time interval except the last one coincides with the start of the subsequent time interval,
• (d) storing in said musical device an instrument score which is a sequence of notes, where each note comprising a note frequency and associated note time interval, and where said note frequency is set equal to the product between a harmonic tone selected from said harmonic sequence and a number selected from said instrument scale, and said note time interval is selected such that the start of the interval lies inside the time interval of said harmonic tone,
• (e) generating sounds with said musical device at fundamental frequencies and during time intervals given by respective note frequencies and note time intervals as specified in a sequence of notes selected from said instrument score,
• whereby said musical device will play sounds as specified by said instrument score.