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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2000
Takahiro Kizaki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An electronic musical apparatus stores, in a storage device, plural song data sets, each data set having a song ID and representing tone events in a time progression to constitute a piece of music, and plural performance property data sets, each data set having a property ID and representing tone properties for the musical tones when played back. The song ID's and the property ID's are selectively nominated with correspondence therebetween one after another, and are stored in the storage device to constitute a song chain list representing chained music pieces. In a song chain playback mode, the song chain list is read out to get the song ID's and the property ID's. The song data and the property data are read out according to thus read-out song ID's and property ID's. A tone generator generates musical tones according to the song data and the property data. In a song playback mode, an individual song data set is designated and read out, and such a read-out song data set controls the tone generator to play back the designated music piece.