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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eiichiro Aoki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/38 ; G10H 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/38 ; G10H 7/00 ;
Abstract
An automatic music composing apparatus comprises: a memory that stores a plurality of chord-progression data in a specific key; an input device that inputs motif melody data; a selector that selects at least one chord-progression data from the memory; a detector that detects a key of the input motif melody data; a transposer that transposes the selected chord-progression data into the detected key in accordance with relation between the detected key and the specific key; and a melody data generator that generates a melody in the detected key in accordance with the input motif melody data and the transposed chord-progression data.