Provided are a display device and a program which allow a user to intuitively recognize a connection and a breathing timing between respective notes. A CPU (11) generates a guide image, based on information about a sound-producing timing and a sound length of each note, which are included in a guide melody track. The CPU (11) smoothly connects respective notes. Thereafter, the CPU (11) disconnects the notes at the breathing timing indicated in a breath position track.

A method is provided of aligning pitch data with audio data in a computing device, the method comprising the computer implemented steps of compiling a plurality of pitch data related to an audio file, each pitch data including information about at least one distinct pitch which is capable of being used by an electronic device to emulate said pitch, said plurality of pitch data compiled in a chronological order relating to said audio file, and arranging the compiled pitch data with the corresponding audio file containing audio data having at least one chord change, wherein the pitch data is offset from the audio data by a predetermined time margin. Further, an audio file is provided, stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, having pitch data corresponding to and offset from chord changes in audio data by a predetermined time margin advance, and a non-transitory computer readable medium is provided, having stored thereon a set of computer executable instructions.

A musical performance apparatus including at least one processor configured to: determine any phrase as a first phrase that is to be a performance target performed by a user from among a plurality of phrases included in a musical piece, and determine a set of phrases from the first phrase to a second phrase to be phrases that are to be the performance target performed by the user according to operation by the user in order to select the second phrase from the plurality of phrases.

A musical score display control method, device and program which control a processor to acquire performance data being performed, sequentially acquire performance positions of a performance in a musical score data that represent a musical score based on the musical score data and the performance data, and display on a display a predetermined portion of the musical score data according to the current performance position. The processor also controls the display to display a next performance target portion of the musical score data upon determining that the current performance position has advanced beyond a first threshold position from a prior performance position at a point in time prior to the current performance position, and to display a previous performance target portion of the musical score data upon determining that the current performance position has returned beyond a second threshold position from the prior performance position.

A musical score display device and method employing a controller that is configured to control a display to display a musical score and, with the musical score, a first time axis corresponding to a performance of the musical score in which at least one repeat part of the musical score is played during the performance, or a second time axis corresponding to the musical score including at least one repeat sign.

A device is configured to display electronic sheet music. The device may display electronic sheet music that can be magnified and displayed in sequence by reflowing electronic musical symbols between pages. In addition, the device may adaptively determine a layout based on user preferences, such as a desired magnification, an orientation of a device or the like, and may display a current location in the electronic sheet music based on user input, a remote trigger, a desired playback speed or by monitoring an audio input from a microphone and determining a current location in the electronic sheet music. For example, the device may detect a series of pitches and display the electronic sheet music based on a most recent pitch in the series of pitches.

The invention relates to the digital music writing being a digital musical notation symbols input tool. The invention is a keyboard specially dedicated for digital input of musical notation symbols. The keyboard is used for digital input of sheet music. The keyboard can be implemented as a physical device and shaped as combination of images in a touch screen. Every musical notation symbol shall be inputed with the keyboard control element specially dedicated for input of such symbol. Novelty of the invention is that the keyboard is a device specially dedicated for input of musical notation which does not require any accessories; all the musical notation symbols can be inputed using this keyboard only with the combination of two actions: indication of the symbol's location and the symbol itself; all the symbols shall be inputed as such, not by indication of their values; all the symbols which consist of elements, which have the values of their own shall be inputed by elements; the note heads, located vertically in different positions on the musical staff shall be considered as independent signs.

Indicating what should be played in a piece of music with a music document, including: displaying a part of the music document when a user plays the piece; receiving a real-time audio signal of the playing; automatically determining a playing position within the piece of music based on the real-time audio signal; automatically scrolling the music document on a display depending on the playing position; estimating at least the following from the real-time audio signal: activity; tonality; and tempo used in automatically determining the playing position determined from playing speed of the user. The estimating of the activity includes detecting whether the user is producing any sounding notes. The estimating of the tonality is based on an array of chord models that represent different chords that appear in the music document and allow calculating the probability that the corresponding chord is being played in various real-time audio signal segments.

Musical score acquisition section acquires musical score information representing a musical score of a music piece to be practiced by a user. Target portion setting section sets a plurality of portions of the music piece as target portions for training, respectively. Target musical score acquisition section acquires target musical score information indicative of partial musical scores of the respective target portions for training set by the target portion setting section. Display control section controls, on the basis of the target musical score information acquired by the target musical score acquisition section, a display device to display two or more of target musical scores in a side-by-side arrangement. Thus, a user can easily grasp the plurality of target portions for training.

In at least one embodiment, a method of performing automatic transcription of musical content included in an audio signal received by a computing device is provided. The method includes processing, using the computing device, the received audio signal to extract musical information characterizing at least a portion of the musical content and generating, using the computing device, a plurality of musical notations representing alternative musical interpretations of the extracted musical information. The method further includes applying a selected one of the plurality of musical notations for transcribing the musical content of the received audio signal.