A singing voice edit assistant method includes: displaying singing waveforms represented by singing waveform data calculated based on score data representing a time series of notes and lyrics data representing words on a display device, on a note-by-note basis on a two-dimensional waveform screen having a pitch axis and a time axis, each singing waveform being displayed at a position located by a pitch and timing of a note corresponding to the singing waveform; and displaying a phoneme of each word at a pronunciation timing of the phoneme on the waveform screen.

An automatic performance system includes a sign detector configured to detect a sign action of a performer performing a musical piece, a performance analyzer configured to sequentially estimates a performance position in the musical piece by analyzing an acoustic signal representing performed sound in parallel with the performance, and a performance controller configured to control an automatic performance device to carry out an automatic performance of the musical piece so that the automatic performance is synchronized with the sign action detected by the sign detector and a progress of the performance position estimated by the performance analyzer.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor configured to sense a motion of a bow to the string instrument, a vibration sensor configured to sense a vibration generated by the string instrument, and a control module configured to determine a fingering position of a user with respect to the string instrument using the motion of the bow and the vibration.

One embodiment provides a system, method, and device for utilizing inaudible tones for music. A song is initiated with enhanced features. A determination is made whether inaudible tones including information or data are associated with a portion of the song. The associated inaudible tone is played. Playback of the song is continued.

A system for music transcription that includes: a musical instrument; a computer; a communication link between the musical instrument and the computer; and software residing on memory within the computer adapted to interpret audio sound from the musical instrument and transcript musical notes onto a visible music scale. The musical notes are transcribed onto a treble clef and a bass clef, where the musical instrument includes at least one of a guitar, keyboard, horn, woodwind or other musical instrument. A tablature may also be provided for a stringed instrument. The communication link includes a microphone on the computer, where the microphone transmits music to a processor for interpretation.

A music performance feedback tool is described herein that enables a musician to play freely and receive feedback in real-time. The tool tracks the musician as they progress through a piece and returns optimal feedback given an input sequence produced by the musician. The tool enables musicians to practice in a fashion that is most natural and pedagogically correct. The tool provides musicians with annotations indicating what notes in the score they failed to play, erroneously added notes, and the like. The tool further provides the musician with tempo and rhythmic feedback.

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 inputted 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 inputted 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 inputted as such, not by indication of their values; all the symbols which consist of elements, which have the values of their own shall be inputted by elements; the note heads, located vertically in different positions on the musical staff shall be considered as independent signs.

An electronic musical score apparatus 1 includes display units D1, D2 connected to each other to be openable and closeable, and can convert a writing made on display portions 11, 12 by a user into annotation data 1, associated with musical score page data but being manageable separately from the musical score page data, and store the annotation data 1. When an image of the associated musical score page data is displayed together with an image of the annotation data 1 on the display portions 11, 12 and then the user rewrites the annotation data 1, the electronic musical score apparatus 1 can provide a write history for the annotation data 1 by storing the annotation data 1 before the rewriting as first-generation annotation data 1 and storing the annotation data 1 after the rewriting as second-generation annotation data 1.

An input support method is provided for use in an input support apparatus that supports input of a music note. The method includes: controlling a display unit to display a pitch-time plane that includes a pitch-axis and a time-axis, a chord sequence that is associated with the time-axis of the pitch-time plane, and a pointer that indicates a position on the time-axis along the chord sequence; identifying constituent music notes that form a chord corresponding to a display position of the pointer along the chord sequence; and controlling the display unit to display areas on the pitch-time plane, each displayed area indicating a corresponding one of the identified constituent music notes, differently from other areas on the pitch-time plane.

Dynamic user-defined stave filters enable users of scorewriter software applications to generate de-condensed musical parts from condensed scores. When a stave filter is applied to some or all of a stave displaying multiple types of musical element, one or more of the musical element types are hidden from view. Stave filters remove from display note and/or non-note element types. Filtered staves are linked to corresponding unfiltered staves such that compositional changes in a condensed score are reflected in the linked de-condensed staves. Uses include generation of individual parts from a score or generation of different orchestrations or arrangements. Filtered staves are drawn in an intelligent fashion to ensure that musical data are displayed in a musically valid form that conforms to stylistic conventions.