JP3271332B2 - Chording device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a music apparatus, and more particularly, to a chording apparatus for adding a chord to a given melody.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A chording device for adding a chord to a melody is already known. In a conventional chording device, a chord length assigned to each part of a given melody is set to one bar or half a bar. , Splitting the melody into equal length intervals, assuming that they are all equal, and
One code is determined and assigned to each section. The chord is determined by the pitch content of the melody of the section,
This is performed based on a code determination algorithm that takes into account the code and the like assigned to the previous section.

[0003]

As a result, the sequence of generated codes (chord progression) has a peculiar habit peculiar to the code determination algorithm, and causes unnaturalness. Also, when the accompaniment is performed, the chord (harmony) changes at regular intervals, which makes the sound monotonous. Therefore, the purpose of this invention is
An object of the present invention is to provide a chording device capable of giving a natural and realistic chord progression to a given melody. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a chord adding device capable of assigning chords to chords in units of chord patterns instead of chords to melody one by one.

[0004]

According to the present invention, a series of
Melody adding means for adding a melody consisting of a series of notes , and (B) inspecting each note constituting the melody,
Specific note detection means for detecting whether a fixed note exists
And (C) the identification detected by the specific note detection means.
Based on the note's position on the melody, the melody is duplicated.
And Merodei dividing means for dividing the number of passages, (D) and the chord progression database for storing a database of chord progression for each passage divided (E), matching the chord progression by searching the chord progression database means And a chord progression allocating means for allocating a chord. According to this configuration, the specific note
By the action of the detecting means and the melody dividing means, the melody is divided into musical passages which are musically a unit. On the other hand, the chord progression database means stores a chord progression (code pattern) database. Then, a chord progression suitable for each passage is retrieved from the chord progression database and assigned by the chord progression assigning means. Therefore, a natural and realistic chord progression can be added to the melody. The specific note detecting means is for
Of a series of note strings constituting the melody
A means to detect whether there is a passage end note from inside
May be included. Further, the specific note detecting means includes a specific note
At the beginning of the melody, a length of at least half a bar
For detecting whether or not there is a rest. The chord progression allocating means includes: (A) a melody pattern rule base storage means for storing a melody pattern rule base; (B) a chord progression search means for searching a chord progression from the chord progression database means; A phrase analyzing means for analyzing a phrase based on the chord progression obtained, and (D) a fitness evaluation for evaluating the relevance of the chord progression obtained by retrieving the analysis result of the phrase by the rule base of the melody pattern data to the phrase. Means may be included. Further, the chord progression assigning means may include means for generating a plurality of chord progression candidates for each passage. This offers various arrangements for the melody. For example, each time an automatic arrangement is performed (a melody accompanied by an accompaniment using chord progression), the user can enjoy various arrangement performances by selecting different candidates as chord progressions of a section and performing the performance. Also,
The chord progression assigning means may include means for combining a plurality of chord progressions stored in the chord progression database means to generate a chord progression of a passage. This means provides a database expansion function for apparently expanding the chord progression database.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a music device (device with chords) according to the present invention. 2 represents a given melody. The melody dividing section 4 divides the given melody 2 into a plurality of divided melodies (sections), such as passages 1 to n indicated by reference numeral 6. The tonality analyzer 8 determines the key of each passage. Elements 4 to 8 provide a melody analyzer. The overall purpose of the music device shown in FIG.
To give chords (chord progression) to a given melody.

According to the features of this embodiment, the music apparatus assigns and determines a chord progression suitable for each passage in units of passages, instead of attaching a chord to each part of the given melody 2 one by one. I do. For this, a chord progression database (CPDB) 12 is provided. The chord progression database stores a database of chord progressions for various music styles. Reference numeral 10 denotes a designated music style (rhythm style). The attribute test unit 14
A chord progression (CP) matching the designated rhythm style and the length of the passage is searched from the CPDB 12. CPD
All chord progressions stored in B12 are written in a standard key. Then, the transposition unit 16 transposes the searched chord progression to the key of the passage given from the tonality analysis unit 8.

The motion classification unit 18 and the sound type classification unit 20 assign meaning to each note of the divided melody (section). The motion classifying unit 18 classifies motion between notes according to the magnitude of a pitch difference (pitch) between adjacent notes. The tone type classification unit 20 calculates the tone of the phrase given from the tonality analysis unit 8 and the C
Based on information on chord progressions (candidates for chord progressions in a passage) retrieved from the PDB 12, the sound types of each note in the passage are classified.

[0008] Melody pattern rule base (MPR
B) 22 stores a rule base of a melody pattern used in each music style. Matching unit 24
Receives the classification data of each note given from the motion classification unit 18 and the sound type classification unit 20, and checks whether the classification data follows the melody pattern of the designated style 10. For this purpose, the matching unit 24
The melody pattern of the designated rhythm style 10 is searched from B22, and the melody pattern is compared with the classification data. As a result of the matching, the notes of the passage according to the rules of the melody pattern are labeled with pattern matching.

The classification of sound types by the sound type classification unit 20 depends on the chord progression searched. Therefore, if the chord progression does not match the passage, many notes do not follow the rules of the melody pattern. In other words, the percentage of notes labeled as pattern-matched is a measure of CP suitability that indicates how well the retrieved chord progression matches a passage. Similarly, the result of the tone classification unit 20 also depends on the key of the passage determined by the tonality analysis unit 8. That is,
If the key determined by the tonality analysis unit 8 is incorrect, the proportion of notes labeled with a pattern match decreases.

Therefore, it is preferable that the tonality analysis unit 8 can determine a plurality of keys as candidates for a passage key in consideration of a plurality of possible keys that the passage can take. Based on the result of the matching unit 24, the fitness evaluation unit 26 calculates the ratio of notes with a pattern matching label in the notes of the passage to evaluate the fitness of the chord progression.

The deciding section 28 decides the chord progression having the highest matching degree among the chord progressions retrieved from the CPDB 12 as the chord progression of the phrase. Reference numeral 30 indicates the determined chord progression. “Determined CP1” indicates the chord progression of “Phrase 1”,..., “Decision CPn” indicates the chord progression of “Phrase n”. As can be seen from the above description, the melody dividing section 4 enables detection of modulation included in the melody in combination with the tonality analysis section 8 of the passage.

Further, by allocating the chord progression (semantically grouped chord patterns) from the CPDB 12 to each passage which is the result of the melody dividing section 4, one chord is allocated to each section of the melody as in the prior art. It is possible to add chords that cannot be obtained by the system.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a hardware configuration of a music apparatus (here, constituting an electronic keyboard instrument) according to the embodiment. The CPU 40 operates according to the program stored in the program ROM 50 to control the entire system. The keyboard 60 has a configuration similar to that of a keyboard used for a normal electronic keyboard instrument, and is used for playing music. The operation panel 70 includes a rhythm selection key 71 for specifying a rhythm (accompaniment) style, a tempo volume 72 for specifying a performance speed, a fill-in key 73 for specifying and inputting a melody division position, and a melody to be played on the keyboard 60. Record key 74 for requesting that the recorded melody be recorded on the music device, a stop key 75 for instructing the end of the recording, an arrangement key 76 for requesting the arrangement (with chords and accompaniment) of the recorded melody, and playing the arranged melody. Play key 77 for instructing stop, stop key 78 for instructing stop of performance,
In addition, keys and switches necessary for operating the music device are provided.

The data ROM 80 includes a tone coupling degree table 81 used for tonality determination, a chord progression database (CPDB) 82 used for chording, and a standard pitch class set (PCS) memory 8 for chords and tensions.
3. Melody pattern rule base (MPRB) 84,
A rhythm data memory 85 for storing rhythm patterns of various styles, an accompaniment pattern data memory 86 for storing accompaniment patterns of various styles, and other required fixed data are stored.

The RAM 90 stores an input melody memory 9 for storing a melody played on the keyboard 60 (input melody).
1. A quantized melody memory 92 for storing a quantized melody obtained by quantizing (note-converting) an input melody, a combined histogram memory 93 of musical notes of a divided melody (section), and a key entry for storing a main tone candidate of each section. Table 9
4. Classification data memory 9 for storing phrase classification data
5. CP conformity memory 9 for storing the conformity of chord progression
6. Includes a CP entry table 97 that stores chord progression candidates for each passage.

The display device 100 includes a group of LEDs arranged on an operation panel and a liquid crystal panel. Sound source 110 is CPU4
A tone signal is generated under the control of 0. The sound system 120 includes an amplifier and a speaker, and outputs a tone signal to the outside.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a routine for recording a melody played from the keyboard 60 in real time in the input melody memory 91 of the RAM 90. FIG. 4 shows the recording format of the melody data. As shown in the figure, one melody data is composed of a time byte T and a command byte CD.
Consists of bytes. The time byte T stores the time difference between events. The command byte CD stores the event. Events include key presses (note on) by keyboard operation
Event, key release (note off) event, fill-in event by operating the fill-in key 73 (CD = F0),
Time over event due to time over (F
E), end event (F
F). Of the note-on and off event bytes, the lower 5 bits represent a note number (pitch).
Bit 6 is "0", and the MSB is "0" for an ON event and "1" for an OFF event.

The fill-in key 73 is used by a player to input an instruction on a melody division position (in an arrangement performance, a fill-in performance is used). When the melody recording key 74 is pressed, the CPU 40
Executes a real-time melody recording routine shown in FIG. In the initialization R1, the area of the input melody memory 91 is changed to RA
Allocated on M90 and clears the length counter LENGTH. Next, the rhythm is started at R2. As a result, the rhythm of the designated style is played through the rhythm pattern data memory 84 and the sound source 110 by a rhythm performance routine (not shown). The melody player plays the melody in accordance with such a rhythm.

The states of the keyboard 60, the fill-in key 73, and the stop key 75 are read by the key scanning R3. After the measurement unit time (music resolution time that depends on the tempo) has elapsed (R
5) Check whether the fill-in key 73 has been pressed in R20, and if pressed, write the fill-in data indicated by R21 to R23 (length LENGT to time byte T)
H, writing a fill-in flag in the command byte CD, and clearing the length counter LENGTH).

Subsequently, the presence or absence of a change in the key state is checked at R6. If the key state has changed, the time byte T has the length LE
NGTH is written (R7), and it is checked whether the key is pressed or released (R8). If the key is pressed, a note-on flag is written in the command byte CD (R10). If the key is released, a note-off flag is written in the command byte CD (R9).
Then, a note number relating to key press or key release is written in the command byte CD (R11), and the length counter LENGTH is cleared (R12). After that, the process returns to the key scan R3 which is an entry of the elapse waiting loop R3 to R5 of the measurement unit time.

If there is no change in the key state, it is checked whether LENGTH has reached 255 (FF). If it has not reached 255, the length counter LENGTH is incremented (R14) and the process returns to the key scan R3. If it has reached, write 255 to the time byte T (R15) and write the time-over flag to the command byte CD (R15).
16) Clear LENGTH (R17) and return to key scan R3.

When the melody performance is completed, the player presses the stop key 75. This is detected at R4. On the other hand, LENGTH is written in the time byte T (R1
8) The end flag is written in the command byte CD (R19), and the recording process of the real-time melody is completed. Thus, the melody played on the keyboard 60 is recorded in the input melody memory 91.

Next, when the arrange key 76 is operated, an arrangement process for the melody stored in the input melody memory 91 is executed. As preprocessing of the arrangement processing, the input melody is quantized (note-converted) and transferred to the quantization melody memory 92 as a quantization melody.

FIG. 5 shows the format of the quantization melody memory 92. As shown, the quantization melody memory 9
In one, one note record is a pitch class byte,
It consists of 4 bytes: length byte, pitch byte, and flag byte. Pitch class bytes are usually notes
(Any one of C to B is represented by 00 to CB). A pitch class byte of value 0F represents a rest. A pitch class byte of value 0E represents a tie. The length byte indicates the length of a note (quantized note length).
The pitch byte indicates the pitch of the note. The flag byte is
This is used as a flag indicating fill-in or the end of a passage.
80 for fill-in only, 0 for end of passage
The value is 1, when there is both, 81, and when there is neither, the value is 80. When the quantization process is completed, information excluding the phrase end flag is stored in the quantization melody memory 92. The phrase end flag is written in a melody division process described later. A section melody (section) from a section end flag to the next section end flag represents a melody.

After the quantization process, a tonality determination process is performed on the entire melody. 6 to 8 show the flow of the tonality determination processing routine. In the tonality determination processing, a motion formed between each note of the melody and the surrounding notes is analyzed, and a plurality of tonic candidates are generated based on the analysis result. For the analysis of the motion, a coupling degree table 81 as shown in FIG. 9 is used. The coupling degree table 81 stores the coupling degree between two adjacent sounds as a function of a pitch difference (pitch) formed between the two sounds.

In the initialization D1 of the tonality determination processing routine, the head (first note record) of the quantization melody is located, and the key entry 94 is cleared. The pitch of the current note and the preceding and following notes are read at D2, the pitch LEN of the current note is read at D3, and the pitch class PC of the current note is read at D4. And
At D5, the pitch difference (previous pitch) f between the previous note and the current note is calculated, and at D6, the pitch difference (post-pitch) t between the current note and the next note is calculated. Then, at D7, the coupling degree table 81 is looked up based on the front pitch f and the rear pitch t, and the front coupling JOIN is performed.
T (f) and the post-coupling degree 1 / JOINT (t) are obtained, and using the duration data LEN, the coupling degree CPL of the current note is obtained.
The calculated at CPL = LEN × JOINT (f) / JOINT (t). And this binding of E, elements W (P for pitch class of the current note in histo gram memory 93
Add to C). The above processing is repeatedly executed for all the notes of the melody (D8, D9). As a result,
The binding histoplasmosis grayed Ramumemori 93, accumulated value of the connection degree for each pitch class Merodei are stored.

Next, utilizing conjugation histoplasmosis grayed Ramumemori 93, determines the first tonic candidate Merodei (D10～
D15). First, in D10, the tonic pitch class counter i and the maximum value max are initialized to "0". The evaluation value point diatonic scale when the tonic (the tonic) and pitch class i in D11 is calculated by using the binding histo grayed Ramumemori 93 as shown in the following equation. This evaluation value is calculated for all tonics of pitch class i (D15, D16). The pitch class i giving the highest evaluation value is stored in the key entry 94 as the first key note key of the melody (D1
2, D13). The maximum evaluation value max is also stored (D14).

Next, in D17 to D24, the second, third,... Principal note candidate key keys are also assigned to the pitch classes for which the evaluation value of 90% or more of the maximum evaluation value max is given.
[J] is stored in the key entry 94. The result of the tonality determination process for the entire melody is used for the tonality determination of the first and last phrases in the later-described phrase tonality determination process. Note that the tonality determination processing for the entire melody is a pre-process of the tonality determination processing for the passage, and can be omitted if desired. After the tonality determination processing for the entire melody is completed, a melody division processing for dividing the melody into phrases is performed.

FIG. 10 shows the flow of the melody dividing process. This melody division processing routine includes (A) a function for checking whether a melody starts with an autoact, (B) a function for detecting a melody portion of four measures as a phrase, and (C) a phrase end note from a melody. (D) A function to detect (cadence notes), (D) a function to interpret a fill-in flag as a division point of a passage,
It has.

For example, a G note indicated by an arrow 151 in the melody of the musical example (A) in FIG. 11 is detected as an aftertact note. As a result, the bar 1 next to the note of G
52 is a division point between the first passage and the second passage. Further, in the musical example (B), a note C indicated by an arrow 153 and a note A indicated by an arrow 155 are respectively detected as cadence notes. As a result, the next bar line 154 of the cadence note C becomes a dividing point between the first and second passages, and the next bar line 156 of the cadence note A becomes a dividing point between the second and third passages. In other words, the first bar is the first bar,
The second and third measures are the second measure, and the fourth and subsequent measures are the third measure. In the case of the musical example (C), a melody part having a length of four measures is detected, and the measure line 157 is a division point between the first and second measures.

The details of the melody dividing processing routine will be described. First, the head of the quantized melody is located at initialization E1. Next, it is determined at E2 whether the melody starts with an afteract. This is determined by the length of the rest at the beginning of the melody. That is, if the leading rest is more than half of one measure, the first measure is divided as the first phrase as an afteract melody (E9, E10).

At E3, the phrase length counter all-len
Is initialized to “0”, and entries E4 of loops E4 to E8 are initialized.
The note length is read with, and it is added to all-len at E5. If the note is not the first note (E6), at E7 al
It is determined whether l-len has exceeded four measures. If it exceeds 4 measures, at E21, p-len = 4,
Set 4 bars as the length of the passage. In E8, it is determined whether or not it is a cadence note. Note length (here,
The length from one note to the next. Therefore, when a rest comes after a note, the rest length is also added. ) Is 3/4 or more of one measure, it is determined to be a cadence note. E10 following cadence note detection
In E13, a dividing point is obtained. That is, if the position last-len at which the cadence note ends is more than half of the measure, the end of the measure is determined as a melody dividing point to determine the passage length p-len (E10, E13), and ends at less than half of the measure. If this is the case, the end of the bar one bar before that bar is used as the melody division point to determine the passage length p-len (E
10).

In E14 , it is checked whether or not there is a fill-in in the melody part indicated by p-len. If there is a fill-in, a melody division point is determined according to the position of the fill-in flag. In other words, if the fill-in flag stands before 以前 of the measure, the end of the measure one measure before the measure is set as the melody dividing point, and the section length p−1
If "en" is determined and the bar is standing after 3/4 of the measure, the end of the measure is defined as a melody division point, and the phrase length p-len is determined. As described above, the melody division point is determined in accordance with the detection of the fill-in, cadence note, outhact, or progress of four measures. Therefore, at E16, a phrase end flag is written at the position of the quantization melody memory 92 corresponding to the melody division point, thereby indicating that the phrase ends at that position.

Steps E17 and E18 are processing for determining the tonality of a passage. The current passage was decided by E16.
By referring to the tonality determination result of the previous phrase (however, when the current phrase is the first phrase, the entire melody), it is checked whether the key of the current phrase is the same as that. This is done by checking whether the pitch content of the current phrase is included in the PCS of the diatonic scale starting from the main tone of the previous phrase (or the entire melody). If it is included, the key entry (table of the first, second,..., Principal tone candidates) for the current phrase is made the same as that of the previous phrase (or the entire melody). If not included, the tonality determination is performed on the current passage at E18. This can be achieved by performing the same processing as the tonality determination processing (FIGS. 6 to 8) described for the entire melody on the current passage. At E20, it is checked whether the melody is over. If it is not over, the process returns to E2 to repeat the determination of the next phrase and the tonality analysis. By the above processing, the melody is divided into a plurality of passages, and a passage end flag is set at the end position of each passage in the quantization melody memory 92 (FIG. 5). In the key entry table 94, main tone candidates of each passage are entered.

Next, the arrangement processing is performed with a chord (Melody Harm
onization) processing. FIG. 12 shows a schematic flow of the chord adding process. The purpose of this process is to assign the desired chord progression to each passage. First, in the initialization 1 (M1), the first phrase of the quantization melody (already divided into phrases) is located. CPDB 82 in initialization 2 (M2)
Of the first chord of the first phrase is read from the key entry table 94. In the attribute test M3, the attributes (rhythm style and length) of the chord progress retrieved from the CPDB 82 are inspected.
If unsuccessful (NG), the next chord progression of CPDB 82 (C
P) is located (M8), and the process returns to the attribute test M3.
If it passes (OK), the process proceeds to motion and sound type classification M4.

In the motion and tone type classification M4, the motion and tone type of each note in the current passage are classified based on the current principal note candidate and the searched chord progression, and classification data 95 is created.
In the matching M5, the classification data 95 is inspected according to the rules of the melody pattern stored in the MPRB 84, and a musical note of a phrase that matches the melody pattern is labeled with a pattern. In the judgment M6, the ratio of notes with a pattern match label in the notes of the passage is evaluated as the CP match, and the chord progression given a relatively high match is stored in the CP entry table 97 as a chord progress candidate of the passage. I do.

If M7 is not the end of CPDB 82, C
Locate next chord progression in PDB (M8), M3
Return to The loops M3 to M8 correspond to the key entry table 9
Regarding the passage when the tonic candidate in No. 4 is the tonic, CP
This is repeated until all the chord progressions in the DB 82 are checked. Next, at M9, it is checked whether or not the main note candidate of the current passage remains in the key entry table 94, and if so, the next main note candidate is selected from the table 94 (M10), and C
Locate the beginning of PDB 82 and loop processing M3 to M8
Return to In this way, all chord progressions in the CPDB 82 are checked for all tonic candidates of the current passage.

At M11, the chord progression of the current passage is determined.
This can be performed, for example, by selecting the chord progression having the highest CP suitability among the chord progression candidates of the current passage entered in the CP entry table 97. The determination or selection of the chord progression may be performed every time an arrangement performance request is made as described later. At M12, it is checked whether or not a phrase to which a chord progression is to be allocated remains. If there is, a next phrase is located (M13), and the process returns to initialization 2 (M2) to continue. In this way, the chord-added processing routine assigns a desired chord progression to all passages in the quantization melody memory 92.

FIG. 13 shows a chord progress database (CPD).
B) shows the format of 82. In the CPDB 82, each chord progression record includes a rhythm attribute as an attribute and a chord progression length, a sequence of chord data as a main body, and an end mark. Each code data has route, type and length information. FIG. 14 shows the format of the melody pattern rule base (MPRB) 84. In the MDRB 84, the code of each melody pattern includes a rhythm attribute, a sequence of melody pattern data, and an end mark. The melody pattern data represents the function of a note, and includes a sound type and a motion type.

FIG. 15 shows a flow of the attribute test M3 (FIG. 12). Read the specified rhythm style in F1. Here, the designated rhythm style is a rhythm style that is automatically played to assist the melody playing on the keyboard 60 in recording a real-time melody (FIG. 3). CPDB82 in F2
, The rhythm attribute of the chord progression is compared with the designated rhythm at F3. If they match, the length of the passage is read at F4, and the length of the passage is compared with the length of the chord progression at F5. If they match, the attribute test routine M3 returns OK. Otherwise, NG is returned to the attribute test routine M3. Thus, the attribute test routine M3
Searches the CPDB 82 for chord progressions that match the length of the passage and the style of the specified rhythm.

FIGS. 16 and 17 show the flow of the motion and sound type classification routine M4 (FIG. 4). The purpose of this routine is to classify the note type and motion for each note in the passage. The classification result is stored in the classification data memory 95. The record of each note in the classification data memory 95 is composed of a total of 3 bytes of a tone type byte, a motion type byte, and a flag byte for pattern matching. Of these, the writing of the flag to the flag byte is executed in a later matching routine M5. The tone type represents the type of note that is defined by the key and chord as the background, and is selected from among chord tones, scale notes, tension notes, available notes, and void notes. Motion types are categorized according to how the pitch changes to the next note.
It is selected from among ascending leap progress, descending leap progress, ascending sequential progress, and descending sequential progress.

More specifically, first, in the initialization G 1, the classification data memory 95 is cleared, the leading locate, the leading locate of the searched chord progression, and the quantization melody memory 92 are performed.
Locate the first note of the current passage in, and clear the accumulator for the length of the chord and melody. In G2, it is checked whether the next code should be read from the code progress. This is a check to determine the chord in the chord progression that temporally corresponds to the current note to be classified,
Specifically, it is performed by comparing an accumulator (chord length) having a length from the beginning of the chord progression with an accumulator (melody length) having a length from the beginning of the passage. If the code length is no longer longer than the melody length, before proceeding to G6, read the next code from the chord progression and use that code to
The code tone PCS and the tension note PCS are read from the standard PCS memory 83, and the length of the code is added to the accumulator of the code length (G3 to G5).

Next, the pitch class PC of the current note is read at G6, the length of the current note is read at G7, and the length is added to the melody length accumulator at G8. Next, it is checked whether or not the PC is a rest (G9). Since the classification process is not performed on the rest, the next note is located via G35 and G36, and the process returns to G2. If it is not a rest (if it is a note), using the pitch class PC of the current note, the root ROOT of the current chord, and the current key candidate KEY, DROOT = (PC + 24−KEY−ROOT) mod
12 DKEY = (PC + 12−KEY) mod12 is obtained (G10, G11).

If the DROOT is an element of the chord tone PCS, the tone type (note type) of the current note is determined to be a chord tone (G12, G13). DKEY is an element of the scale note PCS (diatonic scale of the main tone C) (G14), and DROOT is the tension note P
If it is a CS element (G15), an available note is determined for the sound type (G17). If DKEY is an element of the scale note PCS but DROOT is not an element of the tension note PCS, the tone type is determined to be a scale note (G19). If DKEY is not included in the scale note PCS but DROOT is an element of the tension note PCS (G16), the tone type is determined as a tension note (G18). DKEY is not an element of Scale Note PCS, and DROOT is Tension Note PCS
If it is not an element, the tone type is determined to be an avoid note (G20). The tone type determined in this way is written to the tone type byte of the current note record in the classification data memory 95 (G21).

Thus, the note type classification processing of the current note is completed.
Next, the motion of the current note is classified. That is, if the current note is the last note of the passage, the motion type is determined to be the end motion (G22, G23). If it is not the last note, the pitch NP of the next note and the pitch PP of the current note are read, and a pitch change range (pitch) NP-PP from the current note to the next note is calculated (G24 to G26). If the pitch is "0" (same pitch), the motion type of the current note is determined to be the same-tone progression (G2
7). If the pitch is "1" or "2" (semitone or whole tone pitch rise), the motion type is determined to be ascending sequentially (G26, G28, G30). If the pitch is greater than "2", the motion type is determined to be ascending leap (G
26, G28, G29). The pitch is "-1" or "-2"
If (the pitch of a semitone or a whole tone falls), the motion type is determined to be descending sequential (G26, G31, G3)
2). If the pitch is smaller than “−2”, the motion type is determined to be a downward jump (G26, G31, G3).
3).

The motion type determined in this way is written to the motion byte of the current note in the classification data memory 95 (G34). Then, it is checked at G35 whether the end of the phrase has been reached. If not, the next note is located (G36), and the process returns to G2 to continue the classification process. In this way, the classification data memory 95 records the classification result of the sound type and the motion for all the notes of the passage. FIGS. 18 and 19 show the flow of the matching processing routine M5. In this routine,
It is checked whether or not the note classification data of the passage written in the classification data memory 95 matches the melody pattern in the MPRB 84, and a pattern matching flag is set in the flag byte of the note that matches the melody pattern.

In the initialization B1, the first note record in the classification data memory 95 is located (location = LOC).
1). In B2, the first melody pattern belonging to the designated rhythm style is located from the MPRB 84. L at B3
The classification data of the note record indicated by OC1 is read. Not at the end of the passage (data read at B3 = end mark)
4) If the end of MPRB 84 has not been reached (B
5) Set LOC1 to LOC2 in B6. This means that the note on the classification data memory 95 indicated by LOC1 is used as the first note for matching. That is, hereinafter, a comparison is made between the pattern of the classified note starting from the first note and each melody pattern of the MPRB 84. That is, MP data (note type and motion type of note of melody pattern) is read at B7, and classification data (note type and motion type of classified note) is read at B8. If both the sound type and the motion type match (B9, B
11), LOC2 is incremented to locate the next classified note, the next element of the melody pattern being inspected is located (B12), and the process returns to B7 to continue the comparison between the two. If a mismatch is detected in either the sound type or the motion type during the comparison with the melody pattern, the pattern is regarded as incompatible, and the MPRB 84 searches for the next melody pattern that matches the specified rhythm (B13).
Return to 5.

If the pattern of the classified note matches the melody pattern that has been inspected, an end motion is detected from the melody pattern in B10. In this case, B14 to B1
In step 6, a pattern matching flag is set in the flag bytes of the classified notes from LOC1 to LOC2, the first note for matching is advanced to the next (B17), and the process returns to B2. If the pattern of the classified note does not match any pattern of the MPRB 84, the end of the MPRB is detected at B5. Therefore, the first note for matching is advanced to the next (B17), and B
Return to 2. In this way, all the notes of the passage are regarded as the first notes and are matched with the respective melody patterns of the MPRB 84, and the matched note groups are labeled with the pattern matching flag.

FIGS. 20 and 2 show the flow of the judgment routine M8.
It is shown in FIG. This routine evaluates the degree of conformity of the chord progression to the passage by calculating the ratio of notes labeled with pattern matching by the matching processing routine. Then, the chord progression indicating a relatively high degree of conformity is recorded in the CP entry table 97 as a chord progression candidate of a passage. J1
To initialize (locate the head of the current passage in the quantization melody memory 92, locate the head of the classification data memory 95, and clear the CP conformity J-POINT), and set J-FLAG for rest in J2. The pitch class PC of the note is read at J3, and the length LEN of the note is read at J4. Rest (P
If C = “rest”, that is, if it is a note, the pattern matching flag of the note is read from the classification data memory 95 (J5, J6). If the pattern matching flag is set (J7), the CP evaluation value J-POINT contains the note length L.
EN is added (J8), and J-FLAG is set up (J9).
If the pattern matching flag is not set, J-FLAG is lowered (J10). When the J-FLAG is raised or lowered, if a rest comes after a note with a pattern conforming label, the rest is regarded as conforming, and a rest following a note with a pattern non-conforming label. Is to be regarded as non-conforming. That is, when a rest is detected (J5), J-FLA
Only when G is standing, the rest length LEN is C
It is added to the P conformity J-POINT (J11, J12).

If the last note of the passage has not been reached (J1
3), locate the next note of the phrase in the quantization melody memory 92 (J14), and return to J3. If the last note of the passage does not have a pattern matching flag (J1
3, J15), and the length LEN is determined by the CP conformity J-POI.
Subtract from NT (J16). This is because the last note
This is because it is an important note in the chord.
In this way, the CP suitability of the chord progression retrieved from the CPDB 82 is evaluated. Subsequently, according to the flow of FIG. 21, it is determined whether or not the checked chord progression is to be entered as a chord progression candidate of a passage. Here, the CP entry table 97 is prepared for each passage. In FIG. 13, the number of CP entries in each passage is four (J17). The data record of each entry is a CP conformity ENTRY [i], a chord progression pointer CP [i], and a key tone KEY [i].
It consists of three items. In the loop from J18 to J23, the elements of the CP entry table of the current passage are rearranged in accordance with the order of the CP conformity of the checked chord progression. In J18, J-POINT> ENTRY [i]
Is the (i + 1) -th chord progression CP when
This is the rank of the degree of conformity.

Therefore, in J24 to J27, the CP entry record of that order contains the CP of the current chord progression.
The fitness J-POINT, the location of the current chord progression in the CPDB 82, and the current principal note candidate are recorded. Arrange key 7 upon completion of chorded processing (FIG. 12)
The melody range processing for No. 6 is completed. afterwards,
When the play key 77 is pressed, the music device (FIG. 2) automatically plays the contents of the arrangement. That is, a melody performance by playing the melody data in the quantization melody memory 92, creation and performance of an accompaniment part based on the determined chord progression and accompaniment pattern data of the specified style, and rhythm performance of the specified style are performed.

It is desirable that the arrangement of the chords (chord progression for the melody) be changed each time the arrangement is performed by the play key 77, so that the user as the listener can enjoy various arrangements. This can be realized, for example, by selecting the chord progression of each passage from the CP entry table 97 by random numbers or in the order of entry in response to the operation of the play key 77 (in this case, M11 in FIG. 12 is omitted). ). Another example is shown by a flow in FIG. In this example, for each passage, the CP conformity of the chord progression used for the previous accompaniment is 100% (J-POI
If NT / section length = 1), the next CP entry is selected from the CP entry table 97 and used for the current accompaniment. If the CP suitability of the previously selected chord progression is less than 100%, the first rank is selected. Select the next CP entry. At the time of the first arrangement performance, the first CP entry is used for each passage.

More specifically, the number of performances M is incremented at C1, and the first passage is located at C2. C3
From the CP entry table of the current passage, 100% fitness
Is counted. If A is the number of entries (four in FIG. 21), A is incremented by one if it is less than the number of entries (C4, C5). And
At C6, the MmodA-th CP entry in the CP entry table of the current passage is selected, and its chord progression and principal note are written to a performance buffer (not shown). Next, the next passage is located (CS), and the above-mentioned chord progression selection processing is executed for all the passages of the melody (C7). Thereafter, accompaniment is performed using the chord progression and tonality of each passage written in the performance buffer (not shown). In order to guarantee always satisfactory arrangement performance, CP conformity should be 10
It is desirable to have a function that corrects a chord progression of less than 0% so as to have higher fitness.

This corresponds to, for example, the CP shown in FIG.
This can be realized by providing a synthesis routine. The CP synthesis routine locates the first phrase of the melody as the current phrase in S1. In S2, one CP entry is selected from the CP entry table of the current passage by an appropriate method (for example, a random number or the method described with reference to FIG. 21). CP of the entry
If the degree of conformity is 100% (S3), the process proceeds to the next passage without correcting the chord progression (S16). If the fitness of the selected CP entry is less than 100% (S3), the process proceeds to S4, and the first measure of the chord progression CP (i) of the entry is located as K measure. Chord progression CP in S5
The fitness of the K measure in (i) is evaluated, and if it is 100%, (S
6) Advance K bar to the next bar (S14).

If the fitness of the K measure of the chord progression CP (i) is less than 100%, the fitness of the K measure is selected from the chord progression DB of the designated style having the length of the current passage in the CPDB 82. Is searched for a chord progression CP that is 100%, and the chord progression CP is added to the contents of the K bar of that LP.
The K bar of (i) is rewritten (S6 to S12). That is,
Locates the first CP whose length matches the current passage length from the CPDB 12 and has the attribute of the designated rhythm style (S7)
Then, the fitness of the K measure is evaluated (S8), and if it is 100%, the chord progression CP (i) is corrected by the K measure of CP (i) = K measure of CP (S9, S12). If the fitness of the K measure of the CP is less than 100% (S9), the CPDB
The next CP that satisfies the conditions of the specified style and current passage from 82
Is located (S10), and the process returns to S5 via S11.
If there is no CP in the CPDB with a K bar fitness of 100% (S11), the K bar of the chord progression CP (i) is not changed and the process proceeds to the next bar (S14).

Instead of this, the K measure of CP (i) may be replaced with the K measure of the CP having the highest degree of fitness of the K measure in the CPDB of the designated condition (designated style, section length). The above processing is performed for all measures of the chord progression CP (i) (S13). In S15, it is checked whether or not the correction of the chord progression of all the passages or the synthesizing process is completed. If not, the current passage is advanced to the next passage (S1).
6) Repeat the process. As a result, such a CP synthesis process enlarges the virtual space of the CPDB 82. Also, instead of simply changing a chord to another chord, such as a surrogate chord without special musical grounds, as in the conventional re-chording technique, the chord is placed in the CPDB 82 and has the same style attribute and length. The chord progressions are synthesized using the degree of conformity as a synthesis criterion and with a musical time correspondence. Therefore, the naturalness of chord progression after synthesis is maintained. The description of the embodiment is finished above, but various changes can be made within the scope of the present invention.

[0057]

As described above in detail, the chord adding device of the present invention divides a melody into musical segments, which are musical meaning units, and assigns a chord progression (chord pattern) to each of the divided musical segments. Search the database and assign a matching chord progression. Therefore, there is no habit peculiar to the chord determination algorithm found in the conventional chording device, and a natural and realistic chord progression can be added to the melody.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a chord adding device based on the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a hardware configuration of the music apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a real-time input melody recording process.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a recording format of input melody data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data format of quantized melody data.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a part of a tonality determination process.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a part of a tonality determination process.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a part of a tonality determination process.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing data of a coupling degree table.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a melody division process.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a musical example of melody division.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a chord adding process.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a format of a chord progression database.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a melody pattern rule-based format.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart of an attribute test.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a part of a motion and sound type classification process.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing a part of a motion and sound type classification process.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing a part of a matching process.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart showing a part of a matching process.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating a part of a determination process.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart illustrating a part of a determination process.

FIG. 22 is a flowchart of a chord progression selection process.

FIG. 23 is a flowchart of a chord progression synthesis process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 melody 4 melody division 6 passages 12 chord progress database (CPD) 22 melody pattern rule base (MPRB) 26 fitness evaluation 28 decision 30 decision chord progression

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] (A) a melody providing means for providing a melody composed of a series of note strings ; and (B) each note constituting the melody is inspected and specified.
A specific note detecting means for detecting whether or not a note exists; and (C) a specific note detected by the specific note detecting means.
Melody dividing means for dividing the melody into a plurality of passages based on the position on the melody , (D) a chord progression database storing a chord progression database, and (E) each divided passage. A chord progression allocating means for searching the chord progression database means and allocating a suitable chord progression. 2. The chording device according to claim 1, wherein
The specific note detecting means detects the melody as a specific note.
The end-of-phrase note exists in the sequence of notes
A chord-equipped device characterized by detecting whether or not the chord is present. 3. The chording device according to claim 1, wherein
The note detecting means detects a specific note as the end of the melody.
Check if there is a rest longer than half a bar at the beginning
A chording device characterized by detecting . 4. The chording device according to claim 1, wherein
The chord progression allocating means comprises: (A) a melody storing a rule base of the melody pattern;
And Day pattern rule base memory means, chord progression from (B) said chord progression database means
And (C) a music passage analyzing section based on the searched chord progression.
Clause analysis means; and (D) a rule of the melody pattern,
Search by base, search for chord progression, passage
Chord with apparatus characterized by having a fit evaluation means for evaluating the degree of conformity. 5. The chording device according to claim 1, wherein
The chord progression allocating means includes a plurality of chord progressions for each passage.
Characterized in that it includes means for generating a candidate . 6. The chord progression apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said chord progression allocating means comprises a chord progression database.
By combining multiple chord progressions stored in a column,
A chording device, characterized in that it comprises means for generating a chord progression .