FR2466062A1 - Decoding music onto transparent film - uses two colour system using vertical synchronising marks with interconnecting curved and straight lines - Google Patents

Abstract

The method of decoding musical texts on a transparent film or on the music itself uses signs in first and second colours of the decoding code of a piece of music to place on the music printing. The two colour signs are to synchronise notes. A vertical trace (2) gives the first synchronising mark for a note assembly and one in another colour denotes the end of the assembly. There are circular synchronising marks above a vertical trace of the same colour and straight and curved traces (1) in a second one.

Description

The present invention relates to a method containing the significant visual codification of the phenomenology of the associative properties of the notes with one another, as arranged in a musical text, with a view to its good instrumental expression, as well as a device for the use of this process, more particularly to play a musical writing whatever it is, in the manner rigorously faithful to its author.

In accordance with the invention, to indicate the coding of the secret phenomena of associativity of the notes with one another, ie therefore not apparent on the printing plane of a musical text, a binary notation mode is used.

According to a particular characteristic of the invention, said binary notation mode is based on the use of a first color and a second color, for example preferably, green and red, respectively.

With the aid of said colors, we graphically mark how, in order to achieve them instrumentally, the associations between the elements-notes, the sets, sub-sets and collections of notes as well as the rests in a musical text, conform to the coding of the decryption of these associations carried out according to the following rules.

Said first color, namely green in the preferred case, is used to mark the notes which have the character of long and retained, and said second color, namely red in the preferred case, to mark the notes which have the character of brief and of dynamic intensity, in such a way that, by using the two above-mentioned colors, any note placed at the beginning of a set or a sub-set or a collection is marked , by a small green line, in the form of a rectilinear vertical line crossing said note in the middle, and we mark any note placed at the end of a set or a sub-set or a collection, by a small red line, in the form of a rectilinear vertical line crossing said note in the middle ;; inside a ternary unit, the first note being marked with a green vertical line, the other two will be marked with a red vertical line; we mark any note of a high point (start of measure) with a green circle, without excluding the green vertical dash placed on the corresponding note as indicated above, while alternating the vertical lines green-red-green- red depending on whether it is binary or ternary; we connect the space between any last ensemble note, subset or collection and any first note in the ensemble, subset or collection following by a red, continuous line, of sinuous or wavy shape, passing over a more note high or pardes under a lower note or surrounding in the form of a loop, an intermediate note of a vertical set; the same note or element-note of a set, sub-set or collection to be marked two vertical lines of the first color and the second color, arranged separately so as to cross respectively the corresponding note on the lateral parts thereof ci, if this note is an end of the whole coinciding with a beginning of collection, it being understood that the red marking a short value always precedes, horizontally, the green marking-a long value.

According to another characteristic of the invention, a device is proposed for materializing said method, this device being remarkable in that:
it consists of a surface of transparent material, such as plastic or tracing paper, on which are worn, no
particularly by printing or inlay, said traces or marks,
in such a way that said device, once applied flat on a
musical score, lets appear by transparency the music text printed in a traditional way, on which text is juxtaposed then feels, in incidence with the notes which correspond to them, the vertical lines respectively green and red carried by the device, while said notes appear connected together, in said spaces defined above, by the sinuous red lines respectively carried by this device.

This device also comprises, on said surface, small angular traces for locating the corners of the music page, so that said juxtaposition occurs rigorously during said application.

According to another characteristic of the invention, the device is characterized by the fact that: it consists of at least one sheet, each carrying said traces on their surface and that, in the case where it is desired to read two successively music pages with a single device, this consists of two of said sheets, in one piece, joined by the same fold edge, so that one can insert a page of music printed on both sides, between the two sheets of the device, folded one against the other, or extend flat the two open sheets to read flat two pages of an open music score.

According to yet another characteristic, the aforementioned method, in accordance with the invention, is carried out on the partition itself and then meets the same objective as the transparent device, because it obviously confers the same characteristics as the latter as regards concerns musical expression; this embodiment then provides music printing and pressure coding, in particular at the same time on the usual medium.

Finally, according to another important characteristic of the invention, but by no means the last, the device of the invention is provided in a form such that: it is constituted by a slide provided with said traces or marks in binary mode, in order to their projection on a screen, on which the corresponding musical text is fixed or projected, which is suitable for any public presentation, a device which thus allows concertation on a same subject of the same writing, that which this device, music and its good execution.

The secrets of the aforementioned associativity phenomena are revealed in the device of the invention, by, what the plots of two colors themselves indicate, according to the description given above.

Indeed, the sinuosities, interrupted or uninterrupted, which appear on the device, signify the powers and the ways of associativity so diverse of the notes between them, and translate on the plane, the existence of movements, translations, or displacements. - elements of all shapes and all forces, which are, in their evolution in space, helical, cylindrical, direct, wave, contrary, periodic, oblique, straight or curvilinear.

These particularities indicate and specify the articulations both specific to the music and to the instrumentalist on which depends the fidelity of execution of the writing of its author.

Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will be better understood on reading the detailed description which follows, of a preferred embodiment, given by way of indication, but not exclusive, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. I schematically represents, on an enlarged scale, an example of figuration of the distributions of the structures of the binary within the notes and this, in direct relation to the value of each of them within all the musical compositions;
FIG. 2 represents a fragment of musical text, as printed in a traditional manner but on an enlarged scale, on which the device according to the invention is applied, this FIG. 2 being separate, for the convenience of reading this fragment of musical text as a whole, in a figure 2A and a figure 2B, being in tension that the reading is linked on the order 2A-2B;
FIG. 3 schematically represents a fraction of the device of the invention; and
FIG. 4 represents the musical text corresponding to said device of FIG. 3, before the application of this device to this text, the musical patterns of this FIG. 4 being the same as those of FIG. 2B.

Referring first to FIG. 1, it can be seen that in terms of legend, a red line of the invention has been represented, in a purely conventional manner, in black and white, by a straight vertical line. 1, of a dotted graphics.

In the legendary mAeae, next to line 1, it can be seen that a green line of the invention has been represented, also in a purely conventional manner, in black and white, by a straight vertical line 2, of horizontally hatched graphics.

The same FIG. 1 shows the series of notes A to H whose respective time value T is indicated under each corresponding note in multiples or fractions of unit, relative to the reference time unit 1, of the quarter note C.

Using lines 1 and 2, red and green respectively, we have marked how the values of brief and long in each note case are to be distributed, according to the binary mode, in accordance with the decryption of its respective position in the text musical.

Thus, round A is divided into two binaries, marked by the lines or vertical signs 2-1-2-1, namely green-red-green-red.

Still using below said vertical lines or signs, it can be seen that:
White B consists of a binary, 2-1, namely green-red;
From quarter note C to eighth note H, i.e.
going from C to H in the figure, each note can be crossed
vertically by the two signs 2-1 (red-green) or by
either, in the latter case, the vertical straight line
2 or 1 crossing the corresponding note in the middle, what we
can see in the other figures. What comes further clarified
thus applies to quarter note C, eighth note or even eighth note D,
at the eighth note E, at the eighth note F, at the eighth note
th G and eighth note K.

Referring now to FIGS. 2A and 2B, we can see a fragment of musical text to which the transparent device of the invention is applied, as provided with the green and red lines defined above. This musical text is distributed, for the convenience of reading, in the two figures 2A, then 2B, the reading of the entire text being done from left to right in the direction 2A-2B.

We can immediately see that, in accordance with the invention, the device lets appear between the notes, the green 2 and red 1 lines, both vertical and sinuous. It can also be understood that, in the case where said plots are directly printed on the score, the same objective is visually achieved as with an application of the device on a traditional text.

To better illustrate how the device of the invention is used, there is shown in FIG. 4, a part of this device, generally indicated by the reference numeral 3 and provided with traces 1 and 2 which correspond to a part of music text, represented below said device, this part of the text reproducing that of FIG. 2A, except that, in the case of said FIG. 4, the music text does not allow said traces to appear.

It is only after the device 3 has been applied to the part of the corresponding text that these plots will appear. To obtain the juxtaposition mentioned above, in a rigorous manner, we will match the small angular traces 4 for locating, respectively carried by the musical text and by the device 3.

The musical text of the figures, given as an example, is written in treble clef, with a measure of four beats. In FIG. 2A, as well as in FIG. 4, there are, in a first end of measurement, in J, twice two vertical sets of three notes; then, in the beginning of a second measure, successively, in K, a set of four notes, made of two linked notes twice, ie in two collections; then in L, a set of four notes, made of three notes in collection and a singleton, and, in M, a set of four notes, made of a singleton and three notes in collection.

The end of this second measurement is shown in FIG. 2B. We see that said measure ends with a set N, made of five separate notes, including a subset of two notes. The beginning of a third measure, represented at 0 in said FIG. 4, comprises a vertical set of two notes and a horizontal set of nine notes, made up of two collections, respectively of two notes for the first, and of seven notes for the second, the latter set also being subdivided into a singleton and into three subsets.

In the said figures, it can be seen that lton has executed the green lines and the red lines, corresponding to the example considered, by conforming to the methods described above.

We can thus recognize the green lines 2, rectilinear and vertical, which indicate where the notes of long character are located and expressed.

On the other hand, we recognize the green dots (with a horizontally hatched graphic, similar to that of the vertical lines 2), which signify the notes of a high point at the start of a measure. This is so for the La, of the set K of FIG. 2A and for the notes of the vertical set starting from O in FIG. 2B.

We will also underline what the red lines 1 express.

When said red lines .1 are vertical, they signify an accentuation and an intensification of the note which bears this vertical sign in the middle.

When said red lines 1 are sinuous and continuous, the notes which these lines signify, and which are thus connected to each other, through them, are played in association, and the same intensity is maintained in thickness, and continues. This means that these notes are executed on the string and without breaking, as if they were welded.

The intervals not provided with a red line, mark the discontinuities or breaths inside the phrasing.

The sinuous red line preceding the note at the start of a staff means that this note is linked to the final note at the end of the previous staff, as can be seen in Figure 2A, at the entry of vertical sets J.

The sinuous red line starting from the final note of a staff means that this note is linked to the note at the beginning of the next staff, as can be seen at the end of the set O in Figure 2B.

This link, signified by the sinuous red line, is found at each bar and crosses it to indicate the continuity of the phrases, except in the case where the final note of a measure precedes a silence. In this case, the red longitudinal line ends in this silence and stops there. This is what gives the character and meaning of breath taking in phrasing.

To simplify the illustration, such silences have not been represented in the drawings, but a person skilled in the art can easily represent them without further details.

As for the red lines crossing the measurement bars, which have just been mentioned, they can be seen, on the one hand, in FIG. 2A, between the sets J and K, and on the other hand, in the Figure 2B, between sets E and F.

It will be noted that, as a result of the separation of the musical text into two figures, 2A and 2B, for the convenience of the representation, the sinuous red line starting from the end of the set M in FIG. 2A seems to be interrupted, but it is It is clear that it continues at the entrance to the set N of FIG. 2B. This line must thus be understood as continuous and restored, as such, by placing side by side Figures 2A and 2B to read the entire text.

It will also be observed, in particular in the assemblies J of FIG. 2A and at the corresponding location on the transparent device 3 of FIG. 3, the continuity of the sinuous red line, during its crossing of a vertical assembly, surrounding at passing through a loop, an intermediate note.

We can thus see that the invention satisfies the objectives which it proposes, by allowing, thanks to the decryption and coding carried out on the support or on the score, concertation between musicians or apprentice-musicians - in front of the musical text.

The invention is particularly suitable for teaching by pedagogical nature, the decryption of the secret of the music being carried out on the device and applied to the musical text, or carried out on the text itself, as provided above.

The method of the invention which defines the decryption system, and the consequent ccdifications, could be established because it emanates from phenomenologies of sensorimotor movement in humans, and because it depends on it.

This system reveals and regulates sensory phenomenologies; the aforementioned which are at the heart of the intercommunications, and the games, or permutations, of the three main and fundamental sensory organs, essentially and here, in terms of music, emptiness, tact and hearing, as the applicant has shown in his work entitled "La Cybernétique des Sens", published in 1962.

It is obvious that, in the case of notes, the example of the G key applies to all the other keys, whatever the reinforcements.

The invention can be carried out according to any suitable form and the desired variants. So, we can choose to make the plots in other colors, these must be very readable without overloading,

Claims (6)

 1) Planar support, characterized in that it is made of a relatively rigid, transparent material, and it bears signs in first and second colors of the code for decrypting a musical text, to be superimposed on the musical writing of a score as well as means for positioning the support relative to the score.  2) Support according to claim 1, characterized by binary signs of the decryption code, in two colors, for locating the notes, a vertical line crossing the staff constituting a reference at the start of a set of notes and a vertical line d 'another color defining the end of the set. 3) Support according to claim 2, characterized in that it comprises circular marks above a vertical line of a first corresponding color, as well as straight or curvilinear lines, ascending or descending in a second color, starting vertical lines of this second color and connecting vertical lines of the first color.  4) Support according to any one of claims I and 2, characterized in that it consists of a transparent material such as a plastic material or a tracing paper, material on which are carried, in particular by printing or inlay, the traces or the marks in such a way that said once applied flat on a musical score, lets appear by transparency the musical text on which it is superimposed according to the notes to which correspond the vertical lines in two colors of the support, so that the notes appear linked together.  5) Support according to claim 4, characterized in that it comprises the means for locating angular plots for locating the corners of the music page for rigorous coincidence with the music page.  6) Support according to any one of claims 3 and 4, characterized in that it consists of two sheets whose surface carries traces for two pages of music, the two sheets being joined by the same fold edge to insert a page of music printed on both sides between the two sheets folded one against the other, or else lay the open sheet flat to read two open pages of a musical score flat.