KR101546331B1 - Method for reproducing music using musical scales and apparatus using the method - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a music reproducing method using musical scales and a music reproducing apparatus using the same. The music reproducing apparatus using music scales according to the present invention comprises: a music scale voice database for storing the absolute music scale of a program for each of one or more tonalities and a voice file related to the absolute music scale; a score parsing unit for extracting information of a score file by parsing the score file for a selected music; and a performance control unit which determines the tonality of the selected music based on the information of the score file, extracts the absolute music scale matched with the tonality of the music from the music scale voice database, and reproduces the voice file in accordance with the extracted absolute music scale. The voice file in accordance with the absolute music scale includes human voice data vocalized according to the pronunciation of the corresponding absolute music scale and pitch.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a music reproduction method using a musical scale,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to music reproduction, and more particularly, to a music reproduction method using a musical scale and a music reproduction apparatus using the same.

The development of the IT industry has a lot of influence on the music, such as electronic piano, electronic musical score, and file-based sound source. This kind of meeting between IT and music allows the public to easily access various forms of music.

Among them, the electronic score expresses music in notation form and various forms have been introduced. These electronic musical forms include MusicXML, Music Markup Language (MML), Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF), Standard Music Description Language (SMDL), and MNML Musical Notation Markup Language), HTML (Music HTML), JScoreML, and Xscore (eXtensible Score Language).

However, since each of these musical forms has different notation types and uses and musical expressions are different from each other, it is not centered on those who want to deal with musical notations. Instead, musical instruments that are processed are centered on musical notation, There is a limitation in that it is not a standardized electronic musical form such as having limitations in retrieval or the like and applicability and expandability not meeting expectations.

Thus, while overcoming these limitations, various musical expressions are possible, while the need for highly scalable electronic musical scores has been increased by applying them to various applications such as music analysis, analysis, and retrieval. In order to meet these diverse demands under the Internet environment An electronic musical format based on XML called MusicXML has been developed. MusicXML is currently considered the most suitable standard for electronic musical scores. However, it is important to express musical score in a standardized electronic musical score format, so that when many musical scores existing in the real world are represented by electronic musical score, these musical scores can be practically played as musical instruments, When searching for music score, score management for searching based on actual music score is important and more important than simple keyword information such as title or composer.

MusicXML is the most standard electronic score format for present musical score representation. MusicXML is a representative musical notation format, overcoming the disadvantage that the widely used MIDI format is limited for the rich musical expression so that it is easy to express various musical forms, and DTD is open to all, and its applicability and expandability It is considered to be the most suitable standard of music that follows MIDI.

In the current situation where computing devices such as desktop computers and laptops are widely used in the home and educational field, if such electronic musical score is combined with music education for children etc., a great educational effect can be expected with a minimum cost. However, It is not possible to propose effective measures.

An object of the present invention to overcome the above-mentioned problems is to provide a music reproducing method using a musical scale.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a music playback apparatus using the above method.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a musical tone reproduction apparatus using a musical scale, the musical tone reproduction apparatus comprising: a musical tone database storing an absolute musical scale for at least one compositional program and an absolute musical tone related voice file; A musical score file parsing unit for analyzing a musical score file for the musical piece and extracting information of the musical score file; and a processor for determining the composition of the musical piece selected from the information of the score file and extracting an absolute musical scale matching the composition of the musical composition from the musical scale database And a performance control unit for reproducing the voice file according to the extracted absolute scale, and the voice file according to the absolute scale includes voice data of the human being uttered according to the pronunciation and pitch of the absolute scale.

Here, the at least one composition-specific program includes twelve different programs in which the mute sounds are different.

The performance control unit selects a program suitable for the composition of the musical score and sequentially reproduces an audio file corresponding to an absolute scale included in the selected program for each note included in the musical composition.

The absolute scale-related sound file is human-voice-recorded data uttered so as to match the absolute scale of each composition from the lowest-frequency band to the highest-frequency band that can be uttered by humans to the pitch of the absolute scale.

The performance control unit also changes the corresponding program and the program-related absolute musical scale according to the composition requested to be changed, and reproduces the voice file according to the changed absolute scale when receiving the request for conversion.

Wherein the music reproduction apparatus using the musical scale performs performance using a music file database including at least one music file and music piece-related music files selected from the at least one music file based on the extracted score file information And a display unit for displaying the score file information extracted by the score file parsing unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for reproducing music using a musical scale, the method comprising: storing an absolute scale for at least one compositional program and an absolute scale related voice file; Extracting information of the score file by analyzing the score file, determining a composition of a music piece selected from the information of the score file, extracting an absolute scale of the at least one composition- Extracting at least one absolute scale matching the composition and reproducing the extracted audio file according to the at least one absolute scale, wherein the absolute scale-related audio file is generated based on the pronunciation and pitch of the absolute scale, And the like.

According to the musical reproduction method using a musical scale as described above and the music reproduction apparatus using the musical scale, it is possible for a user who does not have a high level of musical education to easily learn the commandment of the song, and thus can be used for music education.

In addition, it is easy to check command names that are changed in a complicated case, and it is advantageous to provide musicians with high level of musical information.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scale according to the present invention.
2 is a view showing another embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scales according to the present invention.
3 is a view showing another embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scale according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating another embodiment of a user screen of a music playback apparatus using a musical scale according to the present invention.
5 is a view showing another embodiment of a user screen of a music playback apparatus using a scale according to the present invention.
6 is a block diagram of a speech reproducing apparatus using a scale according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a table summarizing information of files stored in the scale voice database according to the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an operation of the music reproducing method according to the present invention.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail.

It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component. And / or < / RTI > includes any combination of a plurality of related listed items or any of a plurality of related listed items.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, . On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In the present application, the terms "comprises" or "having" and the like are used to specify that there is a feature, a number, a step, an operation, an element, a component or a combination thereof described in the specification, But do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and are to be interpreted in an ideal or overly formal sense unless explicitly defined in the present application Do not.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In order to facilitate the understanding of the present invention, the same reference numerals are used for the same constituent elements in the drawings and redundant explanations for the same constituent elements are omitted.

In the musical sound reproducing apparatus using a musical scale according to the present invention, musical information represented by each note on the musical score and musical scale information indicated by the commandment are also expressed by human voice. In the present specification, a scales may refer to scales in which the notes used in all or part of a piece of music are arranged in a step-like manner within an octave, and are sometimes used in the same meaning as a command name. Further, the term "pitch" as used herein is used to mean a pitch of a sound relative to a reference sound within a scale.

FIG. 1 is an embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scales according to the present invention.

The music reproduction apparatus as shown in FIG. 1 holds music files for a plurality of songs, provides information about the music files to the users, and plays the songs selected by the user. At this time, the information about the music file includes various information related to the music such as an identifier (ID) assigned to the music, title of the music, composition of the music, composer of the music, name of the musician singing the music. An example of information on such a music file can be confirmed on the user screen of FIG.

Referring to the user menu area 1100 of FIG. 1, the user-provided screen according to the present invention basically provides a playback menu, a pause / stop menu, a volume control menu, an equalizer function, and a search menu for searching for a song. The user menu according to the present invention not only provides menus for key setting, unadjusted key setting, tempo setting, transposition setting, octave setting, and the like.

The music reproduction apparatus according to the present invention also provides a lyric song mode for singing with lyrics together with performance, including a lyric song menu or a commandment song menu, and a commandment song mode for singing with a commandment along with performance. The commandment song mode according to the present invention reproduces music so that the commandment can be pronounced and singed including the pitches simply beyond the level of outputting the commandment by voice. The music reproduction apparatus according to the present invention also allows the command song to be changed by reflecting a change in pronunciation of the command name (command) changed at the time of the transposition.

According to the present invention, a music teacher can give the same effect as singing a song by a commandment, so that a user having a low music education level can easily learn a commandment of the song. In addition, it is also possible to easily identify commandments changed in a complex case, thereby providing a music reproducing apparatus which is also useful for users with a high level of music education.

2 is another embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scales according to the present invention.

In the user screen of FIG. 2, the music score display area 1200 located on the user menu area 1100 can be checked. The score representation area 1200 is a pair of a score for a song and a score for an accompaniment. In the embodiment of FIG. 2, a music score is represented according to the present invention in a situation where a music piece is selected along with a lyrics song mode and a music piece is played. In the embodiment of FIG. 2, a score sheet is displayed along with the lyrics for the song "One Person" by Yang Hee Eun, and the measure during which the song is currently being performed is highlighted with a color contrasted with the other portions.

3 is another embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scales according to the present invention.

The embodiment of FIG. 3 shows a musical score expressed in accordance with the present invention in a situation where a song is played when "commandment display" is selected with the "lyrics song" mode. In the embodiment of FIG. 3, a situation of singing a song using lyrics is played, but a command name is displayed below each note on the song score in the score expression area 1200.

4 is another embodiment of a user screen of a music playback apparatus using a musical scale according to the present invention.

The embodiment of Fig. 4 shows a user screen in a state of being switched to the " commando song " mode. In the embodiment of FIG. 4, unlike the previous embodiments, a situation in which a command is pronounced and a song is played is played, and a command name is also displayed under each note on the song score in the score expression area 1200.

The " commandment song " played according to the present invention can be understood as a set of voice files in which a voice of a person uttered by the command of the corresponding voice is recorded. Here, each voice file is uttered with a human voice, and each pronunciation has a pitch, that is, a pitch. In addition, according to the present invention, each voice file included in the set of voice files edited for the corresponding song is reproduced at intervals according to the length of the voice.

5 is another embodiment of a user screen of a music reproducing apparatus using a scales according to the present invention.

The embodiment of FIG. 5 is in the "command song" mode as in the embodiment of FIG. 4, but differs from the embodiment of FIG. 4 in that the embodiment of FIG. In other words, Fig. 5 shows an embodiment in which a transposition occurs in a large number of songs shown in Fig. 4 and is converted into " descending major axis ".

In the user screen shown in Fig. 5, a command name is also displayed under each note on the song score in the score representation area 1200. In the case of Fig. 4, the scale that is continuous with " In the case of "Dipadidomemes", it is indicated that the method of writing the absolute scale (commandment) is changed as the composition is changed.

6 is a block diagram of a speech reproducing apparatus using a scale according to the present invention.

The constituent elements according to the present invention described above with reference to FIG. 6 may be defined by the functions that each of the constituent elements defined by the functional division, not the physical division, performs. Each component may be implemented as hardware and / or program code and a processing unit that perform the respective functions, and the functions of two or more components may be embodied in one component. Therefore, in the following embodiments, names given to constituent elements are given not to physically distinguish each constituent element but to imply a representative function performed by each constituent element. It is to be noted that the technical idea of the invention is not limited.

6 is a block diagram of a musical sound reproducing apparatus according to the present invention. The musical sound reproducing apparatus includes a performance control unit 100, a scales voice database 200, a music file database 300, a user input unit 110, a display unit 120, A performance unit 130, and a score file parsing unit 140. [

The music file database 300 includes various music files used in music score playing according to the present invention. The term 'database' used in the present invention does not mean a strict type database such as relational and objected-oriented databases but refers to a functional component for storing information, . ≪ / RTI > For example, it may be configured as a simple information storage component in the form of a file-base used in the present invention.

The music file according to the present invention includes a music score file and a sound source file, and may include various kinds of music related files. The musical score file according to the present invention may be a MIDI file, MusicXML, Music Markup Language (MML), Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF), Standard Music Description Language (SMDL), Musical Notation Markup Language (MNML) , Xscore (eXtensible Score Language), and the like.

Also, the sound source file according to the present invention may include sound source files of various formats such as MP3, FLAC, WAV (wave), and DRM.

The score file parsing unit 140 according to the present invention analyzes various types of the score file and extracts the information possessed by the score file. Here, MusicXML is used as an example of the most widely used musical score. The MusicXML electronic musical score itself is one XML text data composed of various types of tag information. Therefore, in order to make it possible to play it by a program, or to provide it as a musical score drawn on a line so that actual users such as a player can know, a conversion process is required through analysis of the XML score.

The score file parsing unit 140 parses the MusicXML score sheet for score analysis to determine whether each tag information performs a function in the actual score sheet. MusicXML sheet music consists of various components, which are divided into two parts: a header and a body. At this time, upper information about the score, such as the title of the work, the work number, the composer, the lyricist, the part list, and the like, are displayed on the head part, and the body part includes the score, beat, And detailed information about various components that can represent music on the disc.

The score file parsing unit 140 analyzes the tag analysis information through MusicXML score parsing. At this time, the tag analysis includes the header information of the score and the body information. The analyzed score information is provided to the performance control unit 100 so that the user can perform a content-based search using the actual melody information.

The performance control unit 100 further includes a display unit 120 for converting the analyzed information to represent the coordinates of the score information by analyzing the tag, displaying the score on an actual screen, and playing the score using the sound source of the computer To the performance unit 130.

The performance unit 130 performs performance using the selected music-related music file among at least one music file based on the extracted score file information.

The performance control unit 100 determines the composition of the musical composition selected from the information about the musical score file, extracts the absolute musical scale matching the composition of the musical composition from the musical scale database 200, and plays back the audio file according to the extracted absolute scale .

Specifically, the performance control section 100 selects a program suitable for the composition of the musical score, and sequentially reproduces, for each note included in the musical composition, an audio file corresponding to an absolute scale included in the selected program.

The performance control unit 100 also changes the corresponding program and the program-related absolute musical scale according to the composition requested to be changed, and reproduces the audio file according to the changed absolute scale when receiving the request for conversion. Here, the program is defined by a scales voice database according to the present invention as a scales system for each composition.

Scale voice database 200 stores an absolute scale for at least one composition-specific program and the absolute scale related voice file. That is, the scale voice database 200 stores scale scale voice data for enabling voice reproduction using scales according to the present invention, for example, in the form of a table. One embodiment of the scale voice data table can be seen in detail with reference to FIG. 7, which will be described in detail later with reference to FIG.

The user input unit 110 includes a keyboard for selection of options for use in setting various performance environments such as selection of a song list, musical score, and the like expressed by the user through the display unit 120 and selection of music, key setting, A mouse, a touch panel, and the like.

The music reproducing apparatus using a musical scale according to the present invention can be implemented by being included in a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a portable user terminal, and the like.

Various embodiments of the user terminal according to the present invention may be applied to a cellular phone, a smart phone having wireless communication capability, a personal digital assistant (PDA) having wireless communication function, a wireless modem, a portable computer having a wireless communication function, A mobile unit incorporating such a combination of functions as well as an imaging appliance such as a digital camera, a gaming device with wireless communication capability, music storage and playback appliances with wireless communication capabilities, Internet appliances capable of wireless Internet access and browsing, But are not limited to, terminals.

FIG. 7 is a table summarizing information of files stored in the scale voice database according to the present invention.

The scales phonetic database according to the present invention includes twelve programs as shown in Fig. 7 for the absolute scales.

Each program is defined according to composition. Program 1 is C major key, program 2 is C # key, program 3 is D key, program 4 is D # key, program 5 is E key, program 6 is F key, Program # 7 corresponds to the F # key, Program # 8 to the G key, Program # 9 to the G # key, Program # 10 to the A key, Program # 11 to the A # key and Program # 12 to the B key.

In this case, if we say "da, la, ma, bar, sa, ga, me, da" in English, "C , D, E, F, G, A, B, C ".

The absolute musical name (command name) for each program included in the table shown in FIG. 7 is connected to a voice pronunciation file corresponding to each musical scale. The absolute scale related voice file according to the present invention is generated by recording voices (pronunciation and command height) as shown in FIG. 7 and includes 12 programs. At this time, the recorded sound range is repeated from the lowest to the highest sound that the real person can call. That is, the absolute scale-related voice file is human-voice-recorded data uttered so that the absolute scale of each composition is matched to the pitch of the absolute scale, from the lowest to the highest range of human utterances.

According to the present invention, in order to reproduce music using a scale, a program is selected according to the composition of the music. For example, in the case of a C major key, the program 1, the C # key in the program 2, and the D key in the program 3. If the music is a forged piece, it is considered as a major piece of music and is selected on the basis of the corresponding major. In other words, if the user depresses the third degree in the major axis, the key is forged. For example, the minor key (A minor key) can be regarded as a joining C major key.

When a program corresponding to the composition is selected, the related voice files corresponding to the absolute scale on the score are reproduced. For example, if " DEF " is indicated in turn on the musical score with respect to the musical piece as the D key (the major axis), as shown in FIG. 7, "Voice files are played in sequence. At this time, the voice of each file has not only the pronunciation corresponding to each musical scale but also the pitch corresponding to the corresponding musical scale. Further, according to the present invention, each voice file is reproduced in accordance with the length of each note on the score, that is, in accordance with the beat.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an operation of the music reproducing method according to the present invention.

In the following description of the embodiment, each step constituting the music reproducing method of the present invention can be understood as an operation performed in the corresponding component of the music reproducing apparatus of the present invention explained through FIG. 6, Steps should be limited to the function itself, which defines each step. That is, it should be noted that the subject of each step is not limited by the name of the constituent element exemplified by performing each step.

According to the music reproduction method of the present invention, when a user selects a music to be played, the music file of the selected music is analyzed (S810).

When the analysis of the score file is completed, the music is played based on the analyzed score and sound file (S820), and the score and the lyrics are displayed and provided to the user (S830).

In operation S840, when a command requesting switching to a commanded song is received in a situation where a lyrics song is played, the song is switched to commandment based on the musical scale database of the present invention in operation S850. Specifically, the command name song playing step may include a step of selecting a program suitable for the composition of the musical score, and sequentially reproducing the voice files corresponding to the absolute musical scale included in the program selected for each note included in the musical piece have.

In addition, if a request for a lyrics song is received in a state of being played in the command name song mode (S860), the song song mode is switched to play a song according to the score and the lyrics (S870).

In the steps S840 to S870 of changing the lyrics song mode and the command song mode according to the present invention, waiting and execution are repeated until the song ends (S880).

Although not shown in FIG. 8, in the music reproduction method according to the present invention, when a request for transposition is received, the corresponding program and the absolute musical scale associated with the program are changed according to the composition requested to be changed, And the like.

The musical reproduction method using musical scales according to the present invention can also be implemented as computer-readable program codes on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. For example, it includes ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Blu-ray, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage device and the like and also implemented in the form of a carrier wave .

The computer-readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system and stored and executed in computer readable code in a distributed manner. The functional program code for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention can be easily deduced by the programmers of the technical field of the present invention.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be possible.

100: performance control section 110: user input section
120: display part 130: performance part
140: score file parsing unit 200: Scale voice database
300: Music file database

Claims (9)

A scale voice database for storing an absolute scale for at least one composition-specific program and the absolute scale-related voice file;
A score file parser for analyzing a score file for the selected music piece and extracting information of the score file; And
And a performance control section for determining the composition of the music piece selected from the information of the score file, extracting an absolute scale matching the composition of the music piece from the scale voice database, and reproducing the audio file according to the extracted absolute scale scale,
Wherein the voice file according to the absolute scale includes voice data of human uttered according to the pronunciation and pitch of the absolute scale,
Wherein the at least one composition-specific program includes twelve different programs each having a different mute tone. delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the performance control unit comprises:
Wherein the music reproduction apparatus selects a program corresponding to the composition of the musical score and sequentially reproduces an audio file corresponding to an absolute musical scale included in the selected program for each musical sound included in the musical composition, . The method according to claim 1,
The absolute scale related voice file includes:
Wherein the musical tone data is human voice-recorded data uttered so that an absolute scale of each composition from the lowest to the highest possible range of human utterance matches the pitch of the absolute scale. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the performance control unit comprises:
And when the request for transcription is received, changes the corresponding program and the absolute musical scale associated with the program according to the composition requested to be changed, and reproduces the audio file according to the changed absolute scale. The method according to claim 1,
A music file database including at least one music file;
A performance unit for performing performance using a music file associated with the selected music piece among the at least one music files based on the extracted score file information; And
And a display unit for displaying the score file information extracted from the score file parsing unit. Storing an absolute scale for at least one composition-specific program and the absolute scale related voice file;
Analyzing a score file for the selected piece of music and extracting information of the score file;
Determining a composition of a piece of music selected from the information of the score file;
Extracting an absolute scale for at least one compositional program and at least one absolute scale for matching the composition of the music from the absolute scale related voice file; And
And playing back the extracted audio file according to at least one absolute scale,
Wherein the absolute scale-related voice file includes human voice data uttered according to the pronunciation and pitch of the absolute scale;
Wherein the at least one composition-specific program includes twelve different programs in which the treble is varied. The method of claim 7,
The absolute scale related voice file includes:
Wherein the voice data is human voice-recorded data that is uttered such that the absolute scale of each composition is matched to the pitch of the absolute scale, from the lowest pitch to the highest pitch of human utterance. delete

Images