TWI393118B - The representation, input method and search method of melody - Google Patents

Description

Method for expressing melody, input method and search method thereof

The invention relates to a method for expressing a melody, an input method and a searching method thereof, in particular, a scale bar is displayed intersecting on a horizontal reference line, and through different intersection positions, it can represent different scales and ranges, and has a display. Simple, easy to operate, easy to input, fast to search and high accuracy.

At present, the common way of expressing music melody is usually to indicate the position of the note directly on the staff, so as to be used for the identification or teaching of music melody.

The invention disclosed in the publication No. 201007710 of the Republic of China on February 16, 1999, "A method for editing and displaying visual intuitional musical symbols and musical scores", which includes: displaying a scale by a line spectrum, The position of the long-striped mark indicates the relative pitch, the length of the long-striped mark is displayed, and the long-sorted mark on the upper and lower sides of the long-length mark indicates the long-striped mark of the lyrics, a melody progress bar, and the pitch. The display switching symbol, the singer's point display selection symbol, and a set of changes with the melody, display the singer symbol and the score at any time, and provide the sound pitch and melody of the music in a visually intuitive manner at any time, so that the singer can sing. And the reference and control music and the singer's voice can be simultaneously presented on the screen, as visual ensemble music symbols and musical scores for chorus, self-learning and correction tools, editing and displaying reference and contrast and singer pitch The method of sound length. It mainly replaces seven notes such as Do to si with seven numbers from 1 to 7, and still does not deviate from the representation of the staff, so its input or display interface is relatively enlarged. And complicated, it is not easy for beginners to identify.

There is also the "Music Key Spectrum" of the Invention No. 200941422 published by the Republic of China on October 1, 1998. It is revealed that there is a grid, the vertical part is the height area of the sound, and the horizontal part is the length area of the sound, and The grid marks the dots to form a note for displaying the position of the beat and the duration of the sustain. However, in such a way, the input or presentation interface is still quite large, and it is still inconvenient to use.

In addition, most people today often hear the melody of the melody after hearing a short familiar melody, but the search engine on the Internet is not complete enough to search for music melody; therefore, there is the Republic of China on November 21, 1992. The disclosed patent No. 563038 "System and Method for Music Information Retrieval Based on Heterogeneous Platform Cluster Computing" discloses a rhythm signal acquisition program that allows a user to input a rhythm of a song through an electronic peripheral device. And inputting the rhythm of the song into a certain electronic data format; the data processing program takes out the intermediary information in the database and stores the same pending data format as the rhythm signal acquisition program; the song comparison program is based on the foregoing The data processing program obtains a distributed parallel data comparison to find the similarity of the data with all the songs in the song database; and the result output program is based on the similarity result of the comparison in the song comparison program, according to the similarity Sexuality, find out the songs in the song database that are most similar to the songs the user is looking for. In this method of searching, the user must sing a song or music in advance for comparison and comparison. For users with inaccurate temperaments, it is difficult to extract accurate songs or music for retrieval. Still not ideal in use.

Therefore, in view of the fact that the present melody representation method, input method and search method have the above-mentioned disadvantages, the present invention mainly provides a melody representation method, which is a representation method of a full-tone mode or a semi-tone mode, and is provided with a horizontal direction. a reference line on which at least one or more scale bars are displayed, the scale bars are arranged with a plurality of scale points and sound stages, and each scale point and sound stage represent different scales, and a scale point or tone stage with the reference Lines intersect, representing the corresponding scale.

The scale point of the above-mentioned full-tone mode includes a first scale point, a second scale point, a third scale point, and a fourth scale point arranged equidistantly, and the first tone is between the first scale point and the second scale point In the stage, the second pitch phase is between the second scale point and the third scale point, and the third sound stage is between the third scale point and the fourth scale point, and the first scale point represents the scale of the DO. The first sound stage represents a scale of RE, the second scale point represents a scale of MI, the second sound stage represents a scale of FA, the third scale point represents a scale of SOL, and the third sound stage represents a scale of LA, The fourth scale point represents the scale of SI.

The scale points of the semitone mode include a first scale point, a second scale point, a third scale point, a fourth scale point, a fifth scale point, a sixth scale point, and a seventh scale point, and the third scale point The fourth scale points are connected, and the rest are arranged equidistantly. The first scale stage is between the first scale point and the second scale point, and the second stage is second between the second scale point and the third scale point. In the sound stage, the third sound stage is between the fourth scale point and the fifth scale point, and the fourth sound stage is between the fifth scale point and the sixth scale point, and between the sixth scale point and the seventh scale point Then, it is the fifth sound stage, and the first scale point represents the scale of DO, the second scale point represents the scale of RE, the third scale point represents the scale of MI, and the fourth scale point represents FA. The scale, the fifth scale point represents the scale of SOL, the sixth scale point represents the scale of LA, the seventh scale point represents the scale of SI, and the first stage of sound represents the pitch of the sound [liter DO] 〕, the second sound stage represents the commercial sound (L), and the third sound stage represents the angular sound [L FA], the fourth stage is represented by the accent (liter SOL), and the fifth stage is represented by the feather (L).

The scale bar is extended upwardly to have a sound field point, the sound field point represents a sound field, and a negative value is filled in the sound field point to represent a low octave range, and 0 is a middle octave range, and a positive value is filled in. Represented as a high octave.

The ruler is provided with a ruler, and the distance between each scale bar on the ruler represents a long or short tone of different beats.

The present invention can also be a melody input method implemented by the above melody representation method, which is provided with an input interface, which is provided with a vernier bar, a mobile cursor and a pop-up menu, and displays a horizontal reference on the input interface. A line and its intersecting scale bar, the reference line is controlled by a slider bar, and the position of the scale bar intersecting the reference line is moved by a moving cursor.

The control method of the cursor interface, the mobile cursor and the pop-up menu of the input interface is controlled by one of a mouse, a keyboard, a touch, a voice control, a brain wave or a combination thereof.

The distance of each scale bar on the reference line is adjusted by a mobile cursor.

The scale bar is provided with a sound field point, and the input 0, positive value or negative value is selected in the sound field point of the scale bar via the pop-up menu.

By pressing the range point as a choice of switching the full-tone mode or the semi-tone mode, the number in the range is displayed in black on a white background, and the symbol is in the full-tone mode, and the number in the range is displayed in white on a black background. In semitone mode.

The invention can also be a melody searching method implemented by the above melody input method, which is to establish a song database in advance, and the song data built in the song database is digitized into an inner code mode, and a search engine is set up. a server, the search engine server is connected to the song database, and the search engine server is connected to the Internet, and the input interface is connected to the search engine server through the Internet through an input interface, and the input interface is utilized. In the middle of the cursor bar, the mobile cursor and the pop-up menu input search conditions, display the position and distance of each scale bar on a reference line, and input a scale of the search melody, and upload to the search engine server, the search engine servo After receiving the melody, the device compares with the song data in the song database. When a melody in any song in the song material is the same as the input melody entered, the song is downloaded. Information.

The above song database is to establish information about the lyricist, composer, singer, lyrics, publisher, song year and album name for each song.

The invention has the following effects:

1. The present invention utilizes a horizontal reference line to intersect a scale bar, and with its different intersection positions and distances, it can easily display the scales and long and short sounds it represents, and has a sound field point for displaying the sound range. You can completely discard the staves, so the display is quite simple, and the operation is easy, suitable for beginners.

2. The invention cooperates with an input interface, that is, the melody of the song can be conveniently input, and the input time can be greatly saved.

3. In the search, the invention only needs to input a short melody, and can compare with the song database, and immediately display the search result, not only the search time is short, but also the accuracy is quite high.

(1) ‧ ‧ baseline

(2) ‧‧‧ scale bar

(21)‧‧‧first scale point

(22)‧‧‧second scale point

(23) ‧‧‧ third scale point

(24) ‧‧‧ fourth scale point

(25) ‧ ‧ first sound stage

(26) ‧‧‧second stage

(27) ‧ ‧ third stage

(28) ‧ ‧ phono points

(1A) ‧ ‧ baseline

(2A) ‧‧‧ scale bar

(21A) ‧‧‧ first scale point

(22A)‧‧‧second scale point

(23A) ‧ ‧ third scale point

(24A) ‧‧‧ fourth scale point

(25A)‧‧‧ fifth scale point

(26A)‧‧‧ sixth scale point

(27A)‧‧‧ seventh scale point

(21B) ‧ ‧ first sound stage

(22B) ‧ ‧ second stage

(23B) ‧ ‧ third stage

(24B) ‧ ‧ fourth sound stage

(25B) ‧ ‧ fifth stage

(28A) ‧ ‧ phono points

(29A) ‧ ‧ rule

(3) ‧‧‧Input interface

(31) ‧ ‧ vernier

(32)‧‧‧Mobile cursors

(33)‧‧‧Pop-up menu

(4) ‧‧‧ song database

(5)‧‧‧Search engine server

The first figure is a schematic diagram of a reference line and a scale bar in the full-tone mode in the melody representation method of the present invention.

The second figure is an enlarged schematic view of the intersection of the reference line and the scale bar in the full-tone mode in the melody representation method of the present invention.

The third figure is a schematic diagram of a melody composed of a reference line and a scale bar in the full-tone mode in the melody representation method of the present invention.

The fourth figure is a schematic diagram of a melody composed of a reference line and a scale bar in the semitone mode in the melody representation method of the present invention.

The fifth figure is a schematic diagram of inputting a scale bar on a reference line through an input interface in the melody input method of the present invention.

The sixth figure is a schematic diagram of the input into the melody through the input interface in the melody input method of the present invention.

The seventh figure is a simple schematic diagram of the melody search comparison using the input interface with the search engine server and the song database in the melody search method of the present invention.

The present invention is a melody representation method, which includes: a full-tone mode and a semi-tone mode, The mid-tone mode is also called the semi-sonic mode. Please refer to the first figure, which is provided with a horizontal reference line (1). The reference line (1) vertically intersects to display a number of linear scale bars (2). And each scale bar (2) is provided with a plurality of scale points and sound stages, and the number of the scale points and the sound stages are different according to the full-tone mode or the semi-tone mode, and each scale point and sound stage The system represents different scales.

In the full-tone mode, as shown in the second figure, each scale bar (2) is arranged equidistantly from bottom to top with four first-order point points (21) and second-order points in the form of dots. (22), a third scale point (23) and a fourth scale point (24), and between the first scale point (21) and the second scale point (22) is a first sound stage (25), Between the second scale point (22) and the third scale point (23) is the second sound stage (26), and between the third scale point (23) and the fourth scale point (24) is the third sound stage ( 27), wherein the first scale point (21) located at the bottom of the scale bar (2) represents the scale of the DO, the first sound stage (25) represents the scale of the RE, and the second scale point (22) represents the scale. For the scale of MI, the second sound stage (26) represents the scale of FA, the third scale point (23) represents the scale of SOL, and the third stage represents the scale of LA, the fourth scale point (24) ) is represented by the scale of SI, and the fourth scale point (24) is further extended with a range point (28), and the range of points (28) can be filled with negative numbers below -1, -2... The representative is the low octave range, filled with 0 for the middle octave, filled with +1, +2... The above positive value represents a high octave range, and the number in the range is displayed in black on white, and it is represented in full-tone mode, and the first scale point of each scale bar (2) (21) a second scale point (22), a third scale point (23), a fourth scale point (24), a first tone stage (25), a second tone stage (26), or a third tone stage (27) and When the reference lines (1) intersect, they represent the corresponding scales, and the distance between each scale bar (2) represents the long or short sounds of different beats.

In use, as shown in the third figure, the scale bar (2) and the reference line can be adjusted according to the scale of the different melody, and the scale bar (2) corresponding to the scale is adjusted on the reference line (1). (1) The position of the intersection, in which the first sound point (28) of the first scale bar (2) from the left is filled with +1, and its first sound The order point (21) intersects with the reference line (1), that is, the DO scale representing the high octave range, and the range point (28) of the second scale bar (2) is filled with -1, and the third scale thereof Point (23) intersects the reference line (1), which represents the SOL scale of the lower octave, while the third scale (2) has the zero (08) filled with zero and its third stage ( 27) intersecting with the reference line (1), that is, representing the LA scale of the middle octave range, and the distance between the second scale bar (2) and the third scale bar (2) is longer, which means the first The two scales SOL are long sounds with a large number of beats, and the other scales DO and LA are short sounds with a small number of beats. Thus, the position where the scale bar (2) intersects the reference line (1) and the sound field point can be used ( 28) The 0, positive or negative value filled in and the distance between each scale bar (2) can easily display the scale, range and length of the melody.

The second mode of the present invention is a semitone mode, as shown in the fourth figure, which is provided with a horizontal reference line (1A) which vertically intersects to display a plurality of linear scale bars ( 2A), each scale bar (2A) is arranged from bottom to top with seven dot-shaped first scale points (21A), second scale points (22A), third scale points (23A), and fourth. a scale point (24A), a fifth scale point (25A), a sixth scale point (26A), and a seventh scale point (27A), wherein the third scale point (23A) is connected to the fourth scale point (24A). And the rest are arranged equidistantly, and between the first scale point (21A) and the second scale point (22A), the first sound stage (21B), the second scale point (22A) and the third scale point (23A) is the second sound stage (22B), and between the fourth scale point (24A) and the fifth scale point (25A) is the third sound stage (23B), the fifth scale point (25A) and The fourth pitch stage (24B) is between the sixth scale point (26A), and the fifth sound stage (25B) is between the sixth scale point (26A) and the seventh scale point (27A), wherein the scale stage is located (2A) The lowest scale point (21A) at the bottom represents the scale of DO, the second The order point (22A) represents the scale of RE, the third scale point (23A) represents the scale of MI, the fourth scale point (24A) represents the scale of FA, and the fifth scale point (25A) represents The scale of SOL, the sixth scale point (26A) represents the scale of LA, the seventh scale point (27A) represents the scale of SI, and the first stage of sound (21B) represents the tone of the palace [liter DO] The second sound stage (22B) represents the commercial sound (L), and the third sound stage (23B) The representative is the horn sound [liter FA], the fourth sound stage (24B) is the accent (liter SOL), the fifth stage (25B) is the feather (L), and the seventh level (27A). Further extending upwards is provided with a sound field point (28A). In the sound field point (28A), a negative value number below -1 is represented as a low octave range, and 0 is filled as a medium octave range, and a + is filled in A positive value of 1 or more represents a high octave range, and the number in the range is displayed in white on a black background, and represents a semitone mode, and the first scale point (21A) of each scale bar (2A) Second scale point (22A), third scale point (23A), fourth scale point (24A), fifth scale point (25A), sixth scale point (26A), seventh scale point (27A), When the first tone phase (21B), the second tone phase (22B), the third tone phase (23B), the fourth tone phase (24B), and the fifth tone phase (25B) intersect the reference line (1), it represents Issue its corresponding scale.

In addition, the present invention may be in the full-tone mode or the semi-tone mode, and the ruler (2A) may be further provided with a ruler (29A), and the intersection of each scale bar (2A) and the reference line (1A) is Located on the ruler (29A), the size of the ruler (29A) is used to help clearly determine the distance between each scale bar (2), such as each pitch on the ruler (29A). The unit represents a beat, so each scale bar (2A) is on the scale (29A), which can represent the long or short sound of different beats respectively; and the above-mentioned full-tone mode or semi-tone mode of the present invention, They can be used separately or in combination with each other, so they are suitable for beginners, experts, or people with a certain foundation of music, so they are excellent in versatility.

The present invention is a melody input method implemented in conjunction with the above melody representation method. As shown in the fifth and sixth figures, the present embodiment uses a full-tone mode as an input description, and an input interface (3) is provided. The input interface (3) can be any electronic display device or a screen thereof, and the control interface (3) can be controlled by a mouse, keyboard, touch, voice control or brain wave control method (31). a mobile cursor (32) and a pop-up menu (33). The input interface (3) displays a horizontal reference line (1), which can be based on the length of the desired melody. The cursor bar (31) controls the length of the reference line (1), and then uses the point selection method on the reference line (1) a scale bar (2) for inputting a scale bar (2) of the same number of scales in the melody, and moving the scale bar (2) at a position intersected on the reference line (1) through the movable cursor (32) The first scale point (21), the second scale point (22), the third scale point (23), the fourth scale point (24), the first sound stage (25), and the second sound of the scale bar (2) The position after the phase (26) or the third sound phase (27) intersects perpendicularly with the reference line (1) can correspond to the scale of each of the DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, and SI in the melody. And the sound of the scale can be immediately sent out for the user to confirm whether the input scale bar (2) is correct, and according to the long and short sounds of the melody scale, each scale bar is adjusted by the mobile cursor (32) (2) The distance on the reference line (1), such as when adjusting the distance of any scale bar (2), all the scale bars (2) on the same side will move synchronously together, so as to maintain the original scale bars (2) Set the distance between the two, and finally select 0 or a positive or negative value in the range point (28) of the scale bar (2) via the pop-up menu (33), so that the melody can be matched. The scale is based low octave, the octave or octave range, thus, the range and through the pressing point (28) as the mode selection switch or the whole-tone chromatic modes, thus, you can complete the entire input melody.

The present invention is a melody searching method implemented in accordance with the melody representation method and the melody input method, as shown in the seventh figure, and referring to the fifth and sixth figures, which is to establish a song database in advance (4). ), the song data built in the song database (4) is digitized into an inner code mode, and the lyricist, composer, singer, lyrics, publisher, song year and For the album name and other related information, a search engine server (5) is set up, the search engine server (5) is connected to the song database (4), and the search engine server (5) is also connected to the Internet. The network, if the user only remembers a certain melody in a song, can use the input interface (3) of each user's electronic display device connected to the Internet through the input interface (3) In the middle of the cursor bar (31), the mobile cursor (32) and the pop-up menu (33) input search conditions, that is, display the position and distance of each scale bar (2) on the reference line (1), thereby inputting Search for the scale of the melody and upload it to the search via the Internet. Engine server (5), the search After receiving the melody, the search engine server (5) compares the song data in the song database (4). When a melody of any song in the song data is the same as the input melody, The related information such as the lyricist, composer, singer, lyrics, publisher, song year and album name of the song can be downloaded to the user's electronic display device, so that the melody search can be performed quickly and accurately.

However, the above description is only one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the scope of the patent application and the contents of the description of the present invention are not limited thereto. All should still fall within the scope of protection covered by the scope of the patent application of the present invention.

(1) ‧ ‧ baseline

(2) ‧‧‧ scale bar

(21)‧‧‧first scale point

(22)‧‧‧second scale point

(23) ‧‧‧ third scale point

(24) ‧‧‧ fourth scale point

(25) ‧ ‧ first sound stage

(26) ‧‧‧second stage

(27) ‧ ‧ third stage

(28) ‧ ‧ phono points

Claims (12)

A melody representation method is a representation method of a full-tone mode or a semi-tone mode, and is provided with a horizontal reference line on which at least one scale bar is displayed, and the scale bar is arranged with a plurality of scales The point and sound stages, and each of the scale points and the sound stage represent different scales, and intersect with the reference line at any scale point or sound stage, indicating that the corresponding scale is emitted. The melody representation method according to the first aspect of the invention, wherein the scale point of the full-tone mode comprises a first scale point, a second scale point, a third scale point, and a fourth scale point arranged equidistantly, the first The first sound stage is between the first scale point and the second scale point, the second sound stage is between the second scale point and the third scale point, and the third level is between the third scale point and the fourth scale point. In the sound phase, the first scale point is represented as a scale of DO, the first sound stage represents a scale of RE, the second scale point represents a scale of MI, the second sound stage represents a scale of FA, and the third scale point represents a scale of FA. For the scale of SOL, the third pitch phase represents the scale of LA, and the fourth scale point represents the scale of SI. The melody representation method according to claim 1, wherein the semitone mode has a first scale point, a second scale point, a third scale point, a fourth scale point, a fifth scale point, and a a sixth scale point and a seventh scale point, wherein the third scale point is connected to the fourth scale point, and the rest are arranged equidistantly, and the first tone stage is between the first scale point and the second scale point, The second pitch phase is between the second scale point and the third scale point, and the third sound stage is between the fourth scale point and the fifth scale point, and the fifth scale point and the sixth scale point are In the four-tone phase, the fifth pitch phase is between the sixth scale point and the seventh scale point, and the first scale point represents the scale of DO, and the second scale point represents the scale of the RE, and the third scale point It is represented by the scale of MI, the fourth scale point represents the scale of FA, and the fifth scale point represents SOL. The scale, the sixth scale point represents the scale of LA, the seventh scale point represents the scale of SI, and the first sound stage represents the gong sound [liter DO], and the second sound stage represents the commercial sound [升 RE], the third sound stage is represented by the horn sound [liter FA], the fourth sound stage is represented by the vocal sound (liter SOL), and the fifth sound stage is represented by the feather sound [L]. The melody representation method of claim 2, wherein the scale bar extends upwardly to provide a sound field point, wherein the sound field point represents a sound field, and a negative value is filled in the sound field point to represent a low octave range. Fill in 0 for the middle octave and fill in the positive value for the high octave. The melody representation method according to claim 4, wherein the reference line is provided with a ruler, and the distance between each scale bar on the ruler represents a long or short tone of different beat numbers. A melody input method implemented in accordance with the melody representation method described in claim 1 is characterized in that an input interface is provided, and the input interface is provided with a vernier bar, a mobile cursor and a pop-up menu, and displays a horizontal direction on the input interface. The reference line and its intersecting scale bar, the reference line is controlled by the cursor bar, and the position of the scale bar intersecting the reference line is moved by the mobile cursor. The melody input method according to the sixth aspect of the patent application, wherein the control panel of the input interface, the mobile cursor and the pop-up menu are controlled by one of a mouse, a keyboard, a touch, a voice control, and a brain wave. Controlled by the way it is combined. The melody input method according to claim 7, wherein the distance of each scale bar on the reference line is adjusted by a mobile cursor. The melody input method according to claim 7, wherein the scale bar is provided with a sound field point, and the input 0, positive value or negative value is selected in the sound field point of the scale bar via the pop-up menu. The melody input method according to claim 9, wherein the sound field is pressed In order to switch the selection of the full-tone mode or the semi-tone mode, the number in the range is displayed in black on a white background, and the symbol is in the full-tone mode, and the number in the range is white on a black background, which represents a semitone mode. A melody searching method implemented in accordance with the melody input method described in claim 6 of the patent application scope, wherein a song database is pre-established, and the song data built in the song database is digitized into an inner code mode, and a a search engine server that is connected to the song database, and the search engine server is connected to the Internet, and uses an input interface to connect to the search engine server through the Internet. Enter the search condition in the input bar, the mobile cursor and the pop-up menu to display the position and distance of each scale bar on a reference line, and input a scale of the search melody and upload it to the search engine server, the search After receiving the melody, the engine server compares with the song data in the song database. When a melody in any song in the song data is the same as the input search melody, the download will The information of the first song. The melody searching method according to claim 11, wherein the song database is configured to establish information about a lyricist, a composer, a singer, a lyrics, a publisher, a song year, and an album name for each song.