Method of Presenting a Piece of Music to a User of an Electronic Device

摘要

A method of presenting music to a user of an electronic device comprises the step of providing score data representing the musical score of the piece of music in a graphical representation, audio data representing a recording of the piece of music, and music data representing one or more parts of parts of the piece of music in a digital format such as MIDI or MusicXML. The music data representing a part of the music that has been selected by the user is transformed into part sound signals using a sound generator. The part sound signals and audio sound signals are merged so as to obtain a merged sound signal in which the piece of music as represented by the music data file and by the audio data file are synchronized. Finally, and simultaneously, the sound of the piece of music using the merged sound signal is played audibly, the musical score is displayed on a display, and a sub-portion of the musical score corresponding to a passage of the piece of music which is presently audible is highlighted on the display.

主权项

1. A method of presenting a piece of music to a user of an electronic device, said method comprising the following steps:
a) providing the following data files to the electronic device:
a score data file containing score data representing the musical score of the piece of music in a graphical representation, wherein the musical score comprises a plurality of parts,an audio data file containing audio data representing the piece of music as played by musicians in a format in which sampled analog sound signals are encoded,a music data file containing music data representing at least one of the plurality of parts of the piece of music in a digital format in which pitch and duration of sounds are encoded, b) allowing a user to select one of the parts that shall be acoustically highlighted when audibly playing the piece of music; c) transforming the music data, which represent the part that has been selected by the user in step b), into part sound signals using a sound generator; d) producing audio sound signals on the basis of the audio data; e) merging the part sound signals and the audio sound signals so as to obtain a merged sound signal in which the piece of music as represented by the music data file and the piece of music as represented by the audio data file are synchronized; f) simultaneously
audibly playing the sound of the piece of music using the merged sound signal,displaying at least a portion of the musical score on a display andhighlighting on the display a sub-portion of the musical score that corresponds to a passage of the piece of music which is presently audible.