Melody type

Abstract: Style and melody types in the comparative folk music research A comparative study of folk music is relevant from the aspect of both the style and the melody types. Style is specified as a complex of musical features and determined by their quality and structure. We may define national, regional and historical styles, genre peculiarities, performing styles etc. Style as a complex phenomenon is related to a complex of causes while in certain causal relations different factors may dominate. Alongside with historical, regional and functional factors style peculiarities are determined by the structure of language. Thus, the musical form of Estonian and Balto-Finnic runo-song tunes, especially the length of the basic structural unit, shows foremost the stage of historical development, while the length of the melody has a strong positive correlation with the melodic range (Ruutel 1986). In our case the horisontal as well as vertical widening of song tunes was mainly parallel. Deviations from such a general regularity seem to result primarily from the peculiarities of the function and the genre of a song. The melody-movement is particularly related to the speech intonation, at least in more ancient tune-layers. Rhythm and some melody attributes may be conditioned by the performance which in its turn is related to the genre and function of the song (e.g. the North-Estonian swing-song tunes with their very specific rhythmic and melodic structure). In actual development of folk music all the factors influencing the genesis and evolution of musical phenomena intertwine or mix and any music forms a symbiosis of them all. Beside the study of style, melody types as phenomenal units of folk music constitute a separate aspect of research in folk music studies. All folklore phenomena, including melodies, disseminate as variants in space and time. A tune type forms of a complex of its variants (tune samples) united by a common content and the basic qualities of form (for details see: Ruutel 1986). Its basic quality is expressed in the common invariant which as a rule is preserved in the samples of one and the same melody type.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for matching conventional images with karaoke melodies in real time A song requested each time corresponds to different images and is rich in contents and interests, and costs of the karaoke operators are reduced The technical scheme is characterized by acquiring a great number of karaoke songs and MTVs thereof and establishing a scene picture library at the sametime; learning melody characteristics of the karaoke songs with different melody types by a machine learning algorithm; differentiating a video image library of an MTV corresponding to different melody characteristics and contrasting the relational degree between pictures in the scene picture library and the video image library of the MTV so as to establish a picture library which corresponds to the melody type and needs playing During the playing of the songs, the pictures in the picture library which corresponds to the melody characteristics and needs playing are played in real time according to the melody characteristics of the songs played

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly sing together even in the case where contribution data acquired for the first time are reproduced for the first timeSOLUTION: The present invention includes: a control step S5 of acquiring contribution data in which contribution audio data and contribution video data of a chorus partner synchronously with predetermined music; a control step S10 of playing the predetermined music and reproducing the contribution data synchronously with the predetermined music; a control step S100 of analyzing the distinction of a melody type interval and the presence/absence of voices in the contribution audio data for each melody type interval correspondingly to time-sequential proceeding of the contribution data before the reproduction; a control step S15 of displaying lyrics of the predetermined music with a lyric telop in a different display mode on the basis of the presence/absence of voices in the contribution audio data analyzed for each melody type interval synchronously with the music being reproduced; a control step S20 of displaying a mesh pattern while overlapping a background of the lyric telop; and a control step S25 of performing scroll display correspondingly to the time-sequential proceeding of th music

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a melody type water pressure massage machine capable of imparting variation to a treatment pattern with music and performing effective massage by sounding music and giving massage treatment at the same time. SOLUTION: In the water pressure massage machine 1 provided with a control part 7, a pump 6, a nozzle 4 and a nozzle moving mechanism 5, etc., a storage device 28 for storing data relating to treatment and a music reproducing device 31 are additionally installed. The storage device 28 is provided with a music storage function 32 for storing the music and a pattern storage function 33 for storing treatment pattern data, and two or more pieces of the music and two or more pieces of the treatment pattern data are stored in pairs. In the melody type water pressure massage machine, for each piece name of the music to be reproduced, the movement of the nozzle 4 and/or a jetting pressure to the nozzle 4 is operated under a prescribed treatment pattern corresponding to the music piece name. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI