Morpheus music notation system

Abstract

Devices, methods and system for a morpheus music notation system adapted for key, string, wind and percussion instruments for ease of teaching and learning music intuitively. Intuitive morpheus music notation system creates a simple environment revolving around numbers and letters to enable people of all ages of any race or colour whether they are with sight or without to learn any musical instrument. The idea relates to all instruments, wind, brass, stringed, bowed, percussion, keyboard, unusual global instruments, organ & electronic instruments. Also relates to a set of hand movements performed by conductors of music.

Description

RELATED DOCUMENT [0001] This is a divisional application divided from Ser. No. 11 / 016,438 filed on Dec. 20, 2004 by the same inventor Mark Patrick Egan bearing the same title, “Morpheus Music Notation System” for further prosecution of rejected claims in the office action of Aug. 10, 2006.BACKGROUND [0002] This invention relates generally to the art of music. More particularly it relates to the art of teaching and learning of music through a simplified music notation system. Even more particularly it relates to a morpheus music notation system adapted for key, string, wind and percussion instruments for ease of teaching and learning music intuitively. Unlike prior art bottom up notation systems, morpheus system is top down, which is intuitive and even conventional in the western languages. THE PROBLEM [0003] All musical instruments available today pivot around the audio spectrum of the 88 keys on a classical piano. From a primary age children systematically learn the alphabet and to...

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Benefits of technology

[0077] 3. Another objective behind this new type of notation is that people learn instantly exactly what fingers to use in the butterfly effect when taking up an instrument and the window of creativity continues because of no requirement to ever learn standard musical theory of any level.

[0104] Other objectives of this invention reside in its simplicity, elegance of design, ease of manufacture, service and use and even aesthetics as will become apparent from the following brief description of the drawings and the detailed description of the concept embodiment.

Problems solved by technology

However, Mahoney is creating more symbols to indicate sharps, naturals, flats, semibreves, quavers etc and while the method separates both the Treble & Bass Clefs there is no structure for the student to follow with traditional type symbols being just substituted with new symbols.

There is no reference to what fingers are to be used to play these specific notes and difficulty in what specific notes to be played is also evident.

The method is very similar to traditional notation and proves equally complex when reading the notation.

The structure is very complex and with regard to complex pieces of music is not manageable or useful.

The following can be seen as several disadvantages to this method of teaching music to people.

The staff line separates the left and right hand but the way the music is depicted above and below the line is very difficult to follow as there doesn't seem to be any solid structure around the numbers.

As an example in primary school children reading from a blackboard without the ruled concept it would be very difficult for children to follow.

Even adults would find the method difficult to follow.

This is a major disadvantage because the teacher / tutor is still part of the student learning process so this leads to an age old problem ‘if you have a dreadful teacher / tutor you will have a dreadful student’.

This in a sense puts a limit on what the student can learn and multiple octaves especially those used in classical music would require to learn many sets of numbers and depict them on the piano.

Unfortunately none of the prior art devices singly or even in combination provide for all of the objectives as established by the inventor for this system as enumerated below.

Unfortunately none of the prior art devices singly or even in combination provide all of the features established by the inventor for this system as enumerated below.

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