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  Morpheus music notation systemUSPTO Application #: 20070044638Title: 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. (end of abstract)
Agent: Our Pal Asija Asija House - Shelton, CT, US Inventor: Mark Patrick Egan USPTO Applicaton #: 20070044638 - Class: 084483200 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070044638. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
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 count to 100. The traditional Musical Treble & Bass Clefs are combined with two additional Clefs referred to as the Leda Clef (Left Hand) & the Rama Clef (Right Hand). Both the Leda & Rama Clefs contain five lines as is the case in traditional music Clefs. The fingers are given letters i.e., A, B, C, D, E, (Left Hand) & F, G, H, I, J (Right Hand). These letters are then applied to both these Clefs and the use of the Butterfly Effect in regards to how humans read literature in general is then functional. From the music sheet the numbers of the exact keys are used in both Clefs i.e., C3=28 where this is the 28th key on the classical piano. [0004] Using the notation the student recognises the numbers on the Clefs in reference to the piano and uses the correct fingers with the correct note no matter how complex the music is. The method also leaves the students with the option that they never have to learn any traditional musical theory of any level. [0005] The morpheus notation system of this invention is adaptable to every single musical instrument (including all key, string, wind and percussion instruments) within the audio spectrum and makes it possible for children, adults, elderly and the blind to learn a musical instrument. [0006] Problems with prior art music notation and teaching systems are as follows. [0007] a) Complex & Cumbersome [0008] b) Not Intuitive [0009] c) Expensive [0010] d) Lack user friendliness for teacher and student [0011] e) Tedious to teach and learn [0012] f) Not conducive to self-teaching [0013] g) Do not help create master musicians let alone pushing the envelope [0014] Another problem with prior art music notation systems is that it can take seven to eight years for children to familiarise themselves with traditional notation. The theory revolves around the Bass & Treble Clefs which contain 5 lines on each stave and symbols on these lines & spaces represent the notes to play. Music timing involves crotchets, quavers, semibreves etc., to name a few and notes that then create chords are laid out on the staves in a complex method. Then you have sharps, naturals, flats to understand. All in all standard notation is just one big algebraic equation and to learn it requires years of practice. [0015] For hundreds of years many people worldwide have not bothered to undertake the chore of playing an instrument, or have undertaken the chore of playing an instrument, but failed to continue with it for one solitary reason. This reason is described further with regards to the inconvenience with the Music Notation System in place today and are as follows. [0016] The music notation system of prior art was created thousands of years ago by highly intelligent a person, which was absolute genius at the time, where music was broken down into stages in which people could learn to sing or play an instrument, under a worldwide standard method. Unfortunately, the consequence of this, was that because it was created by highly intelligent people, it required highly intelligent people to understand it. People had to start at a young age to learn music which then took eight or nine years to even gain the standard of being a master of a particular instrument. [0017] The world today does not revolve around children or in general people learning an instrument. Unfortunately, children and people are so wrapped up in the computer technology of today i.e., video games, cinema, computer games, hand held games and on line gaming etc, that many people will never experience playing a musical instrument and will grow up in a non-expressive & monotonous society. And yet when they become teenagers, the first thing they do when you have your Pop Idol or Pop stars shows on TV, is queue in their thousands outside buildings in order to become a pop star. All a person has to do is look at these shows, to see the worldwide interest in them. [0018] All it really is though is taking advantage of young teenagers, who just fancy the quick method to get on TV. When they get there, they are so overwhelmed by the status of being a pop star that they can't cope with it and the artists drift off into the night, never to be seen again. Bands nowadays are not staying as bands because society today conveys that everything we do has to happen instantly. Music is no longer an enjoyable experience for them and the sad thing, is that the competition within musical artists today is disastrous. [0019] Because of the ever increasing idea today within the record industry that a `quick buck` is more important than breeding talent, they constantly go back in time and cover a song or tune and re-release it. I blame the original artists of these songs for this recurrent trend for if they didn't give permission to record companies, the record companies would not be able to re-release these famous songs. [0020] Music today has no innovation behind it and if we were to depend on classically trained musicians to come up with new ways to play instruments, we would be waiting a long time. For they get so wrapped up in learning the traditional musical theory of today that they cannot and will not step outside of it. Some of these brilliant musicians fail to even have the ability to play simple melodies in pubs & restaurants and in general life, without reading from music sheets. Even the music they systematically learn for ten & twenty years, still cannot be played without traditional musical notation in front of them. It used to be the case back in the 80s, 90s that only R&B music would use previously released music to come up with rhythms, chorus lines & hook lines, but these days every single genre of music is using this method, which really doesn't say much for the artists around today. [0021] The above topics covered are just some of the disadvantages of traditional music notation of today. To define my creation I will reference to the disadvantages listed above to help you understand how revolutionary the idea is and how it will change the way the world learns musical instruments. Continue reading... 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