Method and apparatus for displaying multiple images of musical score data on screen of display

Abstract

A musical score display apparatus is installed in a grand piano to display multiple images of pages of a musical score of a prescribed musical tune on the screen. Each of the multiple images of the musical score is divided into the prescribed number of sections, each of which corresponds to at least a prescribed length of a staff for arranging notes in musical notation and which are vertically arranged at different positions on the screen. In addition, different background colors are assigned to odd-numbered pages and even-numbered pages of the musical score respectively. The multiple images of the musical score are automatically and sequentially changed over section by section on the screen, so that the background colors are correspondingly changed over section by section on the screen. Herein, the images of the musical score are sequentially changed over section by section without changing the positions of the sections being fixed on the screen. Alternatively, it is possible to vertically scroll the images of the musical score section by section on the screen. Incidentally, each section is changed over in content and background color upon a lapse of a prescribed time, which is preset in advance in accordance with musical performance or progression of the section. Hence, the user is able to visually recognize changeovers of the multiple images of the musical score on the screen with ease by detecting changeovers of the background colors being respectively assigned to consecutive pages of the musical score.