DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR PERFORMANCE DATA BY USING QUERY INDICATING MUSICAL TONE GENERATION PATTERN, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To search for musical data related to an automatic accompaniment including a phrase configured of a musical tone pattern of which a degree of similarity to the pattern of an intended musical tone on a part specified by a user satisfies predetermined conditions.SOLUTION: A user inputs, in a rhythm input device 10, a rhythm pattern using an operation form of an operator corresponding to any part of a plurality of parts constituting automatic accompaniment data. An input rhythm pattern storage section 212 causes RAM to store an input rhythm pattern on the basis of a clock signal output by a bar line clock output section 211 and an input trigger data. A part specification section 213 specifies an object part from MIDI information according to the operator. A rhythm pattern search section 214 searches an automatic accompaniment DB 221 for automatic accompaniment data including a rhythm pattern that has a highest degree of similarity to the input rhythm pattern, on the specified part.