Automatic polyphonic music composition using the EMILE and ABL grammar inductors

David Ortega-Pacheco, Hiram Calvo

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Abstract

In this paper we present a method for automatic polyphonic music composition using the ABL and EMILE grammar inductors. To evaluate the performance of the EMILE and ABL engines we use a voting classification scheme based on TF.IDF weighting-we show a novel adaptation of the n-gram concept for music classification. We performed experiments with six musical MIDI collections from a different classical music composer each (Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Mozart and Haydn). For each composer we applied our method to obtain five new polyphonic music compositions, and then we tested the membership of the new compositions with regard to every composer. We found that new compositions have similar membership to the set of composer styles than natural compositions. We conclude that our method is capable of creating new, relatively original compositions in the same musical style of each author.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications - 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2008, Proceedings
Pages758-766
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2008 - Havana, Cuba
Duration: 9 Sep 200812 Sep 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5197 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2008
Country/TerritoryCuba
CityHavana
Period9/09/0812/09/08

Keywords

  • ABL grammar inductor
  • Automatic music composition
  • EMILE grammar inductor
  • Grammar induction
  • M-grams
  • TF.IDF weighting

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