Third International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music (WEDELMUSIC'03)
Computer-aided Composition from Melodic Contours and Tabular Constraints
Leeds, United Kingdom
September 15-September 17
ISBN: 0-7695-1935-0
The goal of this work is to develop a framework of intelligent computer-aided composition based on melodic contours and tabular constraints. Melodic contour is derived from whistling input as a MIDI controller. Tabular constraint is a flexible representation for describing, processing, and synthesizing musical structure of MIDI format music. Based on a given melodic contour, there are two main areas of computer-aided composition to be treated: melody variation and harmonization. We develop a musical plan representation called tabular constraints to allow the interactive experimentation for those two composition activities. A set of transformation operators is available for automatic composition. We have demonstrated that the integration of melody transcription and tabular constraints can allow a user to easily explore his potential in melody creation and harmonization.
Citation:
Hung-Che Shen, Chungnan Lee, "Computer-aided Composition from Melodic Contours and Tabular Constraints," wedelmusic, pp.101, Third International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music (WEDELMUSIC'03), 2003