A formal language theory approach to music generation

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We investigate the suitability of applying some of the probabilistic and automatatheoretic ideas, that have been extremely successful in the areas ofspeech and natural language processing, to the area of musical style imitation.By using music written in a certain style as training data, parametersare calculated for (visible and hidden) Markov models (of mixed, higheror first order), in order to capture the musical style of the training data interms of mathematical models. These models are then used to imitate twoinstrument music in the trained style.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University