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Musical Expression in Automated Composition of Phrases

dc.contributor.authorMcLintock, Brian Thomasen
dc.contributor.authorRoach, John W.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-19T14:37:12Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-19T14:37:12Zen
dc.date.issued1987en
dc.description.abstractMusic composed by computers has always been lacking in "musical" qualities: mood, emotional expression, and a sense of purpose or goal. A musical expert system called EMOTER is the first attempt to address these important musical aspects. EMOTER receives as input a list of moods (e.g., happy, lively) and generates melodic passages intended to evoke those moods in an organized, coherent fashion. EMOTER composes the basic units of music called phrases. Results with EMOTER are excellent. Some of the musical phrases generated from a mood-specification are comparable to music that a reasonably talented composer might produce. More theory is needed, however, before the full complexities of human-composed music are sufficiently captured in code for EMOTER to pass a Turing test in music composition.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000081/en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000081/01/TR-87-34.pdfen
dc.identifier.trnumberTR-87-34en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/20289en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofHistorical Collection(Till Dec 2001)en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titleMusical Expression in Automated Composition of Phrasesen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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