Decision-theoretic harmony: A first step

Liangrong Yi; Judy Goldsmith

doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2009.06.014

Decision-theoretic harmony: A first step

Liangrong Yi, Judy Goldsmith

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel harmony generation method based on decision-theoretic planning. We are the first to model music generation using Markov decision processes (MDPs). We give a proof of concept for this approach by using MDP planning to generate four-part harmony, given the melody or soprano line. Our initial results show feasibility, and show the variance possible, depending on the choice of reward functions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	263-274
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2009.06.014
State	Published - Jan 2010

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Funding Information:
This work is partially supported by NSF Grant ITR-0325063.

Keywords

Decision-theoretic planning
Harmony generation
Markov decision processes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Theoretical Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Applied Mathematics

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