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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)263-274
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Volume51
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2010

Bibliographical note

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

Funding

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

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation (NSF)ITR-0325063
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering0325063

    Keywords

    • Decision-theoretic planning
    • Harmony generation
    • Markov decision processes

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • Applied Mathematics

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