Re: Modeling musical beginning

[Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic <elsonidoq@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, Thank you!

I'll try to get that book.


Scott Spiegelberg wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> Look at David Cope's work with EMI (Electronic Musical Intelligence).  
> He would create databases of scores in a particular genre, like Chopin 
> Mazurkas, that EMI would use to create a new mazurka.
> With this case, and any case of composition, the starting pitch will 
> depend a lot on the style of the composition.  If it is a tonal piece 
> in the style of the Classical period, it is likely to start on the 
> tonic, mediant, or dominant.  Romantic pieces often start on the 
> dominant, leading tone, or supertonic as much as the tonic triad 
> notes.  And atonal pieces can start on any pitch.
>
> Scott
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Pablo Hernan Rodriguez Zivic wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I don't know if you remember me, I'm the crazy one trying to make the 
> > computer compose melodies =D
> >
> > I'm going very fast and it seems that I'll finish my grad thesis 
> > soon... however I'm kind of stuck with one detail:
> >   The model that I'm using for the melodic contour, needs another 
> > model for the musical beginning because it's a conditional model 
> > based on the lasts notes that have been played.
> >
> > I've heard of a study that analyzes a lot a scores in order to find 
> > some pattern in how music begins.
> >
> > Does anyone know about that?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!!
> >
> > Pablo