Date of Award

6-2009

Document Type

Union College Only

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Kristina Striegnitz

Language

English

Keywords

emulate, genre, melodic, accompaniment, allows

Abstract

This project is a small scale computer accompaniment/harmonization system that allows users to harmonize a melodic line based on the genre that they are trying to emulate using a midi device for simple melodic input and a Hidden Markov Model for chord prediction. The system uses pluggable models so that the genre can be changed on the fly. The results are fairly good, as the system can successfully emulate the genres that it has been trained on. However there are clear limitations as rhythm, dynamics and overall form are missing from the system output. A more complete system would examine and integrate these musical characteristics as well.

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