Development of a method for automatic basso continuo playing

Masahiro Niitsuma; Masaki Matsubara; Masaki Oono; Hiroaki Saito

doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2010.11.001

Development of a method for automatic basso continuo playing

Masahiro Niitsuma, Masaki Matsubara, Masaki Oono, Hiroaki Saito

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The purpose of this study is to develop an automatic basso continuo playing system. In order to find a musically appropriate sequence of chords, we propose the principle of "harmony cost", which is defined as the sum of two different costs: one is the "local cost" which indicates the unlikelihood of a certain chord allocation and the other is the "transition cost", which indicates the unlikelihood of a certain connection between two chords. Automatic basso continuo playing is realised by searching for the optimal chord sequence, which minimises the accumulated harmony cost. The proposed method is evaluated by three experiments. Each experiment verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	440-451
Number of pages	12
Journal	Information Processing and Management
Volume	47
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2010.11.001
Publication status	Published - 2011 May

Keywords

Baroque music
Basso continuo
Beam search
Computational musicology
Dynamic programming
Harmonisation
Music information retrieval

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems
Media Technology
Computer Science Applications
Management Science and Operations Research
Library and Information Sciences

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