Maximum entropy models capture melodic styles

Abstract We introduce a Maximum Entropy model able to capture the statistics of melodies in music. The model can be used to generate new melodies that emulate the style of a given musical corpus. Instead of using the n–body interactions of (n−1)–order Markov models, traditionally used in automatic m...

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Main Authors: Jason Sakellariou, Francesca Tria, Vittorio Loreto, Francois Pachet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08028-4