Creating Accompaniment to a Melody by Using Computer Technologies

Using Computer Accompaniment to Assist Networked Music Performance

This paper proposes a novel scheme for audio communication in synchronous musical performances carried out over computer networks. The proposed scheme uses techniques inspired from computer accompaniment systems, in which a software agent follows the performance of a human musician in real-time, by synchronizing a pre-recorded musical accompaniment to the live performance. In networked settings...

Computer Accompaniment and Music Understanding1

Music Understanding is the recognition or identification of structure and pattern in musical information. Five music understanding projects are discussed. In the first, Computer Accompaniment of Melodic Instruments, the goal is for a computer system to listen to and play along with a live performer, using a predetermined score. In the second project, the technique is extended to handle polyphon...

Vocal Melody Detection in the Presence of Pitched Accompaniment Using Harmonic Matching Methods

Vocal music is characterized by a melodically salient singing voice accompanied by one or more instruments. With a pitched instrument background, multiple periodicities are simultaneously present and the task becomes one of identifying and tracking the vocal pitch based on pitch strength and smoothness constraints. Frequency domain harmonic matching methods can be applied to detect pitch via th...

A Multi-agent Interactive composing system for creating "expressive" accompaniment

Real-Time Computer Accompaniment of Keyboard Performances