Automatic Generation of Four-part Harmony

This paper introduces decision-theoretic planning techniques into automatic music generation. Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a mathematical model of planning under uncertainty, and factored MDPs demonstrate great advantages in an environment where the state space is large. Given a melody, we use a factored MDP planner to fill in the other three voices, based on the characteristics of classical Western four-part harmony.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: UAI
• Authors: Liangrong Yi, Judy Goldsmith
• Keywords: Decision-theoretic Planning Techniques, Factored Mdp, Factored Mdp Planner, UAI 2007, UAI 2008