A grammatical approach to automatic improvisation

Proceedings of the 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 330-337

  Keller, Robert M ^a   Morrison, David R ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational software; Improvisation; Jazz; Melody generator; Probabilistic context free grammar

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS;

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; IMPROVISATION; JAZZ; MELODY GENERATOR; PROBABILISTIC CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84905180041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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