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MAPLE: A knowledge-based system for computer-aided music composition

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Date Issued:
1993
Summary:
Computer-aided music composition is a highly structured process. This thesis presents MAPLE, a prototype knowledge-based system that assists music composition by analyzing primordial lines in Western music. Unlike other music analysis systems, MAPLE uses an internal connective musical structure that provides a foundation for analysis. Thus our approach has a building block capability allowing easy extensions for analyzing more complex musical structures. We present a type hierarchy and hierarchical dependency of different musical concepts for controlling complex musical analysis processes. We provide comparisons of various knowledge representation structures and their corresponding inference mechanisms used for music analysis and conclude with a projection of an appropriate form of knowledge representation for musical knowledge.
Title: MAPLE: A knowledge-based system for computer-aided music composition.
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Name(s): Shaouy, William Philip.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hewett, Rattikorn, Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1993
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 104 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Computer-aided music composition is a highly structured process. This thesis presents MAPLE, a prototype knowledge-based system that assists music composition by analyzing primordial lines in Western music. Unlike other music analysis systems, MAPLE uses an internal connective musical structure that provides a foundation for analysis. Thus our approach has a building block capability allowing easy extensions for analyzing more complex musical structures. We present a type hierarchy and hierarchical dependency of different musical concepts for controlling complex musical analysis processes. We provide comparisons of various knowledge representation structures and their corresponding inference mechanisms used for music analysis and conclude with a projection of an appropriate form of knowledge representation for musical knowledge.
Identifier: 14986 (digitool), FADT14986 (IID), fau:11765 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.C.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1993.
Subject(s): Music--Computer programs
Composition (Music)--Mechanical aids
Artificial intelligence--Musical applications
Musical analysis--Data processing
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