Representation and Discovery of Vertical Patterns in Music

  • Authors:
  • Darrell Conklin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICMAI '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The automated discovery of recurrent patterns in music is a fundamental task in computational music analysis. This paper describes a new method for discovering patterns in the vertical and horizontal dimensions of polyphonic music. A formal representation of music objects is used to structure the musical surface, and several ideas for viewing pieces as successions of vertical structures are examined. A knowledge representation method is used to view pieces as sequences of relationships between music objects, and a pattern discovery algorithm is applied using this view of the Bach chorale harmonizations to find significant recurrent patterns. The method finds a small set of vertical patterns that occur in a large number of pieces in the corpus. Most of these patterns represent specific voice leading formulae within cadences.