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The paper addresses the issue of automatic generation of music excerpts. The character of the problem makes it suitable for various kinds of evolutionary computation algorithms. We introduce a special method of indirect melodic representation that allows simple application of standard search operators like crossover and mutation with no repair mechanisms necessary. A method is proposed for automatic evaluation of melodies based upon a corpus of manually coded examples, such as classical music opi. Various kinds of Genetic Algorithm (GA) were tested against this e.g., generational GAs and steady-state GAs. The results show the ability of the method for further applications in the domain of automatic music composition.
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Wolkowicz, J., Heywood, M., Keselj, V. (2009). Evolving Indirectly Represented Melodies with Corpus-Based Fitness Evaluation. In: Giacobini, M., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5484. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_69
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