Computer Music Examples

The computer listens to the soloist and classifies the performance according to style. The styles are "lyrical," "syncopated," "pointilistic," and "frantic." The absolute meanings of these terms is not important. What is important is that the player and computer agree so that the computer can understand what the player intends. The computer actually learns about style from examples (see Dannenberg, Thom, and Watson, A Machine Learning Approach to Musical Style Recognition").