Melody Creation Support by Visualization of Relationships among
Phrases and Musical Primitives
In this paper, aiming at supporting melody creation in improvisation,
we propose a visualization method for melody data, an extraction
method for rules of melody composition, and an exploring method for
hints to create novel melody. In the visualization method,
relationships among phrases and musical primitives are represented as
a spatial structure. By analyzing the space, a user can obtain
various rules and hints for melody composition. We also show
experiments with the prototype system which was applied to several
sample performances. From the results, it is suggested that the
methods effectively support people to extract the rules and the hints
through the static as well as dynamic analysis of improvised melodies.