We investigate the suitability of applying some of the probabilistic and automata theoretic ideas that have been extremely successful in the areas of speech and natural language processing, to the area of musical style imitation. By using music written in a certain style as training data, parameters are calculated for (visible and hidden) Markov models (of mixed, higher or first order), in order to capture the musical style of the training data in terms of mathematical models. These models are then used to imitate two instrument music in the style of a given composer.
Walter Schulze is a MSc student at Computer Science, Stellenbosch University.