Affiliation:
1. Chungyu Institute of Technology
2. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Abstract
It is generally believed that the same piece of music, after a change of melody or associated instrument, could often elicit a different emotion, thus resulting in a change of music style. However, so far there have been rarely systematic studies on the relationships among the tunes, instruments, and aroused feelings. This paper proposes a framework to perform an automatic style conversion for the music represented in a MIDI format. Compared with most existing tools for music compositions where a professional background is usually assumed, we aim to provide a user-friendly system such that, with simply a mouse click, a desired music style transformation could be achieved by automatically adjusting the associated tempo and instruments of the music. Numerous music styles have been tested and results are quite satisfactory. We believe such a framework could be standardized and adopted in nowadays portable devices, such as laptops, tablet PCs, PDA, or smart phones.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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