Title
Orpheus: Automatic Composition System Considering Prosody of Japanese Lyrics
Abstract
We present an algorithm for song composition using prosody of Japanese lyrics. Since Japanese is a "pitch accent" language, listener's apprehension is strongly affected by the pitch motions of the speaker. For example, the meaning of Japanese word "ha-shi" changes with the pitch. It means "bridge" with an upward pitch motion, and "chopsticks" with the motion inversed. A melody attached to the lyrics cause an effect similar to the pitch accent. Therefore we can assume that pitches of Japanese lyrics give constraints on pitch motions of the melody. Furthermore, chord progression, rhythm and accompaniment give constraints on the transitions and occurrences of the melody notes. If a certain melody for the lyrics were obtained, the melody would satisfy these constraints. Conversely, we can compose a song by finding the melody which optimally meets the condition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04052-8_47
ICEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
song composition,melody note,upward pitch motion,chord progression,japanese lyric,japanese lyrics,automatic composition system,japanese word,pitch motion,certain melody,pitch accent,probabilistic model
Melody,Prosody,Apprehension,Computer science,Pitch accent,Speech recognition,Lyrics,Chord (music),Rhythm
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5709
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.77
1
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Satoru Fukayama12112.03
Kei Nakatsuma2506.14
Shinji Sako318115.69
Yuichiro Yonebayashi4171.65
Tae Hun Kim5204.62
Si Wei Qin630.77
Takuho Nakano7221.85
Takuya Nishimoto822728.95
Shigeki Sagayama91217137.97