MUSIC/LYRICS COMPOSITION SYSTEM WITH USER'S IMPRESSIONS OF THEME

This paper proposes a music/lyrics composing system consisting of two sections, a lyric composing section and a music composing section, which reflects user's impressions of theme of songs to music/lyrics. Love and nature are considered as theme in this paper. First of all, a user has a theme and image of lyrics to compose. The lyric composing section presents initial lyrics selected at random from database that is generated using existent lyrics and Markov Chain. If presented lyrics do not fit user's image, a part of lyrics not fitting user's image is changed by some other lyrics. When satisfied four lines lyrics are obtained, the music composition section starts. This section composes music fitting lyrics generated by the lyric composing section with the music composition system. The section presents combinations of four lines lyrics and 16 measures music. A subject evaluates each combination of lyrics and music whether they fit his/her image of a song. According to subject's evaluation music melody is changed by Genetic Algorithms and a part of lyrics are changed. These procedures are repeated until satisfied combination of lyrics and music melody is generated. In order to verify the validity of the presented system, subject experiments are performed.