Date of Award
1993
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Hewett, Rattikorn
Abstract
Computer-aided music composition is a highly structured process. This thesis presents MAPLE, a prototype knowledge-based system that assists music composition by analyzing primordial lines in Western music. Unlike other music analysis systems, MAPLE uses an internal connective musical structure that provides a foundation for analysis. Thus our approach has a building block capability allowing easy extensions for analyzing more complex musical structures. We present a type hierarchy and hierarchical dependency of different musical concepts for controlling complex musical analysis processes. We provide comparisons of various knowledge representation structures and their corresponding inference mechanisms used for music analysis and conclude with a projection of an appropriate form of knowledge representation for musical knowledge.
Extent
104 p.
Recommended Citation
Shaouy, William Philip, "MAPLE: A knowledge-based system for computer-aided music composition" (1993). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 471.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/471
Identifier
FADT14986
Comments
College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.C.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1993.|College of Engineering and Computer Science