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This paper presents a model of musical motifs for composition. It defines the relation between a motif’s music representation, its distinctive features, and how these features may be varied. Motifs can also depend on non-motivic musical conditions (e.g., harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic rules). The model was implemented as a constraint satisfaction problem.
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Anders, T. (2009). A Model of Musical Motifs. In: Klouche, T., Noll, T. (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2007. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04579-0_5
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