Novel Graph-Based Approach for Creating and Comparing Music Arrangements

This article provides a brief summary on graph and network-based models of melody. It describes how to use these models for arrangement generation and how to compare results obtained with different generation methods. The comparison may be based on characteristics of a graph representing an original piece and graphs of generated arrangements.

Two main goals of this article are: to provide a formal description of existing models and generation methods in terms of stochastic processes and to introduce the new methods of comparing musical tracks using their graph representation.