Towards Formalizing Jazz Piano Knowledge with a Deductive Object-Oriented Approach
Keiji Hirata · 1995
The aim of this research is to provide a formalization method for the musical concepts and entities observed in scores and texts, that is, musical knowledge. As a first step, the knowledge domain of the research is restricted to a jazz piano solo performance, and the knowledge activities of a jazz pianist are represented using the deductive object-oriented (DOO) method. The advantages of the DOO method bring about that musical knowledge is systematized by a partial ordering, the flexible object representation makes it possible to manipulate musical knowledge incrementally, and the rules in a clausal form realizes useful and complicated functions, such as property inheritance, similarity and deductive inference. First, this paper shows a sample problem that the transcription of an actual solo performance by a jazz pianist is presented, explained, and analyzed. We are motivated to formalize the various musical knowledge appearing in the sample problem. From the sample problem, the observ...