Investigation on Meter in Generative Modeling of Music

Generative models of music rhythm are in severe need of performance additions, i.e. inclusions of subtle temporal and dynamic alterations so as to render the music musical. While much of the research is based on music theory, the work presented here is based on the temporal perception, which is divided into three parts, the immediate (subchunk), the short-term memory (chunk), and the superchunk. By review of the relevant temporal perception literature, and analysis of performances of metrical music, the necessary performance elements to add in the metrical generative model, related to the chunk memory, are obtained.