Motivation • “Music is a language” • Jazz especially ◦ rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic grammar and vocabulary • So, let us try NLP • We will focus on harmony ◦ Symbolic, structured ◦ Musicians think about it consciously (more frequently than, e.g., rhythm) This work • Key prediction from chord BoWs • Root motion n-gram Markov models • Generation!

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Coursework for the Data Mining MFF UK module.