An Agent-Based Framework for Automated Higher-Voice Harmony Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24463v2
• Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:41 GMT
• Title: An Agent-Based Framework for Automated Higher-Voice Harmony Generation
• Authors: Nia D'Souza Ganapathy, Arul Selvamani Shaja,
• Abstract summary: Our framework comprises four specialized agents: a Music-Ingestion Agent for parsing and standardizing input musical scores; a Chord-Knowledge Agent, powered by a Chord-Former (Transformer model), to interpret and provide the constituent notes of complex chord symbols; and a Harmony-Generation Agent, which composes a melodically and rhythmically complementary harmony line.<n>By delegating specific tasks to specialized agents, our system effectively mimics the collaborative process of human musicians.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The generation of musically coherent and aesthetically pleasing harmony remains a significant challenge in the field of algorithmic composition. This paper introduces an innovative Agentic AI-enabled Higher Harmony Music Generator, a multi-agent system designed to create harmony in a collaborative and modular fashion. Our framework comprises four specialized agents: a Music-Ingestion Agent for parsing and standardizing input musical scores; a Chord-Knowledge Agent, powered by a Chord-Former (Transformer model), to interpret and provide the constituent notes of complex chord symbols; a Harmony-Generation Agent, which utilizes a Harmony-GPT and a Rhythm-Net (RNN) to compose a melodically and rhythmically complementary harmony line; and an Audio-Production Agent that employs a GAN-based Symbolic-to-Audio Synthesizer to render the final symbolic output into high-fidelity audio. By delegating specific tasks to specialized agents, our system effectively mimics the collaborative process of human musicians. This modular, agent-based approach allows for robust data processing, deep theoretical understanding, creative composition, and realistic audio synthesis, culminating in a system capable of generating sophisticated and contextually appropriate higher-voice harmonies for given melodies.

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