Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2017)

Transitioning from one section of music to another is a core problem for game music. As such, developing approaches to game music composition which can systematically execute a transition would greatly simplify the complexity of a composer's work. To answer this question we have undertaken the composition and analysis of a simple score, looking at the compositional techniques utilised in points of transition. This practice-led process is then used to inform the development of a prototype system for the real-time generation of music to accompany a game. The output of the generative system is then compared to the human composed music to further understand key features of musical transitions applicable to real-time systems. From this comparison, key features, such as tonality and contour, are highlighted. The techniques used to manipulate these features are explained in the course of discussing the generative system. Through this research a greater understanding is developed of enacting musical transitions in a generative system for game music