Music Improvisation

The thesis deals with problems concerning algorithmic music compositon, especially the domain of musical improvisation. There is an opening presentation of some of existing tools and approaches that are commonly used in domain of computer music. Consenquently there is a proposal of a new system, using main principles of markov chains and prediction suffix trees (PST) with description of its implementation. The main task of developped application is to analyze an external MIDI recording that is proposed to the system by user and create a new and inovative musical material in MIDI format that would sound close to the original recording giving an impression of a computer improvised music to the listener