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Chord-Conditioned Melody Harmonization with Controllable Harmonicity

Sound 2023-02-23 v4 Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Melody harmonization has long been closely associated with chorales composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Previous works rarely emphasised chorale generation conditioned on chord progressions, and there has been a lack of focus on assistive compositional tools. In this paper, we first designed a music representation that encoded chord symbols for chord conditioning, and then proposed DeepChoir, a melody harmonization system that can generate a four-part chorale for a given melody conditioned on a chord progression. With controllable harmonicity, users can control the extent of harmonicity for generated chorales. Experimental results reveal the effectiveness of the music representation and the controllability of DeepChoir.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.08423,
  title  = {Chord-Conditioned Melody Harmonization with Controllable Harmonicity},
  author = {Shangda Wu and Xiaobing Li and Maosong Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08423},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ICASSP 2023

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