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Many music AI models learn a map between music content and human-defined labels. However, many annotations, such as chords, can be naturally expressed within the music modality itself, e.g., as sequences of symbolic notes. This observation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junyan Jiang , Daniel Chin , Liwei Lin , Xuanjie Liu , Gus Xia

Music is a repetition of patterns and rhythms. It can be composed by repeating a certain number of bars in a structured way. In this paper, the objective is to generate a loop of 8 bars that can be used as a building block of music. Even…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Sangjun Han , Hyeongrae Ihm , Woohyung Lim

This paper introduces a novel recurrent model for music composition that is tailored to the structure of polyphonic music. We propose an efficient new conditional probabilistic factorization of musical scores, viewing a score as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-28 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Dean P. Foster , Sham M. Kakade

This paper aims to test whether a multi-modal approach for music emotion recognition (MER) performs better than a uni-modal one on high-level song features and lyrics. We use 11 song features retrieved from the Spotify API, combined lyrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tibor Krols , Yana Nikolova , Ninell Oldenburg

Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajectories remains unclear. We introduce a novel computational…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Harin Lee , Rainer Polak , Manuel Anglada-Tort , Marc Schönwiesner , Minsu Park , Nori Jacoby

Musical counterpoint, a musical technique in which two or more independent melodies are played simultaneously with the goal of creating harmony, has been around since the baroque era. However, to our knowledge computational generation of…

Sound · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Jeffrey Power Jacobs , James Reggia

Mathematics, and more generally computational sciences, intervene in several aspects of music. Mathematics describes the acoustics of the sounds giving formal tools to physics, and the matter of music itself in terms of compositional…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Maria Mannone

Music and dance have always co-existed as pillars of human activities, contributing immensely to the cultural, social, and entertainment functions in virtually all societies. Notwithstanding the gradual systematization of music and dance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shuang Wu , Zhenguang Li , Shijian Lu , Li Cheng

In this paper we have defined one function that has been used to construct different fractals having fractal dimensions between 1.58 and 2. Also, we tried to calculate the amount of increment of fractal dimension in accordance with the base…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Sk. Sarif Hassan , Sudhakar Sahoo , Soubhik Chakraborty

This paper focuses on the nominal durations of musical events (notes and rests) in a symbolic musical score, and on how to conveniently handle these in computer applications. We propose the usage of a temporal unit that is directly related…

Creativity, or the ability to produce new useful ideas, is commonly associated to the human being; but there are many other examples in nature where this phenomenon can be observed. Inspired by this fact, in engineering and particularly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 David Daniel Albarracín Molina

Computability theory is traditionally conceived as the theoretical basis of informatics. Nevertheless, numerous proposals transcend computability theory, in particular by emphasizing interaction of modules, or components, parts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Peter Fettke , Wolfgang Reisig

This application-oriented study concerns computational musicology, which makes use of grammar systems. We define multi-generative rule-synchronized scattered-context grammar systems (without erasing rules) and demonstrates how to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jozef Makiš , Alexander Meduna , Zbyněk Křivka

Creating a pop song melody according to pre-written lyrics is a typical practice for composers. A computational model of how lyrics are set as melodies is important for automatic composition systems, but an end-to-end lyric-to-melody model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Daiyu Zhang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Katerina Kosta , Jordan B. L. Smith , Shicen Zhou

We present a method for the generation of Midi files of piano music. The method models the right and left hands using two networks, where the left hand is conditioned on the right hand. This way, the melody is generated before the harmony.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Or Goren , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

Structural segmentation of music refers to the task of finding a symbolic representation of the organisation of a song, reducing the musical flow to a partition of non-overlapping segments. Under this definition, the musical structure may…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen , Frédéric Bimbot

Although computational aesthetics evaluation has made certain achievements in many fields, its research of music performance remains to be explored. At present, subjective evaluation is still a ultimate method of music aesthetics research,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xin Jin , Wu Zhou , Jinyu Wang , Duo Xu , Yiqing Rong , Jialin Sun

Algorithmic composition is the partial or total automation of the process of music composition by using computers. Since the 1950s, different computational techniques related to Artificial Intelligence have been used for algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Jose David Fernandez , Francisco Vico

This paper introduces a simple method for producing multichannel MIDI music that is based on randomness and simple probabilities. One distinctive feature of the method is that it produces and sends in parallel to the sound card more than…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Yannis Tzitzikas

Polyphonic music files were analyzed using the set of symbols that produced the Minimal Entropy Description which we call the Fundamental Scale. This allowed us to create a novel space to represent music pieces by developing: a) a method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Gerardo Febres , Klaus Jaffe