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We introduce an extensive new dataset of MIDI files, created by transcribing audio recordings of piano performances into their constituent notes. The data pipeline we use is multi-stage, employing a language model to autonomously crawl and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Louis Bradshaw , Simon Colton

Attempts to use generative models for music generation have been common in recent years, and some of them have achieved good results. Pieces generated by some of these models are almost indistinguishable from those being composed by human…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-26 You Li , Zhuowen Lin

Recent advancements in generative models have shown remarkable progress in music generation. However, most existing methods focus on generating monophonic or homophonic music, while the generation of polyphonic and multi-track music with…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hongfei Wang

Music arrangement generation is a subtask of automatic music generation, which involves reconstructing and re-conceptualizing a piece with new compositional techniques. Such a generation process inevitably requires reference from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ziyu Wang , Ke Chen , Junyan Jiang , Yiyi Zhang , Maoran Xu , Shuqi Dai , Xianbin Gu , Gus Xia

Current approaches for explaining deep learning systems applied to musical data provide results in a low-level feature space, e.g., by highlighting potentially relevant time-frequency bins in a spectrogram or time-pitch bins in a piano…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Francesco Foscarin , Katharina Hoedt , Verena Praher , Arthur Flexer , Gerhard Widmer

We present a new large-scale emotion-labeled symbolic music dataset consisting of 12k MIDI songs. To create this dataset, we first trained emotion classification models on the GoEmotions dataset, achieving state-of-the-art results with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Serkan Sulun , Pedro Oliveira , Paula Viana

This paper investigates end-to-end learnable models for attributing composers to musical scores. We introduce several pooled, convolutional architectures for this task and draw connections between our approach and classical learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Harsh Verma , John Thickstun

The Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), introduced in 1983, revolutionized music production by allowing computers and instruments to communicate efficiently. MIDI files encode musical instructions compactly, facilitating convenient…

The task of efficient automatic music classification is of vital importance and forms the basis for various advanced applications of AI in the musical domain. Musical instrument recognition is the task of instrument identification by virtue…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Saranga Kingkor Mahanta , Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman Khilji , Partha Pakray

Multi-modal music generation, using multiple modalities like text, images, and video alongside musical scores and audio as guidance, is an emerging research area with broad applications. This paper reviews this field, categorizing music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shuyu Li , Shulei Ji , Zihao Wang , Songruoyao Wu , Jiaxing Yu , Kejun Zhang

Deep learning models are typically evaluated to measure and compare their performance on a given task. The metrics that are commonly used to evaluate these models are standard metrics that are used for different tasks. In the field of music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Jorge Abadias Puyuelo , Jose R. Beltran

Musical expression requires control of both what notes are played, and how they are performed. Conventional audio synthesizers provide detailed expressive controls, but at the cost of realism. Black-box neural audio synthesis and…

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive…

Music performance synthesis aims to synthesize a musical score into a natural performance. In this paper, we borrow recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis and present the Deep Performer -- a novel system for score-to-audio music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Cong Zhou , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

We present an end-to-end system for musical key estimation, based on a convolutional neural network. The proposed system not only out-performs existing key estimation methods proposed in the academic literature; it is also capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Filip Korzeniowski , Gerhard Widmer

This paper introduces a new large-scale music dataset, MusicNet, to serve as a source of supervision and evaluation of machine learning methods for music research. MusicNet consists of hundreds of freely-licensed classical music recordings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-07 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Sham Kakade

Modern music producers commonly use MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) to store their musical compositions. However, MIDI files created with digital software may lack the expressive characteristics of human performances,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhanhong He , David Cooper , Defeng Huang , Roberto Togneri

A MIDI based approach for music recognition is proposed and implemented in this paper. Our Clarinet music retrieval system is designed to search piano MIDI files with high recall and speed. We design a novel melody extraction algorithm that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Kshitij Alwadhi , Rohan Sharma , Siddhant Sharma

Current methods for Music Structure Analysis (MSA) focus primarily on audio data. While symbolic music can be synthesized into audio and analyzed using existing MSA techniques, such an approach does not exploit symbolic music's rich…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Omar Eldeeb , Martin Malandro

Large language models (LLMs) excel at modeling relationships between strings in natural language and have shown promise in extending to other symbolic domains like coding or mathematics. However, the extent to which they implicitly model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Andrew Shin , Kunitake Kaneko