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We examine the problem of learning a probabilistic model for melody directly from musical sequences belonging to the same genre. This is a challenging task as one needs to capture not only the rich temporal structure evident in music, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Athina Spiliopoulou , Amos Storkey

This study is a theoretical approach for exploring the applicability of a 2D cellular automaton based on melodic and harmonic intervals in random arrays of musical notes. The aim of this study was to explore alternatives uses for a cellular…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Igor Lugo , Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras

Symbolic melodies generation is one of the essential tasks for automatic music generation. Recently, models based on neural networks have had a significant influence on generating symbolic melodies. However, the musical context structure is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Jin Li , Haibin Liu , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

We propose a novel approach for the generation of polyphonic music based on LSTMs. We generate music in two steps. First, a chord LSTM predicts a chord progression based on a chord embedding. A second LSTM then generates polyphonic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Gino Brunner , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer , Jonas Wiesendanger

We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. In computational terms, this task involves continuous embedding and generation of molecular graphs. Our primary contribution is the direct realization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Structure is one of the most essential aspects of music, and music structure is commonly indicated through repetition. However, the nature of repetition and structure in music is still not well understood, especially in the context of music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shuqi Dai , Huiran Yu , Roger B. Dannenberg

This paper presents a novel rule-based approach for generating music by varying existing tunes. We parse each tune to find the Pathway Assembly (PA) [ 1], that is a structure representing all repetitions in the tune. The Sequitur algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Maziar Kanani , Sean O Leary , James McDermott

We construct generating trees with one, two, and three labels for some classes of permutations avoiding generalized patterns of length 3 and 4. These trees are built by adding at each level an entry to the right end of the permutation,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-08-01 Sergi Elizalde

Music generation has always been a hot topic. When discussing symbolic music, melody or harmonies are usually seen as the only generating targets. But in fact, playing techniques are also quite an important part of the music. In this paper,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yifan Xie , Rongfeng Li

We explore the use of large language models (LLMs) for music generation using a retrieval system to select relevant examples. We find promising initial results for music generation in a dialogue with the user, especially considering the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Nicolas Jonason , Luca Casini , Carl Thomé , Bob L. T. Sturm

We present a novel framework for generating pop music. Our model is a hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network, where the layers and the structure of the hierarchy encode our prior knowledge about how pop music is composed. In particular, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Hang Chu , Raquel Urtasun , Sanja Fidler

Digital advances have transformed the face of automatic music generation since its beginnings at the dawn of computing. Despite the many breakthroughs, issues such as the musical tasks targeted by different machines and the degree to which…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Dorien Herremans , Ching-Hua Chuan , Elaine Chew

In this paper, we introduce new methods and discuss results of text-based LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) networks for automatic music composition. The proposed network is designed to learn relationships within text documents that represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Keunwoo Choi , George Fazekas , Mark Sandler

Current state-of-the-art AI based classical music creation algorithms such as Music Transformer are trained by employing single sequence of notes with time-shifts. The major drawback of absolute time interval expression is the difficulty of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Xianchao Wu , Chengyuan Wang , Qinying Lei

Generating symphonic music requires simultaneously managing high-level structural form and dense, multi-track orchestration. Existing symbolic models often struggle with a "complexity-control imbalance", in which scaling bottlenecks limit…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xuzheng He , Nan Nan , Zhilin Wang , Ziyue Kang , Zhuoru Mo , Ao Li , Yu Pan , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Xiaohong Guan

Music Structure Analysis is an open research task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In the past, there have been several works that attempt to segment music into the audio and symbolic domains, however, the identification and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Sonia Rubio Llamas , Jose R. Beltran

In this paper, we introduce Foley Music, a system that can synthesize plausible music for a silent video clip about people playing musical instruments. We first identify two key intermediate representations for a successful video to music…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Chuang Gan , Deng Huang , Peihao Chen , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

Repetition is a basic indicator of musical structure. This study introduces new algorithms for identifying musical phrases based on repetition. Phrases combine to form sections yielding a two-level hierarchical structure. Automatically…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shuqi Dai , Huan Zhang , Roger B. Dannenberg

Applications based on image retrieval require editing and associating in intermediate spaces that are representative of the high-level concepts like objects and their relationships rather than dense, pixel-level representations like RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Rishi Agarwal , Tirupati Saketh Chandra , Vaidehi Patil , Aniruddha Mahapatra , Kuldeep Kulkarni , Vishwa Vinay

This paper introduces four different artificial intelligence algorithms for music generation and aims to compare these methods not only based on the aesthetic quality of the generated music but also on their suitability for specific…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Razvan Paroiu , Stefan Trausan-Matu