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We propose a novel method to model hierarchical metrical structures for both symbolic music and audio signals in a self-supervised manner with minimal domain knowledge. The model trains and inferences on beat-aligned music signals and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

Modelling human perception of musical similarity is critical for the evaluation of generative music systems, musicological research, and many Music Information Retrieval tasks. Although human similarity judgments are the gold standard,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Jeff Ens , Philippe Pasquier

We introduce MIDI-VAE, a neural network model based on Variational Autoencoders that is capable of handling polyphonic music with multiple instrument tracks, as well as modeling the dynamics of music by incorporating note durations and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Gino Brunner , Andres Konrad , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

A music piece is both comprehended hierarchically, from sonic events to melodies, and sequentially, in the form of repetition and variation. Music from different cultures establish different aesthetics by having different style conventions…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Shlomo Dubnov , Kevin Huang , Cheng-i Wang

Machine learning is the capacity of a computational system to learn structures from datasets in order to make predictions on newly seen data. Such an approach offers a significant advantage in music scenarios in which musicians can teach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Rebecca Fiebrink , Baptiste Caramiaux

Existing symbolic music generation methods usually utilize discriminator to improve the quality of generated music via global perception of music. However, considering the complexity of information in music, such as rhythm and melody, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhedong Zhang , Liang Li , Jiehua Zhang , Zhenghui Hu , Hongkui Wang , Chenggang Yan , Jian Yang , Yuankai Qi

In this study, the notion of perceptual features is introduced for describing general music properties based on human perception. This is an attempt at rethinking the concept of features, in order to understand the underlying human…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Anders Friberg , Erwin Schoonderwaldt , Anton Hedblad , Marco Fabiani , Anders Elowsson

At present, neural network models show powerful sequence prediction ability and are used in many automatic composition models. In comparison, the way humans compose music is very different from it. Composers usually start by creating…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yutian Wang , Wanyin Yang , Zhenrong Dai , Yilong Zhang , Kun Zhao , Hui Wang

The creation of long melody sequences requires effective expression of coherent musical structure. However, there is no clear representation of musical structure. Recent works on music generation have suggested various approaches to deal…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi Zou , Pei Zou , Yi Zhao , Kaixiang Zhang , Ran Zhang , Xiaorui Wang

Our goal is to be able to build a generative model from a deep neural network architecture to try to create music that has both harmony and melody and is passable as music composed by humans. Previous work in music generation has mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Allen Huang , Raymond Wu

We explore the use of a neural network inspired by predictive coding for modeling human music perception. This network was developed based on the computational neuroscience theory of recurrent interactions in the hierarchical visual cortex.…

This paper describes a computational model of loudness variations in expressive ensemble performance. The model predicts and explains the continuous variation of loudness as a function of information extracted automatically from the written…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Thassilo Gadermaier , Maarten Grachten , Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón

We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as "a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff". MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical…

We propose a generative model of paraphrase generation, that encourages syntactic diversity by conditioning on an explicit syntactic sketch. We introduce Hierarchical Refinement Quantized Variational Autoencoders (HRQ-VAE), a method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Tom Hosking , Hao Tang , Mirella Lapata

AI-based music generation has made significant progress in recent years. However, generating symbolic music that is both long-structured and expressive remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose PerceiverS (Segmentation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yungang Yi , Weihua Li , Matthew Kuo , Quan Bai

In this paper we present a mathematical way of defining musical modes, we derive a formula for the total number of modes and define the musicality of a mode as the total number of harmonic chords whithin the mode. We also give an algorithm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-04 Mihail Cocos , Shawn Fowers

We initiate the development of a new language and theory for quantum music, to which we refer as Quantum Concept Music (QCM). This new music formalism is based on Categorical Quantum Mechanics (CQM), and more specifically, its diagrammatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin , Bob Coecke

Commercial adoption of automatic music composition requires the capability of generating diverse and high-quality music suitable for the desired context (e.g., music for romantic movies, action games, restaurants, etc.). In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lee Hyun , Taehyun Kim , Hyolim Kang , Minjoo Ki , Hyeonchan Hwang , Kwanho Park , Sharang Han , Seon Joo Kim

We propose a novel symbolic music representation and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework specially designed for symbolic multitrack music generation. The main theme of symbolic music generation primarily encompasses the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jinlong Zhu , Keigo Sakurai , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Music Structure Analysis (MSA) consists in segmenting a music piece in several distinct sections. We approach MSA within a compression framework, under the hypothesis that the structure is more easily revealed by a simplified representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen , Frédéric Bimbot