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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

We present a framework based on neural networks to extract music scores directly from polyphonic audio in an end-to-end fashion. Most previous Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) methods seek a piano-roll representation of the pitches, that…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Miguel A. Román , Antonio Pertusa , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Real music signals are highly variable, yet they have strong statistical structure. Prior information about the underlying physical mechanisms by which sounds are generated and rules by which complex sound structure is constructed (notes,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-13 Pablo A. Alvarado , Dan Stowell

Mathematics is a far reaching discipline and its tools appear in many applications. In this paper we discuss its role in music and signal processing by revisiting the use of mathematics in algorithms that can extract chord information from…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Nathan Lenssen , Deanna Needell

Algorithmic composition of music has a long history and with the development of powerful deep learning methods, there has recently been increased interest in exploring algorithms and models to create art. We explore the utility of state…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Anna K. Yanchenko , Sayan Mukherjee

Modeling polyphonic music is a particularly challenging task because of the intricate interplay between melody and harmony. A good model should satisfy three requirements: statistical accuracy (capturing faithfully the statistics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Jason Sakellariou , François Pachet

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

Computational aesthetics evaluation has made great achievements in the field of visual arts, but the research work on music still needs to be explored. Although the existing work of music generation is very substantial, the quality of music…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xin Jin , Wu Zhou , Jinyu Wang , Duo Xu , Yiqing Rong , Shuai Cui

The mathematics of musical intervals and scales has been extensively studied. Vastly simplified, our ears seem to prefer intervals whose frequency ratios have small numerator and denominator, such as 2:1 (octave), 3:2 (perfect fifth), 4:3…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Matthias Beck , Emily Clader

Computational musicology enables systematic analysis of performative and structural traits in recorded music, yet existing approaches remain largely tailored to notated, score-based repertoires. This study advances a methodology for…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Gilberto Bernardes , Nádia Moura , António Sá Pinto

In recent years, thanks to advances in automatic music transcription (AMT), several large-scale datasets of automatically transcribed piano solo music have been released. While these datasets undoubtedly offer extensive material for…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Patricia Hu , Silvan Peter , Gerhard Widmer

This monograph introduces a novel approach to polyphonic music generation by addressing the "Missing Middle" problem through structural inductive bias. Focusing on Beethoven's piano sonatas as a case study, we empirically verify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joonwon Seo

Modern keyboards allow a musician to play multiple instruments at the same time by assigning zones -- fixed pitch ranges of the keyboard -- to different instruments. In this paper, we aim to further extend this idea and examine the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Chris Donahue , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

Choral music separation refers to the task of extracting tracks of voice parts (e.g., soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) from mixed audio. The lack of datasets has impeded research on this topic as previous work has only been able to train and…

This work addresses the problem of matching short excerpts of audio with their respective counterparts in sheet music images. We show how to employ neural network-based cross-modality embedding spaces for solving the following two sheet…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Matthias Dorfer , Andreas Arzt , Gerhard Widmer

Advancements in the digital technologies have enabled researchers to develop a variety of Computational Music applications. Such applications are required to capture, process, and generate data related to music. Therefore, it is important…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 SeyyedPooya HekmatiAthar , Mohd Anwar

Collecting large, aligned cross-modal datasets for music-flavor research is difficult because perceptual experiments are costly and small by design. We address this bottleneck through two complementary experiments. The first tests whether…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Matteo Spanio , Valentina Frezzato , Antonio Rodà

We present the Batik-plays-Mozart Corpus, a piano performance dataset combining professional Mozart piano sonata performances with expert-labelled scores at a note-precise level. The performances originate from a recording by Viennese…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

The buildup and release of a sense of tension is one of the most essential aspects of the process of listening to music. A veridical computational model of perceived musical tension would be an important ingredient for many music…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Ali Nikrang , David R. W. Sears , Gerhard Widmer

Music is a complex socio-cultural construct, which fascinates researchers in diverse fields, as well as the general public. Understanding the historical development of music may help us understand perceptual and cognition, while also…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-08 Alfredo González-Espinoza , Joshua B. Plotkin