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Many of the music generation systems based on neural networks are fully autonomous and do not offer control over the generation process. In this research, we present a controllable music generation system in terms of tonal tension. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Rui Guo , Ivor Simpson , Thor Magnusson , Chris Kiefer , Dorien Herremans

Several methods exist for a computer to generate music based on data including Markov chains, recurrent neural networks, recombinancy, and grammars. We explore the use of unit selection and concatenation as a means of generating music using…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Mason Bretan , Gil Weinberg , Larry Heck

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in research related to the detection of piano pedals from audio signals in the music information retrieval community. However, to our best knowledge, recent generative models for symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Joann Ching , Yi-Hsuan Yang

This paper presents a systematic investigation into the constrained generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in producing Songci, a classical Chinese poetry form characterized by strict structural, tonal, and rhyme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhan Qu , Shuzhou Yuan , Michael Färber

A method is proposed which enables one to produce musical compositions by using transposition in place of harmonic progression. A transposition scale is introduced to provide a set of intervals commensurate with the musical scale, such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Andrei V Smirnov

Music segmentation refers to the dual problem of identifying boundaries between, and labeling, distinct music segments, e.g., the chorus, verse, bridge etc. in popular music. The performance of a range of music segmentation algorithms has…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Matthew C. McCallum

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

Music is essential in daily life, fulfilling emotional and entertainment needs, and connecting us personally, socially, and culturally. A better understanding of music can enhance our emotions, cognitive skills, and cultural connections.…

We apply deep learning methods, specifically long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, to music transcription modelling and composition. We build and train LSTM networks using approximately 23,000 music transcriptions expressed with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Bob L. Sturm , João Felipe Santos , Oded Ben-Tal , Iryna Korshunova

Chinese word segmentation has entered the deep learning era which greatly reduces the hassle of feature engineering. Recently, some researchers attempted to treat it as character-level translation, which further simplified model designing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Pinzhen Chen , Kenneth Heafield

Large language models perform strongly on general tasks but remain constrained in specialized settings such as music, particularly in the music-entertainment domain, where corpus scale, purity, and the match between data and training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kai Tian , Yirong Mao , Wendong Bi , Hanjie Wang , Que Wenhui

Symbolic perturbations offer a novel approach for influencing neural representations without requiring direct modification of model parameters. The recursive regeneration of symbolic structures introduces structured variations in latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Kathlyn Eaglewood , Tobias Featherington , Dorian Mayfair , Sylvester Grimshaw , James Pettigrew

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

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

We consider a novel task of automatically generating text descriptions of music. Compared with other well-established text generation tasks such as image caption, the scarcity of well-paired music and text datasets makes it a much more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Peining Zhang , Junliang Guo , Linli Xu , Mu You , Junming Yin

The analysis of the structure of musical pieces is a task that remains a challenge for Artificial Intelligence, especially in the field of Deep Learning. It requires prior identification of structural boundaries of the music pieces. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran , David Diaz-Guerra

This paper studies the prediction of chord progressions for jazz music by relying on machine learning models. The motivation of our study comes from the recent success of neural networks for performing automatic music composition. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Tristan Carsault , Andrew McLeod , Philippe Esling , Jérôme Nika , Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Recent advancements in music large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved music understanding tasks, which involve the model's ability to analyze and interpret various musical elements. These improvements primarily focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhuoyuan Mao , Mengjie Zhao , Qiyu Wu , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Interaction with the world requires an organism to transform sensory signals into representations in which behaviorally meaningful properties of the environment are made explicit. These representations are derived through cascades of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-17 Wiktor Młynarski , Josh H. McDermott

Automatic music generation with artificial intelligence typically requires a large amount of data which is hard to obtain for many less common genres and musical instruments. To tackle this issue, we present ongoing work and preliminary…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Li Zhang , Chris Callison-Burch