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The term melodic template or skeleton refers to a basic melody which is subject to variation during a music performance. In many oral music tradition, these templates are implicitly passed throughout generations without ever being…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Sergey Bereg , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher , Inmaculada Ventura

We present a hybrid neural network and rule-based system that generates pop music. Music produced by pure rule-based systems often sounds mechanical. Music produced by machine learning sounds better, but still lacks hierarchical temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Yifei Teng , An Zhao , Camille Goudeseune

Emotion alignment between music and palettes is crucial for effective multimedia content, yet misalignment creates confusion that weakens the intended message. However, existing methods often generate only a single dominant color, missing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiayun Hu , Yueyi He , Tianyi Liang , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Creating a pop song melody according to pre-written lyrics is a typical practice for composers. A computational model of how lyrics are set as melodies is important for automatic composition systems, but an end-to-end lyric-to-melody model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Daiyu Zhang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Katerina Kosta , Jordan B. L. Smith , Shicen Zhou

Many practices have been presented in music generation recently. While stylistic music generation using deep learning techniques has became the main stream, these models still struggle to generate music with high musicality, different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shuqi Dai , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg

Analogy-making is a key method for computer algorithms to generate both natural and creative music pieces. In general, an analogy is made by partially transferring the music abstractions, i.e., high-level representations and their…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ruihan Yang , Dingsu Wang , Ziyu Wang , Tianyao Chen , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

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 the domain of algorithmic music composition, machine learning-driven systems eliminate the need for carefully hand-crafting rules for composition. In particular, the capability of recurrent neural networks to learn complex temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Harish Kumar , Balaraman Ravindran

Graphs can be leveraged to model polyphonic multitrack symbolic music, where notes, chords and entire sections may be linked at different levels of the musical hierarchy by tonal and rhythmic relationships. Nonetheless, there is a lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Emanuele Cosenza , Andrea Valenti , Davide Bacciu

Music comprises of a set of complex simultaneous events organized in time. In this paper we introduce a novel framework that we call Deep Musical Information Dynamics, which combines two parallel streams - a low rate latent representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Shlomo Dubnov

We contribute a pop-song automation framework for lead melody generation and accompaniment arrangement. The framework reflects the major procedures of human music composition, generating both lead melody and piano accompaniment by a unified…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ziyu Wang , Gus Xia

Abstract This project presents a system of neural networks to translate between images and melodies. Autoencoders compress the information in samples to abstract representation. A translation network learns a set of correspondences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Karl Wienand , Wolfgang M. Heckl

Structural segmentation of music refers to the task of finding a symbolic representation of the organisation of a song, reducing the musical flow to a partition of non-overlapping segments. Under this definition, the musical structure may…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen , Frédéric Bimbot

Music Generation (MG) is an interesting research topic that links the art of music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to train an artificial composer to generate infinite, fresh, and pleasurable musical pieces. Music has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Majid Farzaneh , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

Computational analysis of performed music is a key component of music information research, as performance shapes much of the music we hear. Music performance analysis studies the acoustic variations introduced by performers and how these…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Corentin Guichaoua , Daniel Bedoya , Elaine Chew

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

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 representations are the backbone of modern recommendation systems, powering playlist generation, similarity search, and personalized discovery. Yet most embeddings offer little control for adjusting a single musical attribute, e.g.,…

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

Music is inherently made up of complex structures, and representing them as graphs helps to capture multiple levels of relationships. While music generation has been explored using various deep generation techniques, research on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Wen Qing Lim , Jinhua Liang , Huan Zhang