What is missing in deep music generation? a study of repetition and structure in popular music

S Dai, H Yu, RB Dannenberg - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.00182, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

I keep counting: An experiment in human/AI co-creative songwriting

G Micchi, L Bigo, M Giraud, R Groult… - Transactions of the …, 2021 - hal.science
Musical co-creativity aims at making humans and computers collaborate to compose music.
As an MIR team in computational musicology, we experimented with co-creativity when …

Cadence detection in symbolic classical music using graph neural networks

E Karystinaios, G Widmer - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.14819, 2022 - arxiv.org
Cadences are complex structures that have been driving music from the beginning of
contrapuntal polyphony until today. Detecting such structures is vital for numerous MIR tasks …

Automatic analysis and influence of hierarchical structure on melody, rhythm and harmony in popular music

S Dai, H Zhang, RB Dannenberg - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.07518, 2020 - arxiv.org
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 …

The interconnections of music structure, harmony, melody, rhythm, and predictivity

S Dai, H Zhang, RB Dannenberg - Music & Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Repetition and structure have a significant place in music theory, but the structure hierarchy
and its influences are often ignored in both music analysis and music generation. In this …

Graphmuse: A library for symbolic music graph processing

E Karystinaios, G Widmer - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.12671, 2024 - arxiv.org
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently gained traction in symbolic music tasks, yet a
lack of a unified framework impedes progress. Addressing this gap, we present GraphMuse …

Estimating keys and modulations in musical pieces

L Feisthauer, L Bigo, M Giraud, F Levé - Sound and Music Computing …, 2020 - hal.science
Modulations, the moments where key change, are structurally important in tonal music.
Analyzing music, especially studying large-scale music structure of a piece, often implies to …

A dataset of symbolic texture annotations in mozart piano sonatas

L Couturier, L Bigo, F Levé - International Society for Music Information …, 2022 - hal.science
Musical scores are generally analyzed under different aspects, notably melody, harmony,
rhythm, but also through their texture, although this last concept is arguably more delicate to …

SMUG-Explain: A Framework for Symbolic Music Graph Explanations

E Karystinaios, F Foscarin, G Widmer - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.09241, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we present Score MUsic Graph (SMUG)-Explain, a framework for generating
and visualizing explanations of graph neural networks applied to arbitrary prediction tasks …

Symbolic music structure analysis with graph representations and changepoint detection methods

C Hernandez-Olivan, SR Llamas, JR Beltran - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …