Motifs, phrases, and beyond: The modelling of structure in symbolic music generation

K Bhandari, S Colton - … Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music …, 2024 - Springer
Modelling musical structure is vital yet challenging for artificial intelligence systems that
generate symbolic music compositions. This literature review dissects the evolution of …

Deep learning's shallow gains: a comparative evaluation of algorithms for automatic music generation

Z Yin, F Reuben, S Stepney, T Collins - Machine Learning, 2023 - Springer
Deep learning methods are recognised as state-of-the-art for many applications of machine
learning. Recently, deep learning methods have emerged as a solution to the task of …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic Stylistic Composition of Bach Chorales with Deep LSTM.

FT Liang, M Gotham, M Johnson, J Shotton - ISMIR, 2017 - microsoft.com
This paper presents “BachBot”: an end-to-end automatic composition system for composing
and completing music in the style of Bach's chorales using a deep long short-term memory …

Applying modern psychometric techniques to melodic discrimination testing: Item response theory, computerised adaptive testing, and automatic item generation

PMC Harrison, T Collins, D Müllensiefen - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Modern psychometric theory provides many useful tools for ability testing, such as item
response theory, computerised adaptive testing, and automatic item generation. However …

A unit selection methodology for music generation using deep neural networks

M Bretan, G Weinberg, L Heck - arxiv preprint arxiv:1612.03789, 2016 - arxiv.org
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 …

Imposing higher-level structure in polyphonic music generation using convolutional restricted boltzmann machines and constraints

S Lattner, M Grachten, G Widmer - Journal of Creative Music …, 2018 - search.informit.org
We introduce a method for imposing higher-level structure on generated, polyphonic music.
A Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (C-RBM) as a generative model is combined …

Investigating the importance of self-theories of intelligence and musicality for students' academic and musical achievement

D Müllensiefen, P Harrison, F Caprini… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Musical abilities and active engagement with music have been shown to be positively
associated with many cognitive abilities as well as social skills and academic performance …

Generating structured music for bagana using quality metrics based on Markov models

D Herremans, S Weisser, K Sörensen… - Expert Systems with …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this research, a system is built that generates bagana music, a traditional lyre from
Ethiopia, based on a first order Markov model. Due to the size of many datasets it is often …

“A Good Algorithm Does Not Steal–It Imitates”: The Originality Report as a Means of Measuring When a Music Generation Algorithm Copies Too Much

Z Yin, F Reuben, S Stepney, T Collins - … in Music, Sound, Art and Design …, 2021 - Springer
Research on automatic music generation lacks consideration of the originality of musical
outputs, creating risks of plagiarism and/or copyright infringement. We present the originality …

Measuring when a music generation algorithm copies too much: The originality report, cardinality score, and symbolic fingerprinting by geometric hashing

Z Yin, F Reuben, S Stepney, T Collins - SN Computer Science, 2022 - Springer
Research on automatic music generation lacks consideration of the originality of musical
outputs, creating risks of plagiarism and/or copyright infringement. We present the originality …