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48 results for music theory

JamBot generates music with LSTMs, producing pleasant chord progressions and polyphonic music.

problem Generating harmonious and structured polyphonic music.
method Two-step process: chord LSTM for chord progression, second LSTM for polyphonic music generation.
result JamBot's learned chord embeddings reveal the circle of fifths, a significant finding in music theory.

BacHMMachine harmonizes Baroque chorales using theory-driven principles and Hidden Markov Models.

problem Algorithmic harmonization of Baroque chorales.
method Theory-driven approach guided by music composition principles, combined with data-driven learning of key and chord transitions.
result BacHMMachine generates musically coherent harmonizations with reduced computational burden and greater interpretability.

Geometric model explains music perception combining neuroscience and acoustics.

problem Rationalize and predict psycho-acoustic phenomena in music perception.
method Combining neuroscientific theories with acoustic observations, a geometric model of the space of all chords is created.
result The geometric model allows for rigorous studies of psychoacoustic quantities like roughness and harmonicity.

Generative model blends query input with latent states for structured improvisation.

problem Generating structured music from latent states of a neural network.
method Used a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) trained on a specific style corpus, and controlled blending with a noisy channel.
result Generated music with longer-term structure that blends query input with network style.

Model generates coherent polyphonic music using deep reinforcement learning.

problem Creating music that follows musical rules and coherence.
method Deep reinforcement learning architecture with a Bi-axial LSTM trained with a pseudo-kernel and DQN for exploration and coherence.
result The model generates polyphonic music that performs well quantitatively and qualitatively.

New system for automatic music emotion recognition considers multiple emotions simultaneously.

problem Automatic recognition of simultaneous and multiplicity of emotions in music.
method Comparison of multilabel and multiclass machine learning algorithms on the Emotify dataset.
result The Geneva Emotional Music Scale 9 is adopted for multilabel and multiclass classification of music emotions.

The paper categorizes music emotions and improves music retrieval.

problem Inefficient music retrieval based on album information.
method Categorical emotion expression, Fisher's separation theorem, feature extraction, Support Vector Machines.
result Maximum separability occurs between relaxing and epic music parts.

MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.

problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.

Model generates music to connect missing parts, leveraging latent space of VAE.

problem Music inpainting from missing or lost information.
method Deep learning model using VAE latent space and RNN to traverse latent space conditioned on past and future musical contexts.
result Model generates meaningful music inpaintings, connecting musical excerpts.

MIDI-VAE models music dynamics and instrumentation for style transfer.

problem Modeling and transferring musical style across different instruments and dynamics.
method Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for polyphonic music modeling and style transfer.
result MIDI-VAE successfully transfers musical style between different genres and instruments.

Generative models learn from high-level music representations, but this work models music in raw audio.

problem Capturing long-range correlations in music generation.
method Exploring autoregressive discrete autoencoders (ADAs) to model raw audio waveforms.
result Unconditional generation of piano music in raw audio domain with long-range correlations.

Music SketchNet generates missing measures in incomplete music pieces, guided by user input.

problem Generating missing measures in incomplete monophonic musical pieces.
method Introducing SketchVAE for factorized representation of rhythm and pitch, and two discriminative architectures for guided music completion.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art models in both objective and subjective evaluations.

The study uses music chords to predict Brazilian music genres.

problem Classifying popular Brazilian music genres based on harmonic structures.
method Extracted and engineered harmonically related features from chords data, used random forest model for classification.
result Features from harmonic elements can predict Brazilian music genres.

Universal music translation network across instruments and genres.

problem Translating music across different instruments, genres, and styles.
method Multi-domain wavenet autoencoder with a shared encoder and disentangled latent space trained end-to-end on waveforms.
result Achieves convincing translations even from domains not seen during training.

This research improves neural synthesizers for music sounds from speech data.

problem Applying speech synthesis techniques to musical instrument sounds.
method Comparison of three neural synthesizers in three scenarios: training, zero-shot learning, and fine-tuning.
result Neural synthesizers trained on speech data and fine-tuned on music data perform better.

EC^2-VAE generates music analogies by disentangling pitch and rhythm representations.

problem Disentangling music representations for generating creative analogies.
method Explicitly-constrained variational autoencoder (EC^2-VAE) for disentangling pitch and rhythm representations.
result EC^2-VAE enables the generation of music analogies by borrowing representations from different pieces.

New dataset and models generate piano music with coherent structure across multiple timescales.

problem Generating coherent musical structure with neural networks is challenging.
method Used notes as an intermediate representation to model and synthesize music across multiple timescales.
result Trained models capable of transcribing, composing, and synthesizing audio waveforms with coherent musical structure.

The study assesses music as an investment asset class using discounted cashflow models.

problem Quantifying the risk and return characteristics of music royalty assets.
method Fitting three discounted cashflow models to Royalty Exchange platform transactions and backtesting performance.
result Life of Rights music assets had risk and return characteristics comparable to stocks in the S\&P500 over 5 years.

ragamAI uses machine learning to create concert recitals for Carnatic music.

problem Creating a comprehensive listening experience for Carnatic music concerts.
method Playlist and session-based recommender models, leveraging mathematical structure in past concerts.
result ragamAI generates concert recitals that perform 25%-50% better than baseline models.

Transformer improves pop piano composition by incorporating beat-based structure.

problem Generating expressive pop piano compositions with coherent rhythmic structure.
method Improved data representation for Transformers, incorporating beat-bar-phrase structure.
result Composes pop piano music with better rhythmic structure than existing models.

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, chords, a complete musical score), can be naturally unified using Bayesian modell…

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Graph neural networks improve music genre classification on audio datasets.

problem Difficulty in applying deep learning on spectrograms due to lack of quality data and augmentation.
method Combination of CNN and Graph Neural Networks (GNN) with Siamese Neural Networks.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results on GTZAN and AudioSet datasets.