Measure by Measure: Automatic Music Composition with Traditional Western Music Notation

Yujia Yan, Zhiyao Duan

Abstract:

In this paper, we present a system that is capable of generating long polyphonic music given number of measures, up to hundreds of measures.
This is achieved by creating a measure model that imitates the object hierarchy used in common encodings of traditional western music notation.
On top of this, we construct a inter-measure context model that spans the entire composition.