Melody generation from lyrics has been a challenging research issue in the field of artificial intelligence and music, which enables to learn discover latent relationship between interesting accompanying melody. Unfortunately, limited availability paired lyrics-melody dataset with alignment information hindered progress. To address this problem, we create large consisting 12,197 MIDI songs each...

Melody is the pitch perceived from the most dominant source in the polyphonic music. This paper describes our algorithm for melody extraction submitted for the audio melody extraction task of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2012. The task consists of two parts: melody estimation and voicing detection. The presented algorithm performs the melody estimation in an onlin...

In this paper, we will examine the importance of music complexity as a factor for melody recognition in multi-voiced popular music. The assumption is that the melody (or lead instrument) will contain the largest amount of information – that it will be the least redundant voice. Measures of melodic complexity calculated from pitch and timing information are proposed. We test the different comple...

Primitive processes involved in auditory stream formation are measured with indirect, objective method. A target melody interleaved with a distractor sequence is followed by a probe melody that was identical to the target or differed by 2 notes. Listeners decided whether the probe melody was present or not in the composite sequence. Interleaved melody recognition is not possible when distractor...

Music query-by-humming is a challenging problem since the humming query inevitably contains much variation and inaccuracy. Many of the previous methods, which adopt note segmentation and string matching with dynamic programming, suffer drastically from the errors in the note segmentation which affects retrieval accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we present a novel melody similarity matchin...

A method that predicts the next notes is described for assisting musical novices to play improvisations. Melody prediction is one of the most difficult problems in musical information retrieval because composers and players may or may not create melodies that conform to our expectation. The development of a melody expectation method is thus important for building a system that supports musical ...

We present an algorithm for song composition using prosody of Japanese lyrics. Since Japanese is a “pitch accent” language, listener’s apprehension is strongly affected by the pitch motions of the speaker. For example, the meaning of Japanese word “ha-shi” changes with the pitch. It means “bridge” with an upward pitch motion, and “chopsticks” with the motion inversed. A melody attached to the l...

Singing melody extraction is the task that identifies the melody pitch contour of singing 1 voice from polyphonic music. Most of the traditional melody extraction algorithms are based on 2 calculating salient pitch candidates or separating the melody source from the mixture. Recently, 3 classification-based approach based on deep learning has drawn much attentions. In this paper, 4 we present a...