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Lyrics-Conditioned Neural Melody Generation

  • Yi Yu*
  • , Florian Harscoët
  • , Simon Canales
  • , Gurunath Reddy M
  • , Suhua Tang
  • , Junjun Jiang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • National Institute of Informatics
  • Institut Supérieur d’Informatique de Modélisation et de leurs Applications
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • The University of Electro-Communications

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Abstract

Generating melody from lyrics to compose a song has been a very interesting research topic in the area of artificial intelligence and music, which tries to predict generative music relationship between lyrics and melody. In this demonstration paper, by exploiting a large music dataset with 12,197 pairs of English lyrics and melodies, we develop a lyrics-conditioned AI neural melody generation system that consists of three components: lyrics encoder network, melody generation network, and MIDI sequence tuner. Most importantly, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based melody generator conditioned on lyrics, is trained by applying a generative adversarial network (GAN), to generate a pleasing and meaningful melody matching the given lyrics. Our demonstration illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed melody generation system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultiMedia Modeling - 26th International Conference, MMM 2020, Proceedings
EditorsYong Man Ro, Junmo Kim, Jung-Woo Choi, Wen-Huang Cheng, Wei-Ta Chu, Peng Cui, Min-Chun Hu, Wesley De Neve
PublisherSpringer
Pages709-714
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783030377335
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event26th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2020 - Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 5 Jan 20208 Jan 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11962 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2020
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaejeon
Period5/01/208/01/20

Keywords

  • Generative adversarial network
  • Long Short-Term Memory
  • Lyrics-conditioned melody generation

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