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A Functional Taxonomy of Music Generation Systems

arXiv 1812.04186 ↗First posted 11 Dec 2018cs.SD cs.LG eess.AScited by 31

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Abstract (arXiv)

Digital advances have transformed the face of automatic music generation since its beginnings at the dawn of computing. Despite the many breakthroughs, issues such as the musical tasks targeted by different machines and the degree to which they succeed remain open questions. We present a functional taxonomy for music generation systems with reference to existing systems. The taxonomy organizes systems according to the purposes for which they were designed. It also reveals the inter-relatedness amongst the systems. This design-centered approach contrasts with predominant methods-based surveys and facilitates the identification of grand challenges to set the stage for new breakthroughs.

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  2. 2023Video2Music: Suitable Music Generation from Videos using an Affective Multimodal Transformer modelcited by 37
  3. 2024MidiCaps: A large-scale MIDI dataset with text captionscited by 19
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  7. 2021Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks for Conditional Melody Generation with Long-term Structurecited by 12
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  10. 2022A Review of Intelligent Music Generation Systemscited by 11
  11. 2024Natural Language Processing Methods for Symbolic Music Generation and Information Retrieval: a Surveycited by 10
  12. 2025Survey on the Evaluation of Generative Models in Musiccited by 10
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  4. 2023Exploring Variational Auto-Encoder Architectures, Configurations, and Datasets for Generative Music Explainable AIcited by 4
  5. 2025A Comprehensive Survey on Generative AI for Video-to-Music Generationcited by 4
  6. 2023jazznet: A Dataset of Fundamental Piano Patterns for Music Audio Machine Learning Researchcited by 3
  7. 2023An Comparative Analysis of Different Pitch and Metrical Grid Encoding Methods in the Task of Sequential Music Generationcited by 2
  8. 2024BandCondiNet: Parallel Transformers-based Conditional Popular Music Generation with Multi-View Featurescited by 2
  9. 2024Text Conditioned Symbolic Drumbeat Generation using Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 2
  10. 2024Applications and Advances of Artificial Intelligence in Music Generation:A Reviewcited by 2
  11. 2021Musical Speech: A Transformer-based Composition Toolcited by 1
  12. 2023AffectMachine-Classical: A novel system for generating affective classical musiccited by 1
  13. 2024Prevailing Research Areas for Music AI in the Era of Foundation Modelscited by 1
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  16. 2025Apollo: An Interactive Environment for Generating Symbolic Musical Phrases using Corpus-based Style Imitationcited by 0
  17. 2025Aligning Generative Music AI with Human Preferences: Methods and Challengescited by 0
  18. 2025Perception of AI-Generated Music -- The Role of Composer Identity, Personality Traits, Music Preferences, and Perceived Humannesscited by 0
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