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Automatic Analysis and Influence of Hierarchical Structure on Melody, Rhythm and Harmony in Popular Music

arXiv 2010.07518 ↗First posted 15 Oct 2020cs.SD eess.AScited by 21

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Abstract (arXiv)

Repetition is a basic indicator of musical structure. This study introduces new algorithms for identifying musical phrases based on repetition. Phrases combine to form sections yielding a two-level hierarchical structure. Automatically detected hierarchical repetition structures reveal significant interactions between structure and chord progressions, melody and rhythm. Different levels of hierarchy interact differently, providing evidence that structural hierarchy plays an important role in music beyond simple notions of repetition or similarity. Our work suggests new applications for music generation and music evaluation.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 3; 2022: 3; 2023: 1; 2024: 5; 2025: 7; 2026: 2.

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  1. 2021Controllable deep melody generation via hierarchical music structure representationcited by 30
  2. 2024Whole-Song Hierarchical Generation of Symbolic Music Using Cascaded Diffusion Modelscited by 24
  3. 2022Compose & Embellish: Well-Structured Piano Performance Generation via A Two-Stage Approachcited by 17
  4. 2021Structure-Enhanced Pop Music Generation via Harmony-Aware Learningcited by 11
  5. 2023Structured Multi-Track Accompaniment Arrangement via Style Prior Modellingcited by 9
  6. 2024Motifs, Phrases, and Beyond: The Modelling of Structure in Symbolic Music Generationcited by 6
  7. 2024Structure-informed Positional Encoding for Music Generationcited by 5
  8. 2022Melody Infilling with User-Provided Structural Contextcited by 4
  9. 2021Personalized Popular Music Generation Using Imitation and Structurecited by 3
  10. 2024BandCondiNet: Parallel Transformers-based Conditional Popular Music Generation with Multi-View Featurescited by 2
  11. 2025F-StrIPE: Fast Structure-Informed Positional Encoding for Symbolic Music Generationcited by 2
  12. 2024Efficient Fine-Grained Guidance for Diffusion Model Based Symbolic Music Generationcited by 1
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  1. 2025From Generality to Mastery: Composer-Style Symbolic Music Generation via Large-Scale Pre-trainingcited by 1
  2. 2022Learning Hierarchical Metrical Structure Beyond Measurescited by 0
  3. 2025Synthesizing Composite Hierarchical Structure from Symbolic Music Corporacited by 0
  4. 2025Of All StrIPEs: Investigating Structure-informed Positional Encoding for Efficient Music Generationcited by 0
  5. 2025CompLex: Music Theory Lexicon Constructed by Autonomous Agents for Automatic Music Generationcited by 0
  6. 2025Barwise Section Boundary Detection in Symbolic Music Using Convolutional Neural Networkscited by 0
  7. 2025BACHI: Boundary-Aware Symbolic Chord Recognition Through Masked Iterative Decoding on Pop and Classical Musiccited by 0
  8. 2026D3PIA: A Discrete Denoising Diffusion Model for Piano Accompaniment Generation From Lead sheetcited by 0
  9. 2026Helping Music Co-Creation Agents 'Listen' Well: Hierarchical Self-Supervised World Models for Understanding and Generationcited by 0