Modeling Baroque Two-Part Counterpoint with Neural Machine Translation. (arXiv:2006.14221v4 [cs.SD] UPDATED)

We propose a system for contrapuntal music generation based on a Neural
Machine Translation (NMT) paradigm. We consider Baroque counterpoint and are
interested in modeling the interaction between any two given parts as a mapping
between a given source material and an appropriate target material. Like in
translation, the former imposes some constraints on the latter, but doesn't
define it completely. We collate and edit a bespoke dataset of Baroque pieces,
use it to train an attention-based neural network model, …

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