Title
Neural Melody Composition from Lyrics.
Abstract
In this paper, we study a novel task that learns to compose music from natural language. Given the lyrics as input, we propose a melody composition model that generates lyrics-conditional melody as well as the exact alignment between the generated melody and the given lyrics simultaneously. More specifically, we develop the melody composition model based on the sequence-to-sequence framework. It consists of two neural encoders to encode the current lyrics and the context melody respectively, and a hierarchical decoder to jointly produce musical notes and the corresponding alignment. Experimental results on lyrics-melody pairs of 18,451 pop songs demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods. In addition, we apply a singing voice synthesizer software to synthesize the "singing" of the lyrics and melodies for human evaluation. Results indicate that our generated melodies are more melodious and tuneful compared with the baseline method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-32233-5_39
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neural melody composition,Conditional sequence generation
Conference
11838
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.41
References 
Authors
16
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hangbo Bao1183.42
Shaohan Huang25710.29
Furu Wei31956107.57
Lizhen Cui415438.68
Yu Wu511913.36
Chuanqi Tan6311.93
Songhao Piao711.76
Ming Zhou84262251.74