Daniels’ Orchestral Music (Book Review)

Book Review: Music, Passion, and Cognitive Function

Live Orchestral Piano, a system for real-time orchestral music generation

This paper introduces the first system performing automatic orchestration from a real-time piano input. We cast this problem as a case of projective orchestration, where the goal is to learn the underlying regularities existing between piano scores and their orchestrations by well-known composers, in order to later perform this task automatically on novel piano inputs. To that end, we investiga...

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ARTHUR: Retrieving Orchestral Music by Long-Term Structure

We introduce an audio retrieval-by-example system for orchestral music. Unlike many other approaches, this system is based on analysis of the audio waveform and does not rely on symbolic or MIDI representations. ARTHUR retrieves audio on the basis of long-term structure, specifically the variation of soft and louder passages. The longterm structure is determined from envelope of audio energy ve...

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