Learning Music Style for Piano Arrangement Through Cross-Modal Bootstrapping
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arXiv:2608.03050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is music style? Though often described using text labels such as "swing," "classical," or "emotional," the real style remains implicit and hidden in concrete music examples. In this paper, we introduce a cross-modal framework that learns implicit music styles from raw audio and applies them to symbolic music generation. Inspired by BLIP-2, our model leverages a Querying Transformer (Q-Former) to extract style representations from a large, pre-trained audio language model (LM), and further applies them to condition a symbolic LM for generat
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- arXiv:2608.03050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is music style?
- Though often described using text labels such as "swing," "classical," or "emotional," the real style remains implicit and hidden in concrete music examples.
- In this paper, we introduce a cross-modal framework that learns implicit music styles from raw audio and applies them to symbolic music generation.
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