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Neural Translation of Musical Style
Music is an expressive form of communication often used to convey emotion in
scenarios where "words are not enough". Part of this information lies in the
musical composition where well-defined language exists. However, a significant
amount of information is added during a performance as the musician interprets
the composition. The performer injects expressiveness into the written score
through variations of different musical properties such as dynamics and tempo.
In this paper, we describe a model that can learn to perform sheet music. Our
research concludes that the generated performances are indistinguishable from a
human performance, thereby passing a test in the spirit of a "musical Turing
test"
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