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AccoMontage-3: Full-Band Accompaniment Arrangement via Sequential Style Transfer and Multi-Track Function Prior
We propose AccoMontage-3, a symbolic music automation system capable of
generating multi-track, full-band accompaniment based on the input of a lead
melody with chords (i.e., a lead sheet). The system contains three modular
components, each modelling a vital aspect of full-band composition. The first
component is a piano arranger that generates piano accompaniment for the lead
sheet by transferring texture styles to the chords using latent chord-texture
disentanglement and heuristic retrieval of texture donors. The second component
orchestrates the piano accompaniment score into full-band arrangement according
to the orchestration style encoded by individual track functions. The third
component, which connects the previous two, is a prior model characterizing the
global structure of orchestration style over the whole piece of music. From end
to end, the system learns to generate full-band accompaniment in a
self-supervised fashion, applying style transfer at two levels of polyphonic
composition: texture and orchestration. Experiments show that our system
outperforms the baselines significantly, and the modular design offers
effective controls in a musically meaningful way