This paper is about an ongoing project, Tra-la-Lyrics
which aims to create a computer program capable of gen-
erating lyrics for given melodies. As a preliminary phase,
the correlations between words and rhythm in a song’s
lyrics was studied and some heuristics were achieved. Al-
gorithms for syllabic division and syllabic stress identifi-
cation on a word were implemented. A method for cal-
culating the strength of each beat of a melody was also
used. The actual system’s architecture is described. To get
the contents of the lyrics we’ve used a relational database
where we could find not only the words, but also their
grammatical category and some morphological related at-
tributes. Some ongoing work is also referred and some
examples of the currently possible outputs of the system
are presented. Conclusions and possible further work are
finally discussed.CISU
