Music Style Transfer: A Position Paper

Understand

Led by the success of neural style transfer on visual arts, there has been a rising trend very recently in the effort of music style transfer.

• However, "music style" is not yet a well-defined concept from a scientific point of view.
• The difficulty lies in the intrinsic multi-level and multi-modal character of music representation (which is very different from image representation).
• As a result, depending on their interpretation of "music style", current studies under the category of "music style transfer", are actually solving completely different problems that belong to a variety of sub-fields of Computer Music.