MELONS: generating melody with long-term structure using transformers and structure graph

Understand

The creation of long melody sequences requires effective expression of coherent musical structure.

• However, there is no clear representation of musical structure.
• Recent works on music generation have suggested various approaches to deal with the structural information of music, but generating a full-song melody with clear long-term structure remains a challenge.
• In this paper, we propose MELONS, a melody generation framework based on a graph representation of music structure which consists of eight types of bar-level relations.