5. Music Composition Assistance

Presumably, LLM as an assistant for music composition would share many properties with LLMs as an assistant for writing. So, I shamelessly replace this section with this paper: [IYCB22].

..Since that feels overly shameless, here are some recent progress in using LLMs for composition. These are all about the symbolic domain and notations.

• ChatMusician [YLW+24]

  • MusicPile: 4B-token music-language corpora

  • MusicTheoryBench: Curated college-level music understanding benchmark

  • A LLaMA2-finetuned model “ChatMusician” that can understand and generate ABC notation

• ComposerX [DYY+24]

  • GPT-4 with various prompting methods to create melody and harmony / to review and revise / to finalize the composition.

• SongComposer [DLD+24]

  • Lyric-to-melody generation by finetuning an open-sourced LM.

• ByteComposer [LLD24]

• A workflow consists of conception analysis - drafting - self-evaluation - final selection