Solving the Bach puzzle: profiling and authenticating authorship in art

Data collection: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~thickstn/musicnet.html

Questions that can be answered:

Music information retrieval

  • Automatic music transcription
  • Inferring a musical score from a recording
  • Generative models that can fabricate performances under various constraints
  • Can we learn to synthesize a performance given a score?
  • Can we generate a fugue in the style of Bach using a melody by Brahms?

Analytics

  • Identify the notesperformed at specific times in a recording
  • Classify the instrumentsthat perform in a recording
  • Classify the composerof a recording
  • Identify precise onsettimes of the notes in a recording
  • Predict the next notein a recording, conditioned on history