arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Vocal Music under Phoneme-Conditional Analysis

arXiv:2608.30823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The vocal music of each language carries a distinctive sonic identity, even without instrumental accompaniment. We ask whether these differences are...

By Hayoon Kim, Kyogu Lee
arXiv AI
Jul 8

From Textural Counterpoint to Feature Encoding: A Multi-Dimensional Machine Representation Study of Haydn's "The Lark" Integrating Electroacoustic Analysis

arXiv:2607. 05902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chamber music, as a highly precise multi-part interactive system, contains a logic of "role assignment and dynamic interaction" that provides an extremely valuable blueprint for exploring human-computer collaborative composition paradigms.

By Yakun Liu, Zhiyu Jin, Hai Luan, Dong Liu, Xiaonan Li
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

Don't CLAP: Are Music-Text Models Bag-of-Words?

The paper evaluates whether music‑text models truly capture fine‑grained musical meaning by introducing attribute‑swap perturbations that exchange properties such as timbre or order between instruments in a caption. Four contrastive models and one large audio‑language model were tested to see if they would score higher on the original caption than on the perturbed one. The results show that none of the contrastive models reliably distinguish the captions, and the audio‑language model’s advantage stems mainly from language priors, indicating that CLAP scores behave like a bag‑of‑words and fail to reflect attribute bindings.

By Yuan-Chiao Cheng, Alexander Lerch