A practical follow up question: what is currently the largest repertoire of publicly available Lilypond scores? Ideally, something like the complete Bach chorales or Mozart piano sonatas.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:43 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with > GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've had > limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to correctly > structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and appropriately > named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure. It seems to > struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature beyond > extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to understand what > octave pitches will be in when using relative mode. > > It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship > between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it > to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4 > frequently gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated. > This makes it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback. > > I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to > imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond > output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it > needs to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond > format. >
