Pop Piano Music Generation with the Simplified Transformer-XL

Pop piano music is generated by deep learning methods in this paper. The model we used is a simplified Transformer-XL, which removes the mask module from Transformer-XL. The simplified Transformer-XL enables the generated music to have a better integrity. Subsequently, professionals and non-professionals are invited to evaluate the generated music based on a subjective evaluation algorithm. The evaluation results show that the simplified Transformer-XL can generate pop piano music with good effect.