- statement of project goals / work accomplished, ~~~ abstract
- motivation: from perspective of end user of the system
- background: define musical terms, give examiner necessary musical background,
reference literature to explain why these things are difficult;
- metrical structure
- justify musical scope (Western Classical)
- related work: techniques that have been used in this area
- context of work: comparison between MVS and RNN, why is this interesting?
- briefly outline structure of dissertation
- outline core deliverables
- justify all choices:
- describe possible alternative choices in technical detail
- describe MVS and RNN in full detail: diagrams
- choice of tools, libraries
- choice of software engineering strategy
- remember to mention interesting challenges as well as successes http://www.hexahedria.com/2015/08/03/composing-music-with-recurrent-neural-networks/
- compare with numbers from C&W/Pearce/Whorley
Consider: why do we only just get as good numbers (1.87 bits/pitch) as C&W 1995?
- PPM implementation: which escape method did they use?
- We don't implement fermata which the authors do. This is {y,h}uge.
- pathalogical examples!
- cross entropy
- human evaluation
- subjective evaluation (annotated score + cross entropy/time)