Typesetting Sheet Music with AI
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- #Lilypond
- #Music Theory
- #AI
- Lilypond is a TeX-like typesetting language for sheet music.
- AI can generate Lilypond code, despite the language's obscurity.
- AI-generated Lilypond code for music theory posts has been surprisingly effective.
- Testing AI with sheet music images resulted in poor Lilypond code but good source recognition.
- Grok correctly identified Bach for a classical excerpt but produced incorrect Lilypond code.
- ChatGPT hallucinated two-part harmony for the same classical excerpt.
- For a jazz example, Grok's notes were unrelated but chords were correct, and it identified the song.
- ChatGPT's jazz output had correct chords but altered key, time signature, and note count.
- Grok credited the correct songwriters for the jazz example.
- ChatGPT identified the jazz excerpt as from 'Misty' when asked.