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Style-Specific Harmonization by Multi-Objective Optimization without Training

Stephanie Y. H. Lew, Wee Kheng Leow and Kat R. Agres

ICNMC 2025

We propose FlexChord, a style-specific harmonization method that generates chords in the required style from as little as a one example piece. It applies direct optimization and avoids the costs of cleaning, annotating and training on large datasets. FlexChord handles both cadence and voice leading, as well as global music structure. Test results show that FlexChord's harmonization is better than those of comparable DNNs and is close to that of human harmonization.