Automatically Generate Hymns Using Variational Attention Models

Building an intelligent system for automatically composing music like human beings has been actively investigated during the last decade. In this work, we propose a new approach for automatically creating hymns by training a variational attention model from a large collection of religious songs. We compare our method with two other techniques by using Seq2Seq and attention models and measure the corresponding performance by BLEU-N scores, the entropy, and the edit distance. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a promising performance that is able to give an additional contribution to the current study of music formulation. Finally, we publish our dataset online for further research related to the problem.