Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

I'm currently using "ChatGPT Mar 14 Version."

Ken

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 5:15 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A practical follow up question: what is currently the largest repertoire of 
> publicly available Lilypond scores? Ideally, something like the complete Bach 
> chorales or Mozart piano sonatas.
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:43 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with 
>> GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've had 
>> limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to correctly 
>> structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and appropriately 
>> named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure. It seems to 
>> struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature beyond 
>> extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to understand what 
>> octave pitches will be in when using relative mode.
>>
>> It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship 
>> between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it 
>> to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4 
>> frequently gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated. 
>> This makes it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback.
>>
>> I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to 
>> imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond 
>> output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it 
>> needs to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond 
>> format.