From Textural Counterpoint to Feature Encoding: A Multi-Dimensional Machine Representation Study of Haydn's "The Lark" Integrating Electroacoustic Analysis
This study addresses the challenge that existing deep music generation models struggle to perceive the distinct roles of individual voices in polyphonic music. Focusing on Haydn’s “Lark” Quartet, the work integrates auditory analysis, electroacoustic measurement, and machine-based representational reconstruction to establish a mapping from classical contrapuntal structures to computable AI features. It introduces a novel “role-aware encoding” mechanism that abandons conventional quantized grids in favor of event-based timestamps to capture micro-temporal nuances, while transforming acoustic features into phenomenological anchors informed by aesthetic intuition. By combining DAW-based spectral and dynamic analysis, event modeling, and symbolic generation techniques, the research achieves a coherent loop linking classical music analysis, electronic representation, and AI-driven composition, thereby laying a theoretical foundation for human–AI collaborative systems endowed with social awareness and intersubjective musical understanding.