Sulun, SerkanDavies, Matthew E. P.Viana, Paula2023-01-192023-01-192022-04-22S. Sulun, M. E. P. Davies and P. Viana, "Symbolic Music Generation Conditioned on Continuous-Valued Emotions," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 44617-44626, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3169744.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/21681In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued valence and arousal labels. In addition, we provide a new large-scale dataset of symbolic music paired with emotion labels in terms of valence and arousal. We evaluate our approach in a quantitative manner in two ways, first by measuring its note prediction accuracy, and second via a regression task in the valence-arousal plane. Our results demonstrate that our proposed approaches outperform conditioning using control tokens which is representative of the current state of the art.engDeep LearningSymbolic Music GenerationEmotion-Based Music GenerationTransformersjournal article10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3169744